This weekend was a river weekend. We had a family trip on a sandbar on the Mississippi. Here's a few pics from our excursion. 
Less than 2 months to go for Baby Wyatt... Britt's ready! The little tumbler is really active. I can feel my little soccer player kickin around at any time of the day. As Britt says (real quotes), "I think he's over 8 pounds already." "I think he's bruising my ribs." "Oh my gosh, I can't breathe he's so big." 
mess right now since we have been soooo busy this summer. It's classified as a "cape-cod" home. It has a full (unfinished) basement, 2 bedrooms upstairs (master, and Ettoile's) 2 bedrooms on the main level (one is the office/guest room, and the other is a walk through room, right now it's the toy/play room, with a sliding glass door to our large 3 season porch with a small wood 
deck built off of the porch). There's a detached 2 car garage facing the alley (most homes in La Crosse have an alley) and a nice sized yard with a garden plot in the back as well where we have a sweeeeet garden! I have no idea the square footage, I think it's around 1700 sq ft+/-. The kitchen, bathroom (yep only one bathroom), and family room are also on the main level. Overall it's small but so stinkin cute. We're very happy with our home and the size is just right for us. Britt and I re-did the landscaping in the front, before there were overgrown/ unkept nasty bushes kind of like the woody pine like bushes that have pricklys and are really dusty. I dug out the bushes and yanked them out with 
the jeep. We then got some very nice healthy dirt from the city yard waste plant (for free) and most of the plants were either transplanted by me from around the house or were transplanted from Brittany's Mom's house. So basically it was a next to free landscape job and I think that it turned out pretty good. There's also a birch tree in the front yard, my favorite. We also did the landscaping around the garage (there was nothing before but half dead grass). We're pretty proud of our hard work. Like I said, I'll try to get some interior pics up soon, probably after we clean up on some saturday and I'll also get some pics of my sweeeet garden. So we got this puppy for only 105k. It was assessed @ 120k by the bank before we did any work to it inside or out and we all know 
that the bank always low-balls it. SOOO, talk about buying for less than renting. Our neighbors house is for sale for 135k and is pretty similar but with some updating to do, so we think we got an excellent deal. The elderly guy passed away and his kids were just trying to sell it... they took our offer which was lower than another offer because they wanted it to go to a family and not some single older guy. Anyways, our neighborhood is pretty mixed... but mostly either retired or young couples like us. With the guest room we'll be expecting y'all to come visit soon! Love y'all!We've started Etty on the potty. We sing the potty song every night right before bath time and she gets a little chocolate if she goes in the potty. It would be nice to have her trained before baby Wyatt so we only have one kid in diapers... I don't think we'll have any such luck...
