Professional Bull Riding

Now for anyone reading this, if you were like me a few months ago, you didn't know much about Professional Bull Riding. Well, the story for me has changed! Jeremy and his cousin Derek and become almost ridiculously obsessed with PBR. It's amazing how quickly they got into this and at this point, all I can do is smile and laugh :) I'd rather Jeremy be obsessed with this than other things I guess...

So onto our trip to Iowa to watch the PBR! I get the joy of watching PBR two nights of the weekend and the weekend of May 7th and 8th we road tripped it to Des Moines with Derek to experience it for ourselves.

As much as I've been making fun of it, it was actually a pretty cool experience and fun to watch in person. It is such a dangerous sport and I can't believe how close to serious injury the riders can be when they fall off!

Jeremy and I before heading into the stadium. Only two pictures with the good camera as they wouldn't let me bring a "professional" camera inside :(

Jeremy and Derek.

Somebody riding a bull...wish I could tell who.

After the PBR, we went to a bar called Miss Kitty's were a handful of the bull riders showed up! Derek had the guts to walk up and ask for the first picture with one of them and then we followed :)

Me with Luke Synder - for anyone who knows anything about PBR, he was the last cowboy standing this year!

Jeremy with Luke Synder.

Me with J.B. Mauney - he's a stud rider.

Our first PRB experience was fun and the boys are already planning the next trip. It's too bad they didn't go to the cities so we wouldn't have to drive so far! At least it looks like the next closet one is in Milwaukee. If anyone is bored this weekend you can catch the PBR on Versus. :)

Let's Dish

Last night I went up to the cities with two of my friends from work to go to a place called Let's Dish. Let's Dish is a meal preparation store. So what you do is pre-order the meals you want to make before you go and then when you get there, you prepare the meals you order and someone else cleans up the mess for you!

They have little stations set up throughout the store and they have all the ingredients lined out and the recipe right there for you to follow. You put all the meals together in either freezer zip lock bags or tin pans and then put them right in the freezer when you get home! There is little work to do once you are going to cook the meals and I can't wait to try one :)

I ordered 8 meals and got a free dessert!! The meals make 6 servings so being that it's just the two of us, I cut each one in half making 16 meals!!
Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Stuffed with Mexican Cream Cheese
Chicken Empanadas
Parmesan Chicken Fingers with Waffle Fries and Seasoned Sour Cream
Pecan Crusted Tilapia
Beef Lo Mein
Herbed Flank Steak with Blue Cheese Butter
Baked Ravioli Lasagna with Garlic Toast
Bourbon BBQ Pork Tenderloin with Spoonbread
Sopapilla Cheesecake

I think I might start with the Beef Lo Mein next week!! It was so fun putting all the meals together and if the food is as good as I think it's going to be, I'll be going back again!

Circus Juventas

Last weekend we took a trip up to the cities to watch my cousin's Sammy and Mandy at Circus Juventas. Circus Juventas is a performing arts circus school for youth. It's kind of like Cirque du Soleil, which I would love to see someday!

My cousin Mandy is in two acts, Globes and Unicycle and Sammy is in Vault-Mini Tramp. The whole show was around 20 acts and I am still in awe of the things these people can do and how their bodies can bend!

Mandy on the globes.

Jump ropping on the globe.

Sammy on the mini-tramp.

Sammy again on the trampoline.

Mandyon her unicycle.

More unicycling.

One of my favorite acts - Triangle Trapeze.

Jeremy and I with the girls.

I can't wait to go see the girls perform again!

Easter Weekend

We went back to Eau Claire for Easter weekend and spent the weekend with Jeremy's family. It had been about three months since we'd been in Eau Claire so Maple and Maya (Jessica & Tony's dog) finally got to meet! They spent the weekend playing together and getting to know each other. Maple was a little protective of her space but I think once they see each other a couple more times they should be best friends!

Saturday night we went out for pizza and took Maple, Maya and Cali to the dog park. They had a blast running around and playing with each other!

Walking at the dog park.

Maple and Maya running around!

Maple and Maya with toys on Easter.

Maya.

Cali.

Jeremy and I.

We hope everyone had a Happy Easter!