My new love...

My new love is my Kindle! What a great invention. I didn't get into reading until college and over the past three years I haven't been able to do a lot of leisurely reading due to the amount of insurance knowledge I've been cramming into my brain, but with the end of my CPCU exams on the horizon, I asked for a Kindle for my birthday.

As you can already tell, I LOVE it. I got it two weeks ago and I've already read three books! I first read Water for Elephants (amazing) followed by Emily Griffin's first two books that a related to each other, Something Borrowed and Something Blue. Book good books! I've purchased her third book, Baby Proof and I'm debating whether to start it and read it quick within the next week or start studying for my next test and hold off reading it until afterwards...it's a tough decision but I think Baby Proof is going to prevail over Insurance Operations. :)

If anyone has any good book suggestions, I would love to hear them! Like I said, I haven't done much reading in the past three years and before that I mostly read Nicholas Sparks books with a few others thrown in now and again, so any favorite authors or books would be great to hear!

Also, if anyone has been contemplating purchasing one of these e-readers, I would be in favor of it! You won't be sorry :)

Happy Fourth of July!

We spent Fourth of July weekend in Chetek at the cabin. Other than a little rain and a thunderstorm on Friday night, the weather couldn't have been better! I feel like I'm finally starting to some color on my skin and summer seems to be half over already :(

Saturday I spent the day on the pontoon with Jeremy's cousin's, aunt's and uncle and grandma while he helped his dad work on the cabin. I did a poor job of taking pictures this weekend (probably because I was too busy reading on my kindle) but here are a couple from our tubing excursion!

Jayne was struggling to get up on the tube with Cole but she made it up there and afterwards I joined her for a ride.

Drea and I before going tubing.


Sunday we made the jaunt down to Eau Claire for Jenny and Storm's wedding. What a beautiful day for a wedding! Again...horrible at taking pictures this weekend. I didn't have my nice camera with me and I just couldn't get a good shot of them! Either way, Jenny was a gorgeous bride and I loved the color combination they had. Plus she had some amazing shoes on! :)

Sunday night we were able to watch some fire works over the lake and made smores over the campfire! We had some of those enormous marshmallows, but they were way to big for a smore, I stuck with the normal sized ones.

Our actual fourth of July wasn't kind of quiet. Jeremy and I went boating with Derek all afternoon and then we headed home. We got home and unpacked but treated ourselves to a little ice cream treat from the blast :) Sadly we didn't watch any fireworks...we were both a little tired from the weekend and we couldn't see them from our house.