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matt, wendy, jumi, bill, katie and i went to las vegas for the weekend. it was the greatest trip ever, apart from all the other greatest trips ever. here's the travel journal!

we'd been so busy and traveling so much over the summer, i wanted to do something fun and stupid for my birthday. so we went to the leinenkugel's brewery, and then went bar-hopping in eau claire, wisconsin. it was so much fun.

matt, wendy, willis and i went to chicago to see a cubs game, and milwaukee to see a brewers game. we also managed to get up to a lot of hijinx in the non-baseball hours.read the travel journal here!

i've wanted to go to the safe house in milwaukee ever since i first heard about it from my parents, who used to go there 35 years ago. we had such a great time.

every year for the past few years, we've adopted families from the aliveness project and bought and wrapped gifts for them. we're supposed to spend $35/person, so everybody pitches in that amount and we adopt one person per participant. the aliveness project supplies us with sheets telling us ...  read more

first camping trip of the year! me, matt, cindi, wendy, amelia, bill, katie, and their friends eric and erin for a day. we had such an awesome time: went canoeing, played bocce, burnt all our food over the fire, had a dance party on the picnic table, and sat around playing cards and laughing til ...  read more