Officially Wisconsinites

This Memorial Day weekend marked the official two year anniversary of our time in Wisconsin.  Andrew was the one who moved us here and he was the last one to get WI plates and actually register his truck here.  Seriously?  I've been rocking the WI plates for a year now and he FINALLY did it.
Although my driver's license, my license plates, and my address say that I live in Wisconsin, I will always be from Illinois.  And I would be lying if I said I didn't miss it!

Andrew and I went back to our parents' houses this weekend for a friend's graduation party.  We also had a 12 mile walk to complete as well as a 7 mile walk.  So I had 19 miles of thinking and pondering.  We walked the Fox Valley River Trail and it made me think about how much I miss it.  How much I miss being in Geneva.  So here are my random thoughts for 19 miles:


What I miss about IL/Geneva:

• Living close to my family
• Living close to my high school and college friends (Not a surprise that we were the only ones who moved to WI)
•  My IL license plate.  It looked so much cooler than these WI plates.
• The Fox Valley River Trail.  I love walking by the river (and everyone else did this morning too)
• My favorite kiddos to babysit
• Swedish Days! It's total nostalgia 
• The Christmas Walk
• Meijer: Grocery stores around here don't even come close
• Having 3 Super Targets in a 5 mile radius
• Randall Road: Seriously, every store that I could want to go to is on that road
• Von Maur
• My rollerblading buddies
• Brookfield Zoo

What I don't miss about IL/Geneva:

• Randall Road: It's a pain in the butt when it's busy, and that road is always busy
• Swedish Days: I love the thought of it, but that's about it.  Want to drive down State Street in the end of June?  Good luck.  Want to find a parking spot in downtown Geneva, ha!  
• High taxes
• High gas prices

 However, IL is lacking a lot of the awesome things that WI has to offer:

• Dane County Farmers' Market
• Amazing friends
• My beautiful house
• Baby Maddie (we adopted her at the Dane County Humane Society)
• Awesome trails
• Lower gas prices
• EPIC: Andrew loves working there and it is seriously amazing

All in all, I really can't complain.  I have a lot to be thankful for and I'm enjoying WI.  And this is coming from the girl who vowed that she would always live in IL.

And we had such an exciting weekend at Gma and Gpa's, that we slept the whole way home...