I love a good ballet and I am blessed to have a husband that appreciates the art. Over the weekend Ian and I got dressed up, dined out at a ritzy restaurant (treating ourselves with a gift card we received for our wedding) and attended the Cinderella ballet. The stepsisters were played by men and they stole the show! I never thought I would be at a ballet laughing until my stomach hurt – but this performance really proved me wrong!

Since the ballet was in Milwaukee Ian and I decided to make a weekend out of it! We caught up with a good college friend and visited the Milwaukee Art Museum. Since the main museum building is closed for renovations we got artsy at the craft stations. Yes, they were geared towards children, but we shared a lot of laughs and made a few art pieces for our fridge.

I hope you all have a great Memorial Day weekend! Have any fun plans? Share them bellow!

{Pretty blooms outside the art museum}

{Debated getting a salad…but the french toast won}

{Playing around with letterpress at the art museum}

It’s finally farmers market season! Ian and I squeezed in a trip to the Madison farmers market on the Square last weekend. It was so nice to be back in our college town. As we walked from vendor to vendor we bumped into old friends and loaded up on plants for our mini balcony garden. Hopefully we will have better luck with our garden than last year!

I hope you all have a great weekend!

What a rollercoaster week! Ian and I acted like giddy school kids who were off for the summer and tooled around town on our bikes. The weather was perfect at the beginning of the week and we just wanted to soak it all in. We went up to Door County to play tourist and go hiking at Peninsula State park then drove into town for a wine tasting. I remember thinking how blessed we were to enjoy such a beautiful memory together – then I heard of a shooting on the radio.

I’m lucky to live in small, safe town where most people only complain about the five-minute back up at the round-a-bouts during “rush” hour. But this week things were different. A shooter took the lives of three innocent people while they were out enjoying the nice weather, just like Ian and I had been. It was a scary reminder that life is precious and even in the safest place – darkness can live.

While I wanted to hide away, constantly thinking about the victims, I was inspired by the people out on the bike path the next day enjoying the life they are lucky enough to live. They did not let the fear of the unknown rule their life. I hope I can gain their courage to follow in their example.

With this weekend being Mothers Day, make sure to give your loved ones a big hug and I hope you all have a happy and safe weekend.