We had SUCH a busy weekend. It was fun having my mom here, but so exhausting! We were busy non-stop. When I woke up this morning to take her back to the airport (at 5:30 am) I felt like I was in a trance.
My mom was able to get a good feel the for the city while she was here and loved it. It helped that the weather has been absolutely perfect for the last 5 days.
Enjoying the Beer Garden at Capital Brewery on the last night it was open for the season.
We got out and went to a lot of Madison events while we were here. Saturday was a really busy day. We started out at the Farmer's Market and then took Mom for a tour of the Capitol. I had never been up to the observation deck and it has amazing views of the city, so that was kind of cool. We also ran into a friend of mine while we were at the Capitol. I didn't know it, but in his spare time he works part time at the Capitol as a security guard. He's lived in Wisconsin his entire life and thinks Madison is the greatest city ever, so he was thrilled to educate my mom about the city. He also took us on a secret tour up to the very top of the Capitol, which was very cool.
Up on the observation deck, mom was a little squished!
Sunday we took mom to church and then had lunch with some friends that were in town from St. Louis afterwards. We had Chris & Christina over for dinner so Mom could meet Liliana for the first time. Mom had a blast playing with her!

Monday rolled around and it was time to party! Some of our friends from Madison and our friends from St. Louis all met up at our house and then we headed to Milwaukee to see the Brewers take on the Cardinals. We went up early to tailgate and it was so much fun! We had about 14 in our group and only 3 were rooting for the Brewers!
Don't know what's up with the look on my face, I guess it was cause I was hanging out with the wrong fans (love you Nich & Sarah)!
I was so surprised to see how many other Cardinal's fans were at the game, literally probably about 1/3 of the people at the game were rooting for the good ol' Cards, which made me very happy! Check out Steve's HIDEOUS sunglasses! He refuses to get rid of these things!
All in all it was a great weekend, although it left me feeling exhausted and unprepared for the week ahead of me. My mom had a great time, so that's all that really mattered to me! We took lots of pictures that are all on my Flickr page for your viewing pleasure!
I've loved having so many visitors this summer, but I am ready for a little rest. Literally almost every weekend this summer we've either had someone here visiting us or been somewhere visiting them and it really is quite exhausting! As far as I know we won't have anyone coming to visit for at least another month, so hopefully that will give us some time to recuperate from our busy summer and get back into the swing of life a little bit.