Museum, First Snow, and Weekend Getaway

Finally catching up on the blog...just in time for Dave's birthday and the holidays!  Can't believe he is going to be 6, ugh.  Anyway, our last two weekends were jam-packed but super fun.  Starting with this weekend, when we went to our local museum for a fun day and experienced our first snow of the year!

Ike dressed up like a cowboy.


















The big boys hanging out in the tree.










After the museum, we went to Pizza Hut to redeem Dave's book-it pizza.  Love that this program is still going on!





Before we left in the morning-first flakes beginning to fall.  All the kids were trying to catch them.















About 3 hours later.  And it's still coming down!

Ike helping shovel the driveway  :)













So last weekend, Josh and I went away with our friends Katie and Conrad to stay at Josh's uncle's cabin in Wisconsin.  We had super great weather and ate our way through Lake Geneva!  While we were away, my mom came to stay with the kids and they did lots of stuff, but the most fun they had was seeing my stepbrothers perform at their band competition in Indy.





Justin, Dave, Ike, and Tim.












With my mom outside of Lucas Oil.


















They even got to put on the cool hats!

From a hike we took in Wisconsin.  Beautiful scenery and I love aspens.

Proof of our hike.  It was super confusing trying to find this!

Just Ike being cute while I was putting up the Christmas lights last week.

Halloween 2015...Who is Nabbit?

We had so much fun with Halloween this year!  If you can't tell, we went as Mario characters.  Dave, of course, picked one of the more obscure characters (nabbit) and pretty much no one knew who he was!

Dave loooooved his costume!

Wario hanging with nabbit and Luigi.

















I received lots of compliments from little girls about my costume...I won't lie, it was super fun to dress like a princess :)

Good news, the shark didn't eat Luigi.

Ike cheesing out before our campus trunk-or-treat.  Here's a video of him talking about Halloween.

Ike with Elli-loved her mermaid costume.

The white's staff kids crew.  We have quite a big group nowadays.

Evansville for Fall Break and Other Happenings

We had a lot of fun down in Evansville for Dave's fall break.  Got to help my mom with some stuff, then went pumpkin patch-ing with Dad and Kyra on Saturday and spent all day Sunday at Ben and Tony's eating and watching football!

Gotta love a good hay ride.

Ike doing some pumpkin picking.














Last weekend, Josh and I took the kids to Brickworld in Fort Wayne.  It was a super awesome Lego exhibit that had vendors and you could play with cool stuff people had built.

Dave was only a tiny bit excited.















Ike showing off his creation with some Duplos.  He may have gotten into a fight with another kid over some figures...

Playing with some cool remote-controlled cars.












On Friday, Dave got to get out of school early to go laser-tagging with some cottage boys.  Lucky kid!

Playing arcade games at the laser tag place.

And here's Ike being his adorable self.













I will say, the time change is really wrecking the moods in our household!  Ready for the kids to get used to it so we all can get some better sleep (and have less grouches around!).   I can't believe it is November already, this year has really flown past.  We are definitely taking advantage of this awesome weather and playing outside all week...gonna be a hard transition to winter for the kiddos this year!