Friday, August 19, 2016

Dave Goes to First Grade

How is it possible that we have a 1st grader?  Ahhhhh.  Life passes so quickly at times.  Dave was super pumped to begin this school year with some of his good friends in his class.  His teacher is Miss Hacker and Dave is very excited to get learning!








Gotta pose with his fancy sign.






Ike stole the sign.







Cuteness overload.













Dave is such a crazy, interesting kid at this point in his life.  He loves playing video games (especially Minecraft and any Lego game), building and playing with his extensive Lego sets, playing with his buddies, watching countless YouTube videos, and pestering Ike.  He and I are so alike we constantly butt heads on everything, which is funny and exasperating all at the same time.  Dave and Ike will be the sweetest, most adoring brothers one second, and then the next wrestling on the floor (with Ike usually pinning Dave since Ike almost outweighs him).

He loves to read and listen to all kinds of music, but usually whatever Josh is into at the moment.  Of course Pokemon Go is very popular in our house and he loves to hunt the Pokemon with our neighbor, Auggie and with my mom.  Or really anyone who has Pokemon Go on their phone...he's not super picky if I'm being honest!

He says he wants to be a police officer when he grows up, but I definitely see a future in engineering of some kind for him.  Time will tell I guess.  Just as long as he isn't still living with us playing video games when he's grown!  :)  Here's a video of Dave going over some of his favorite stuff right now. 






Ice cream time with his friend Alec before school started.







My big kid at his desk on orientation night!





Ike posing with the treats Dave's teacher brought in.  I'm pretty sure he sampled all of them.

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Quick Evansville Trip

we decided to make one more summer trip to Evansville before Dave started school.  As a bonus, my Aunt Keri and Uncle Steve came to visit from Kansas!  I didn't take many pictures, but here is what I have!

Grandpa Dave had us over for dinner and Ike had to get a little pre-dinner work done.




Mowing great-grandpa's yard.









We planned to visit the 4-H fair but it rained and rained, so we met Uncle Tony at SkyZone, which is always a favorite with the kids.







Cheesin.








Dave being all casual.






Josh dunking.  He may or may not have injured his thumb with this move.  :)















Tony and Uncle Steve poolside.






Grillin!  Dad made an awesome brisket.  Mmmmm.



The boys on a Gamma Date to McDs for breakfast!














Poor fella started feeling sickly at the end of our trip and took at least 2 naps on the day we came home!















As always, it was great to see everybody in Evansville!