Halloween 2017

Halloween this year was pretty uneventful, which was really great! We did a lap around campus with all the staff kids and cottages and families who live on campus handed out candy. Perfection.

Ike went as black panther and he got his fancy costume for his birthday. He loves dressing up still so money well spent! Dave wanted to be Deathstroke (yet another obscure costume) so we had to come up with a homemade version for him! A sweatsuit, orange duct tape, and a dollar ninja mask that I spray painted and he was all set.







They look so cute without their masks.



















And now they just look menacing.

The whole squad ready to trick or treat.














Ike and Kyson, so cute!

With Lewis and Sam.
















Showing off their candy haul! They got so much candy...we just finished the last of it.







I say it all the time, but I'm so thankful for the awesome community we have here at White's. Such a great place to raise our family!!

Evansville Trip for Gil and Allie's Wedding

Over fall break, we spent a long weekend in Evansville which ended with the celebration of Gil and Allie's wedding! We love spending time with family and this trip was great because we had way more time than normal and were able to do some fun activities too!







Great-grandpa stopping by with Donut Bank of course!













Dave has been really into playing football lately, so he made sure to bring his ball with us.

The kid definitely has a good arm!















The local ice rink has open skating for $5 on a couple weekday mornings, so we decided to try it out. Whew, that was rough! I don't think I've skated for 15 years! Once I remembered how to skate again it went a lot better...halfway through the first lap I was sure we were going to have to quit.  We ended up getting pretty decent by the end!








Josh said he'd only been ice skating once before. I believed it! :)


















I was trying to get a picture with the ice and our skates. Almost.

Ike is in constant motion! Half the pictures I take of him anymore are blurry.












 After ice skating we went over to my grandpa's to check out all his toys. It was a beautiful day outside and the kids always love running around his yard. Dave brought his football so we played catch, did some lawn more rides, and I even drove the four wheeler around!

Ike doing some more mowing with my dad. He's spoiled rotten!

Cute picture with Grandma Kyra. Ike's such a stinker!

The kids had some rainy day fun at Walther's with Uncle Tony and Josh. Laser Tag, mini golf, arcades...what else could be better?

Wedding time!















Dave was a ring bearer in the wedding, so we just dressed both kids up in the fancy attire. The cute bow ties are courtesy of my aunt Claudia. She makes all kinds of awesome stuff, you should totally check out her etsy site! The wedding was beautiful and really cold! We bundled up and they had hand warmers so it was all good. Dave will not stop talking about how good the food was...best mashed potatoes and gravy he's ever had apparently. He definitely loves some taters!

We sure clean up nice!

Before the rehearsal dinner.

Ike and Uncle Tony were twinning.

Grandpa Dave Sievers' 80th Birthday!

Josh's grandpa Dave celebrated his 80th birthday in October and the family came together to throw him a surprise party! We met up at his sister's assisted living home (which was really nice!) and proceeded to get everything ready before he came downstairs.

The kids enjoyed playing on the stage as we set up.















We were waiting patiently for the elevators to open so we could start singing Happy Birthday!

He was super surprised!

Brooklyn sure loves Grandma Mary!

The kids sneaking away to play with their electronics.

His sisters are a hoot!

Cousins picture.

Added the spouses in!

Brooklyn was tired of having her picture taken so Grandma D was making her annoyed look along with her!

Look at this cute couple!

Mom and daughters.

Veronica enjoyed photobombing this picture.



















It was a wonderful day to celebrate a great man!  So glad everybody was able to come together to make his day special, and it was great to see lots of people we don't see very often and awesome to meet lots of Josh's family that I hadn't met yet!

Fall Visit with the Smith Family

The Smiths came up to enjoy a lovely Indiana fall and to celebrate Grandpa Dave's 80th birthday.  The birthday post will be later...don't wan to put too many pictures in one post! 

While they were here we did lots of fun stuff!  The kids had multiple sleepovers, we went to the Battle of 1812, the grownups went on a date night (with grandma and grandpa babysitting!), and we had the big birthday bash.  Here are a whole lot of pictures from the week!

We spent a lot of time outside trying to enjoy the last bit of warm weather before winter! The Smiths all enjoyed it since they don't get to experience fall weather down in Florida.

Lots of football was played!

Ike and Zac bonded over running down the big hill.

Our boys love the 1812 battle out at Mississinewa, and the Smiths had never been so we all went out to have some snacks and watch the battle.

Dave held my camera on the way in.

I tried so hard to get a decent group picture...

Watching the river battle.

Ike and Zac doing some chopping.














The kids all loved hanging out at Barry and Divana's new property.  Golf cart rides, playing with the 4 wheeler and power wheels, what's not to love?

Riding with grandma. 

On Saturday we had Grandpa Dave's surprise party, but since we didn't know about it we had a get together planned for Sunday to throw him off figuring it out.  We had to move the gathering indoors because of the weather, so everybody came to our house!







Still celebrating the birthday boy! 

Aunt Gayle joined us and Sophie photobombed.

Zac snuggling with grandma.

Waiting on a train to pass so we could walk to the park.

Ready to catch that football!















Walking home.

They sure are a cute bunch!