Mad Ants Game

As part of the boys' Christmas presents we bought them tickets to watch the Fort Wayne Mad Ants (an NBA g-league team). Dave is a huuuuge basketball fan right now, and we figured Ike would get into it. We had so much fun! The game was a little rough at first (they were down by 23 points), but they ended up pulling off a win. Definitely would go watch again. Much cheaper option than seeing the Pacers and we had awesome seats.

Posing before the game. I found those jerseys on Ebay!

Ike and grandpa. Josh's parents came with us.

Ike was a little obsessed with the cheerleaders.

Playing some games in the kid section.

At any given point Ike always knew where the Mad Ant mascot was. We finally spotted him near enough to get a picture!












Ike was much more interested in the extra stuff happening than the actual game. Dave loved watching the players and I think appreciated the game. Win for all of us for sure! Can't wait to check them out again :)

Christmas 2017

We had a nice, relaxing Christmas this year. Lots of visitors, presents, and snow! Josh worked on Christmas day so we spent a lot of time with the cottage-we all went to see a movie which was fun.

Posing in their jammies on Christmas Eve.
















Working on the gingerbread house.  They mostly just ate the candy though. Typical.







Dad and Kyra came to visit the week before Christmas. They packed their van up and went on a grand tour delivering presents through Indiana and down into Florida! I was very jealous of their final warm destination :) 

Cuteness!

Helping grandpa make dessert.















Dad made the cottage a ham for us to eat on Christmas which was great. The guys really appreciated having a home-cooked meal since they were away from home! 


After Dad and Kyra headed along, we had a family get-together with the Sievers side over in Logansport. Josh's aunt Veronica made a couple hilarious present opening games that everybody had fun with. Of course we ate a great dinner and just hung out otherwise.

Josh with Miranda and Ike.

Divana and Dave teaming up.

I can't remember what Ike was acting out in charades but he sure thought he was being funny!














Christmas morning we got the kids up early to open presents because Josh had to leave to take students home at 8.

Ready for presents.










Dave liked his electronic basketball hoop for over his door best and Ike's favorite gift was his Nintendo 2DS. He's been wanting one since Dave got one last year!

After Christmas, Gamma and Justin came up for a couple of nights. Her big present for the boys was new bikes. She let them go pick them out themselves which they really loved.

Red and black for Dave and Ike's looks like a dirt bike. A couple of happy campers.

So adorable!











Well that about wraps of Christmas. Another fun year of watching the boys open presents! We survived Winter Break (barely) but have had several snow days since...we are all ready for some warmer weather soon!

Fun in the Snow!

We were very excited to have a White Christmas this year! The boys loved playing in it and were able to do some sledding with the neighbor kids until it got too cold out.

























Ike used his lawnmower as a snow blower. Not quite as effective, but fun nonetheless.

You can see we got quite a bit of it!

One of our neighbors came over to pull the kids behind his four wheeler!

Playing with Sean and the Cline girls.

Snowflake selfie.

Trying to get a jump on all the shoveling.

It was so pretty! I am definitely ready for it to be gone now though :)













It has finally started to melt after a week or so in subzero temperatures last week. I did see we may be getting another snowstorm this weekend though...after 50 degree temps on Thursday. Gotta love Indiana!