Monday, February 26, 2018

Florida 2018-Orlando

Last Tuesday we headed down to Indy and flew to sunny Florida.




Waiting to board.






We weren't seated together initially, so they stuck us in the very back row...without windows. Ike's face says it all.






Further proof of our windowless row.














Ike and I went to get the luggage while Josh and Dave went to retrieve our rental car.









Ike plopped down right by the emergency stop button for the luggage conveyor. That doesn't make a mom nervous or anything.





We ended up with a convertible!








First stop on our trip was to hang out with the Smiths in Orlando.









Zac and Dave.





The other kids had to go to school in the morning, so the boys hung out with Brooklyn.


















Josh took the boys to a serpentarium near their house while I chilled poolside.





Pool time with the cousins.



Arriving in style.


Dinner with Brit and Chad for Valentine's Day!



Ready for Legoland!








I'll post about Legoland and our Nokomis visit with Josh's grandparents in a separate post. After we visited the gulf side, we came back for one more night in Orlando before flying back to Indiana.




These kids are too cute.



Josh with all the kids minus Brooklyn who still doesn't like him. :)



Fajitas!






These two crack me up. They look so much alike and were even twinning with their shorts.



Finishing up the trip by watching Wonder together.







Such great memories with the kids. We look forward to our Florida trip every year but it gets more fun each time because the kids are so excited to see their cousins!

Friday, February 2, 2018

January Activities

We had a pretty busy January. Dave started basketball at the YMCA and Ike has been working on piano lessons. Not sure he's going to keep taking them...we may pick back up this summer. His concentration game is not strong currently :)






Ike and Josh working on piano skills.










The boys with Kyson and Gabe. They've spent lots of time playing basketball on Dave's new hoop.





In between some pretty horrible weather, we've had a couple of really nice days. The boys got to really test out their new wheels on one of those glorious 50 degree days.




Meanwhile I got stuck carrying their stuff over. Life of a mom...machine gun, football, and reading material.







Since we've had what feels like a million snow days (really I think it's been three so far), Dave has had lots of e-learning days this month. We have one coming up on Monday and then the last one in two weeks while we're in Florida. Glory be, we are so close to vacation!







Reading some books to try to get Ball State basketball tickets.


















We took the boys out of school to go to the circus with the cottage kids.







Ike cheesing out at Dave's basketball game.






Dave with his buddy Alec after the game.






Showing off our new hat and scarf that we got from Aunt Em.






Ike was super pumped to get takeout from the cafeteria for lunch. Mmmm lasagna.












So that wraps up January! Lots of fun to come in February-Florida and Josh's parents got us tickets to Legoland!! The kids are beyond excited.