The Rest of Spring Break and Easter

The rest of the week of spring break we just hung out at home and I tried to get some stuff purged for our upcoming move. The weather wasn't the most cooperative but we made the most of it!

I babied along my seedlings. They still aren't doing the best now that I've planted them in the gardens but they are still alive so I'm hoping they turn around!

Ben came over for a sleepover. We always love hosting him!

The next big event was Barry's 60th birthday! Brit and fam surprised him and all came up to have dinner, such a nice evening.

Dave's really been working on his culinary skills. He often makes himself and Ike breakfast sandwiches in the morning-it's great!

Campus hosted a big Easter egg hunt again this year-so many kids came out for it and it they all got tons of candy!

The boys and two of the Chellis crew. 

And finally a super early morning family portrait! We went to the sunrise service at church on Easter and man I was tired!

 

Evansville for Spring Break

For the beginning of spring break we headed to Evansville for a long weekend. Rob's kids were in town too so the boys got to see their cousins...we hadn't seen them in forever! We spent most of the weekend trying to enjoy the warmish weather by going to parks and hanging outside and mom and I got a little shopping in :)

Buster was posing so nicely I had to get a picture. 

Of course Ike and Great-Grandpa Dave had to get a fire going. We actually went over for this purpose, he had a lot of sticks in his yard that needed picked up before mowing season. 

We went to a really fun arcade in Evansville. Kids had a blast and I got to play endless games of pinball!

My mom's friend's son brought over his Oculus for the kids (and us) to play with. Man it is fun! Pretty sure the kids will be getting one for Christmas.

 

We recreated this photo, it showed up on my timehop on the same day!

Playing MarioKart.

Had to get the band back together, ha!

Great trip, it's always too short though! 

Wrestling, Glass Animals Concert, and some Family Meetups

Our end of winter/beginning of spring seemed super busy! I don't think I've mentioned on here yet but Josh took a new position at White's and is now VP of Residential! Super proud of him, and it means we are moving yet again, but i'll get to that later!

Mid March we got together to celebrate Josh's Aunt Gayle's retirement. Several of his aunts and uncles came to town so it was great to see everybody (some attended via zoom).

Ike's been really into rocks and gems lately so we bought him some cool geodes for Christmas. He's really enjoyed cracking into them and getting creative with his methods!

Highlight of March for the boys (well besides the Florida trip!) was getting to see one of their favorite bands in concert finally! We took them to the Glass Animals concert down in Indy. It was a great show and the kids even got to go up front for a couple of songs thanks to a super nice security guard!

Since we were in Indy we met up with the Smith clan for dinner at Shake Shack. Man it was good!

Ike's wrestling competitions came to an end, but he is still in a club for it as of right now. His last meet went great, he won a match on points and he got a pin!

And finally we started moving over to our new house (on campus). We will officially be sleeping there as of this weekend but we slowly moved a lot of things over while maintenance was still working on some things. I am ready to be over there and settled!

 

State Robotics Competition

Dave's robotics team made it to state this year! They had so much fun competing...and it was such a cool experience for all of them. In the end they didn't make it to worlds but they had a blast anyway :)

On our way to Indy. With Ike's friend Jacob in tow.

Our hotel room door decorated. We got to stay in a super nice Marriott downtown. And just happened to be at the same hotel as most of the teams in the big ten tournament that same weekened!

Their robot broke during the early qualification matches on Friday so Dave and Eli got to work fixing it. 

We staked out a place in the hotel after we saw the IU team in a conference. We got to meet Trayce Jackson-Davis! So cool and he was super nice. 

Ready to compete bright and early on Saturday!

Hard to see but here is Dave competing with one of his teammates. 

Jacob hung out with us most of the day (his mom is a coach).

I didn't get any pictures of the boys and Gamma but she was there all day :)

So much fun, and then after it was mostly over mom and I left to meet Tony and go to a concert in Shipshewana! Crazy day for sure.