March

At the end of February we had a very exciting event-Dave got his license! Here he is ready to roll in his very own minivan :) I think he named it Brenda.

Our worship leader was out of state one week so Dave took over as lead guitar. He did a great job!

Dinner date at Culver's one evening.

Ike spent the weeks leading up to Florida getting his fishing stuff ready to go.

Grandma Kyra and Grandpa Charlie came up to visit and watch Dave play in Rise Up at the Honeywell Center.

 

Visits and Band Concert

Gamma came to visit in December! We had been wanting to try another Christmas market (in Berne) so we went over with Josh's mom. It was fine but not nearly as awesome as the one in Carmel. We did find a really cute store in downtown Berne after so that was cool!

Unrelated to other happenings but I saw this on Facebook and I had to have it. It is the creepiest adorable decoration. 

That Sunday the kids had their Christmas band concert. They did such a great job!

 

September

Over Labor Day weekend we went to Josh's aunt Veronica's house to swim and hang out.

Josh and I took students on a hike as part of an alternative classroom we did as a school. I always love traipsing through the woods! We got a touch lost (our leader led us astray, but Josh got us out)

September means it's officially time for football and pep band. Ike decided to play football for the junior high team and Dave plays all kinds of percussion for the band. Typically Ike played some kind of defense and he got to punt during some of the games.

My garden was still going strong throughout the month.

I worked hard to make this project for Sophie's 16th birthday. It was so fun to put this together and gift it to her!

My mom and brother came up for a weekend and they got in a lot of golf :)

 

July

We jumped right back into life after we got back from California. Dave played in a worship night at the county fair with a couple other people from church.

Josh's parents bought a new camper, here are the boys in it-it's a baby camper!

The boys played in a junior/adult golf tourney. Dave and his partner Jim Hogan got second place in their age range and I think Ike and Josh got 2nd place as well.

The neighbor kids love coming over to hang out/pester our children. I love it!

I did lots of pickling! Unfortunately my cucumbers didn't do that well this year. Looking forward to next season already!

All the cousins went with grandma and grandpa to visit Aunt Em in Madison. They had a blast!

 

Last Days of School

Ike had his very last school carnival this year. It's so sad he's not going to be at the elementary school anymore!

Here he is in all his glory from winning prizes. 

Gamma came up this weekend because the kids had some activities going on. 

Dave's final band concert of the year. They played some fun songs this time around!

It's official, last day of school!

Comparison shot from 5 years ago. 

We had a get together at Josh's aunts over Memorial Day Weekend.

These boys are so cute. They brought me breakfast on my birthday from 50 East. 

Me and my neighbor buddy Wesley. He likes to come help me plant things :)

 

Soccer, Mother's Day, Ike's Injury

May was such a busy month! Ike had lots of soccer, we spent a ton of time hunting mushrooms, and Dave was in the midst of golf matches. Lots of fun stuff going on :)

Since we don't buy pictures I had Ike pose by my pretty lilac bush. 

We found the mother load of mushrooms! Such a fun day. 

Dave had a band concert. They all were so much better than last year at this time. Very impressed with their improvement!

We had a get together for mother's day with a lot of Josh's family. Good to see everybody!

I helped out at Ike's school with the carnival (they earn points by reading all year). He got this super nice hat, tinsel in his hair, and a bunch of soda. 

The cousins came up the next weekend. Here they are at Ike's soccer game. 

Sunday morning Josh and I went for a quick walk on campus while the kids played outside. About half way through we received a frantic call from Dave that Ike had gotten hurt. We ran home to find one of our neighbors helping out and Josh had also received two more calls from other adults on campus alerting us to what was going on (I love living on campus, it is truly so wonderful having people looking out for our family!). Turns out Ike had gotten in the way of a swing and his forehead was busted open. Everything ended up fine, and they just glued his head back together at the hospital!

 

Definitely a stressful morning but so glad Ike was fine in the end!