April Wrap-Up

Josh and the boys finished reading Hatchet.

Ike trying out his new rain boots. Good news, they're waterproof.

Hauling stuff in his combine. There has been lots of farm equipment out lately so this has renewed Ike's interest in his tractors.

Helping plant some flowers for next year.

Toast on a stick. Not the most sanitary way of dining but it works I guess.

Ike was mad because I made him change his clothes before school. Important information: he wore those clothes the day before. He's not the best in personal hygiene currently! :)

Sometimes you have to get creative so your hands are free for ice cream eating.

Ike and his buddy Bennett posing for me...they've done this same picture the last couple of years.















I don't have any more pictures of Dave...since Ike's home all of the time he gets the majority of my paparazzi-like hovering.

Dave getting ready for a baseball game.

I spent a lot of time in the cold/windy elements watching the boys practice for soccer and baseball. So thankful for warm weather!!!

The boys and grandpa Boo on his birthday.


















We cheered hard for the Pacers-so sad they didn't make it further this year!  Here's a video of Dave dunking like Oladipo. 

First Concert!

Josh and I took the boys to their very first concert during spring break-Rend Collective. If you haven't heard of them they are an Irish Christian band that is pretty folksy sounding. I am a big fan and the kids have liked them for a while now. Anyway, we got tickets (it was at a big church in Fort Wayne) and the kids (and us) were super pumped up for it!




Waiting for the band.
















Waiting to get inside. Holy moly it was cold for April!

We had really great seats and the show was amazing.











The kids fell asleep on the way home. They of course "weren't tired at all". :)

Before the show we ate at a restaurant called Junk Ditch in Fort Wayne. Yum!

I had about 10 pictures of the food we ate, but I thought I should only post one...here's our dessert. It was ridiculous.








Now that they've been to one concert they keep asking when we can go to another one. Little do they know, but we bought them Fall Out Boy tickets for their birthdays! The show isn't until October so we've gotta wait forever to tell them. I am horrible about keeping secrets...this is going to be so hard for me!

Easter in Evansville and Egg Hunt on Campus

We spent Easter weekend in Evansville...lots of family time, egg hunts, and candy!

Playing cards with great-grandpa.

Hanging with Liam and Gavin.

We don't get together very often so we took lots of pictures of the four of them!

New sunglasses.

Easter surprises.

Ready to hunt some eggs.

Heading to church.

You can just tell Ike is up to something.

Apparently Tony was being too loud during the service.

Tony and I hid the eggs...we did an excellent job.

Took some work for him to find that one.

Counting up their spoils from the eggs.

Breakfast date with Gamma. Love visiting because Josh and I get to sleep in!

Can't have a visit without a ride on Gpa Dave's 4-wheeler.

My cousin Gil was at Grandpa's shooting his new bow so of course Ike needed to check it out.
















Cousins picture with Grandpa.

Before we left for Evansville, the campus held an Easter egg hunt. It was a cold, windy day but the kids had a blast!

All decked out in full winter gear.

Nice looking group of boys we've got running around campus!

Love their faces. They were so pumped up.

March Madness

March wasn't actually mad, I just wanted a title to the blog that wasn't activities or recap. :)  As I was uploading these pictures I realized that about 50% of them revolve around eating, which sounds about right given how much I love to eat! We had a fun-filled month, and since I'm trying to get back on track with posting after a long time of being behind, I'm posting all of this in one big post!

My mom came up for a visit at the very beginning of the month. She timed it perfectly to come to First Friday that happens downtown.

Getting some dinner before walking around.













Ike finally got to ride the trolley!















Mom took the kids to Chuck E. Cheese on Saturday so Josh and I went to Fort Wayne for lunch. We ate at Nawa, a new Japanese restaurant-yum!

Pineapple fried rice. So tasty.

The boys and Alec at the Wrinkle in Time party at the library.

Ike and I went to the opening day of B&K. Cheesy coney dogs and root beer.

The kids spent the night at Josh's parents so we stayed in and ate this fantastic dinner (and watched Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy obviously).

Ike and Dave at Culver's. We were supporting the new playground going in.

Dave's art project on display at his spring concert.

Very blurry picture but the kids were down playing in the creek with Gabe and Kyson.

Ike helping put our new coffee table together.

Free cone day at DQ. Great smile Dave! :)

Ike and Kyson looked so cute in the trunks. The kids are back to loving the pool since we got back from Florida.













The high school Dave will attend (Southwood) made it to the state championship this year. We bought tickets but the weather forecast was grim and we decided to stay home. Theresa came over to support the Knights and we watched the game on tv!

Ready in our SHS attire. Unfortunately they lost but what a great season!

Dave with his poster.

Dave and Ike enjoying a bath bomb and looking weird.






That sums up March! We are desperately looking forward to and hoping for warmer weather in April! I am so sick of winter and it snowed yet again today. I feel like it just shouldn't be allowed to snow after spring break!

End of February