January and February

I've been horrible about taking pictures lately so I don't have much to add for the beginning of the year! Here's just a snippet of what went on for us before we headed to Florida at the beginning of March.

We didn't get a ton of snow this year-just one really good one and lots of cold, dreary days.

My mom came up a couple times to visit over these months which was awesome!

Dave had several pep band games that we went to. It's so fun to hear him play the kit!

Dave and some of his friends made the news one evening.

The boys both had school dances that they attended. Seemed like they had a pretty good time!

Finally a little bit of sunshine!

We helped chaperone the school dance here on campus. That is always such a great event. Here's me and Theresa :)

I finished a paint by number of Tony and Ben's dogs. This was so fun to work on!

Josh's Uncle Bob passed away so the whole family came together to celebrate him.

 

Christmas Part III: Evansville

One last stop on our Christmas tour this year: Evansville! We went down for a little longer trip than usual so we could overlap with Rob's family being in town. Lots of fun and lots of present opening of course :)

Walking with Gamma-it's so weird both boys are just taller than a lot of us now!

We went putt-putting and laser tagging with Dad and Kyra. This was a blast. I have to point out that I won laser tag!

We went out to eat one night so mom took the boys out too!

Ike, mom, and Josh went shooting one day. 

I have been demoted to riding in the backseat now when Dave's driving us. So weird!

All the presents at Dad and Kyra's! It was great to see everybody and Dad made a feast! Crab legs and filet mignon.

 

Unfortunately our trip extended by an extra day because of Ike and I coming down with a stomach bug. We made it home the next day before Josh and Dave ended up with it. Not a great ending to our vacation but we had a lot of fun before that!!

Christmas Part II

We had a pretty quiet Christmas celebration at home this year. It was different but we enjoyed ourselves!

Started off by going to Josh's aunt and uncle's house for Christmas Eve. We played some games and ate good food as usual.

The kids (and us just not pictured) got to open their Christmas Eve presents.

Christmas morning-so many stocking presents. We have gotten less big items and more necessities wrapped up as stocking stuff over the years.

Josh's parents were on a tour of the state, visiting Em in Madison, Brit and fam in Indy, and then on to see us.

Josh made a bunch of steaks and they brought the Smith boys to us to hang for a couple days.

And Dave got a little driving in!

 

Christmas Part I

Kicking off this Christmas season we went down to Indianapolis for the Bowyer/Smith Christmas. The kids went down Friday and Josh and I joined in on Saturday.

On Friday they all went ice skating (to mixed results, ha!) and walked around downtown Indy.

We were all together by Saturday morning for some breakfast and Christmas cheer.

Josh's parents created a game show for all of us to play and even dressed the parts. It was awesome.

The kids paired off in teams to create a Christmas village scene. I think they did a great job and the winner took home cash while the runner up got the leftover gift cards from the game show!

I think this is the last year for the cousin crew shirts, little snug!

Thanks to the Smiths for hosting-we all had a great time!