Retirement! Here We Come. (Well, Don is back to work)
by Vicky Showalter

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Fall Break with Cade & Kasen

Cade and Kasen have two weeks off from school for Fall break so we kept them after they came for the Iowa football weekend.  Brent, April and Cam took off for Brownsburg Sunday after dinner and the boys stayed on!

Sunday evening was movie and popcorn night - The Lego Movie per request!  Monday was a rainy day so we carved the pumpkins in the morning and went swimming at the North Liberty rec center in the afternoon.  An evening treat at Gurties ended the day.

Not really sure about pulling the insides out!





Another rainy day on Tuesday sent us to the Children's Museum and then to the theater to see Dolphin Tale 2.

Kasen loved the airplanes

Cade enjoyed the balls and tubes area.

Racing the golf balls

And making pizzas

Melissa invited us to come to CR for supper.  We ended up taking pizzas and the cousins had fun playing together for a few hours.



Wednesday was a sunny day (hurray) so we headed to papa Joe's farm to see great grandpa Joe and great grandma Janet.  A tractor ride, rides on the 4-wheeler, and picking Indian corn from the garden were highlights.

Precious time with papa Joe on the tractor



Husking the Indian corn

With great grandpa and grandma

Playing on the bulldozer

Play time at the West Chester school

Thursday, already!   Wow the week went fast.  We took the boys to Bloomsbury Farm near Atkins before heading to Milwaukee where we met up with Brent, April and Cam.  Bloomsbury was lots of fun with so many activities.
















After a 4 hour drive to Milwaukee the boys were re-united with mom and dad.  So many stories to tell.  We met at a Mexican restaurant near the neighborhood where they lived while Brent was in law school at Marquette.  The boys will spend a couple days in Milwaukee before they head home to Brownsburg.

Cam, you can join Fall break at papa and nana's
house in a few years!



What a fantastic week with Cade and Kasen.  I hope that we made lots of memories and that we can do fall break together again next year.

Sunday, October 12, 2014

A Weekend of Family Fun

Nothing like a beautiful fall weekend and Iowa FB tickets to unite this family.  Go Hawkeyes!  With tickets in hand Brent, April, Melissa and Scott headed to Kinnick Saturday morning to see the Iowa football game and nana & papa got to stay with the five boys.  Great trade-off!

Stair steps of our boys
Baby Cam was sleeping.



Half time of the Iowa FB game was game time
for these boys (and papa)

The second half needed popcorn.


Soccer, hide and seek, and baseball after the game.
What a beautiful fall day.

 Five awesome BOYS!  

Big game of baseball when the mama and
daddies got back from the Iowa FB game.


Kasen trying out the balance bike that he gets to take home.

Landon discovered the tree in our front yard
is a good one for climbing.


Snuggles before bedtime.

Sleep over on the family room floor.
And Kasen managed to join them this time!

Dutch Blitz and caramel apple sangria!
AND I won!

Learning a new card game Sunday morning.
Cars and ramps!

Legos



A Day with Landon & Owen

No School!  Yea!  Landon and Owen did not have school on Monday, October 6 so they spent the day with us.  I picked them up Sunday evening so they could stay overnight.  Jack-o-lanterns were carved, books were read, games were played, and outside play enjoyed.



Owen was not a big fan of scooping out the pulp!


Landon reading his basketball book.

Owen love the Berenstein Bears books