Purdue Kids Club Game and Tailgating

When I heard that the Purdue Kid's Club football game was November 3rd, I was NOT excited (remember the weather over Fall Break a few weeks earlier?).  Well, we ended up with a beautiful, sunny day to cheer on the Boilers vs Iowa.  We went down early to tailgate.  Todd and Cathy drove down with us and we met up with the Bergers and some of their friends.

The game was packed and the Boilers pulled out a last second field goal to win the game.

It was so exciting!  The crowd rushed onto the field.

Then we went back to spend the night at the Bergers.  The next day when they headed off to church, we went to campus to walk around, showing these future Boilermakers around! :)

We had a great weekend and although it was cold, we made some great memories!

Flag Football

Landon played flag football again this year.  Matt graciously coached his team, the Steelers.  They had so many close games but ended up losing quite a few.  He still had a good time, scored several touchdowns, and had many tackles.  This is the last year of flags and we're debating whether to let him do tackle next year.  He, of course, wants to.  But he is so small and with all of the new concussion studies, we're just not sure. 

The "Panther Bowl" was on dad's 70th birthday, so he got to watch his grandson play football.  We celebrated the night before by going out to Corndance to eat with the family.  Unfortunately, the Steelers didn't win, but it was a fun game to watch.

Football weekend!

We had a great weekend cheering on the Boilers and Landon in football games!🏈  On Saturday, we went down to Purdue and met Nate to do some tailgating before the Kids Club football game.  The weather was gorgeous (a little windy 🍃, but nice).  We had good seats and got a good view of the game.

 The 1997 Boiler team was there to honor their coach Joe Tiller (who passed away last week) and celebrate the 20th anniversary of their season.  We got a good view of Drew Brees as he made his way onto the field.

 Everything was going well until the 4th quarter when dark clouds rolled in, then the rain, then the crowd was evacuated for lightning.  There was a 90 minute weather delay while we waited in Mackey Arena (the basketball arena).  We decided to head home instead of going back to the game (it was close to 8 pm by then) and we missed an awesome ending where Purdue came back and won the game. :(

watching the storm on the Jumbotrons

 Then on Sunday, Landon's flag football team played in the Panther Bowl on NorthWood's high school football field.  They played the first game against the Packers and won.  Played the next game against the Lions and won a close game.  Then played a third game (all in a row...good thing they are young!) against the Bengals and lost.  Landon had a great season and so did Matt as coach.

The girls (Kenna, Lola, Vivi, and Emmy) cheered on their brothers!  "Let's go, Titans, let's go!"

 The Titans 

Front Row: Ryan, Landon, Ryder, Tyler, Wesson  Back Row: Coach Matt, Sloan, Jayden, Brycen, Mason, Kike, Greyson and Coach Scott

So fun watching these boys play together!

Landon's birthday parties

This kids LOVES all things sports, so when he mentioned having a baseball birthday party, I wasn't surprised! 🏈⚾🏀  Also, it was a super easy theme.  We had friends over on Saturday afternoon and family on Sunday.  Can't believe this kid is 9 already!!

 It was a GORGEOUS day for a party.  The boys spent most of the time outside playing football and baseball.  Coach Matt helped keep the games moving. :)

 Brayden, Dakota, Brendan, Greyson, Kyler, Landon, and Micah

I think they all had a good time and I'm sure they were all tired by the end of the afternoon!

Then on Sunday, we had Landon's family party.  It was another great day to celebrate Landon!

What a blessing Landon is to our family.  I can't wait to see how God's plans unfold in his life!

September in review

It's hard to believe that today is the last day of September.  Where do the days go??  We had some wacky weather this month from 40-91 degrees, so we were wearing all kinds of things.  We went camping at Potato Creek the weekend after Labor Day (Labor Day weekend we spent taking down our above ground pool for the winter. 😢).  We had a ball.  The Davis family, Frye family, Gill family, and Jamie came along.  We had sites all near each other and the kids LOVED it.  Emmy and Landon even had a little boy from school there too.  We hardly saw them.  They rode bikes and played football, and played in the campers.  The mornings were chilly, there's those 40 degree temps, but the afternoons were sunny and nice.  It was a lot of fun, but always busy trying to camp when we're back at work.

stocking cap, shorts, hard to tell what to wear!

We had fun at the NW homecoming game.  The kids even got special shirts to wear (thanks Gma!).

Landon's been playing flag football (Razzle Dazzle)🏈🏈 for the Titans and Matt coached.  They have practice Thursday nights from 5:30-7:00 and games each Saturday.  Both boys have enjoyed it!

The week of Sept. 18, we had crazy hot weather for Indiana (near 90) and of course we had taken the pool down weeks before.  That didn't stop the kids from getting wet though.  We dug out the old, torn slip and slide and they made our slide into a water slide!

Fun September memories!