Saturday, February 18th, 2017

It's been too long since my last blog post.  I should have made an entry for this sooner, but I'm happy to finally state that Amy & Brandon welcomed a healthy baby boy into the world on February 7th!  Introducing Logan Anthony Shostak:

I'm so excited to have a new baby in the family!  We still haven't made the trip over to Omaha to see him in person!  I know that they've had a lot of visitors recently, so we're trying to wait for a good time when it won't be so hectic.  Besides, Nolan was sick with the flu all of last week, so we had to stay home anyways.  I'm sure before long though we'll get the meet the little cutie!

What reminded me to blog today though was Iowa State's victory over the TCU Horned Frogs, 84-71.  Maxwell and Eben were both able to come with me to enjoy tonight's game.  This was Maxwell's second ever ISU basketball game (the first was this season vs The Citadel), and this was the first Big 12 conference game that he has attended. Interestingly, Nolan's first conference game was also against TCU (and it's 84-69 score was almost identical).  I must say that Maxwell was very well behaved for tonight's game.  He actually clapped along with the crowd basically non-stop for the first 10 minutes of the game.  I think that he was just like "Hey, I know how to do that", which really entertained him.

TCU won the opening tip-off.

Maxwell poses with me for his first scoreboard picture :)

Grandpa Eben with Maxwell.

As for the game, I would say that Naz Long was the player of the game.  He led the Cyclones with 25 points while connecting on 7 of 12 threes.  He also led the team with 7 rebounds.  Monte Morris also had a great game for Iowa State.  He scored 18 points, dished out 11 assists, and he recorded 2 steals (which places him in a tie for the Iowa State career record for steals with Jeff Hornacek at 211).  They were joined in double figures scoring by Deonte Burton (18) and Donovan Jackson (11).  Tonight was the fourth time that I have attended an ISU basketball game vs TCU (2015, 2014, and 2013 were the others).