Friday, August 26th, 2016

Today I am writing about Maxwell's first sporting event at Hilton Coliseum.  We were able to take the whole family to watch the ISU volleyball season opener against Wichita State.  The Cyclones ended up winning in straight sets: 25-16, 25-21, and 25-20.

Maxwell, Mommy, and Nolan getting ready for the game to start.

Here is the opening serve between Wichita State and Iowa State.

Maxwell got to meet Cy!!

I was looking back through my blog, and the first time that Nolan attended an ISU sporting event was on October 9th, 2013.  Similarly, his first sporting event was an ISU volleyball game.  Even better, the Cyclones won that match in straight sets against another team from the state of Kansas (Kansas State).  Nolan was also able to meet Cy that night as well.

Monday, August 1st, 2016

I just wanted to point out that today is special for us because little Maxwell is now 6 months old!  He's changing so much now.  He's basically army crawling now, but he can't quite crawl normally.  He can get up onto his hands and knees, but he will only wiggle around.  He still needs to figure out how to coordinate his arms & legs to crawl.

Maxwell at 6 months old!!

Another fun thing about today is that our friends Dan & Anne Becker welcomed their second child today as Lara Mae was born this morning :)

Saturday, July 2nd, 2016

Today we had a family photo shoot with Destri from d&orfs photography over at McFarland Park.  We have such a happy little family :)

Thursday, June 16th, 2016

Well tonight for supper I had some leftover soft shell tacos, Elizabeth had some leftover cheese tortellini, Nolan had some yogurt... some candy... and part of a PB&J sandwich.  None of that was very interesting.  The interesting part was that Maxwell had solid food for the first time!  Elizabeth fed him some squash baby food, which happens to be the first solid food that Nolan ate back in 2013.

Maxwell taking a bite of squash.

I think he likes it!

Sunday, May 29th, 2016

It's Memorial Day weekend, and Elizabeth and I took the kids up to the farm to spend it with Eben and Amy.  It ended up raining quite a bit, but Nolan really had fun playing up there.  Grandpa Eben took him for a tractor ride, and Nolan even got to play with some baby kittens.  The main reason we went back though was to pay our respects to Lynn for Memorial Day.  I am going to try to leave a different type of flower at her grave every year (for either Memorial Day or Mother's Day).  Last year I left a a bouquet of daises, and this year I planted some Asiatic Lilies.  The Lilies I left this year were "Paprika Sunrise" as they were yellow in color with a reddish speckle on them.

Here are the flowers I left this year.  They should be a perennial that is able to grow back every year.

Nolan watched us leave flowers there, so then he started picking some dandelions and laying them be Lynn's grave.  It was pretty cute. 

Sunday, May 1st, 2016

Today marks little Maxwell's 3 month birthday!  That's right... he's now 1/4 year old :)  Today he had his 3 month photo shoot:

It's fun to compare Maxwell to Nolan's three month photo shoot, which I blogged about HERE.

Sunday, April 10th, 2016

It's hard to believe, but tomorrow Maxwell will be 10 weeks old already :)

As for today, we had a fun and relaxing Sunday with the kids.  For supper tonight we all went out to Pizza Pit just to get out of the house a little.  At this point, anytime we can escape the house for a while seems like quite the accomplishment!  Let me tell you, it's a lot more difficult handling two kids than it is one.  After supper, we walked around central campus for 30 minutes or so.  It's always enjoyable taking in the scenery of the ISU campus.  We walked by the Gerdin building, the MU, down the long walkway between Beardshear hall and Curtiss hall, and up past Lagomarcino hall.  There were lots of trees and flowers starting to bloom.  On our way back to the car, we even stopped into a lecture hall at Gerdin and watched a "Paw Patrol" cartoon on the big screen.  Nolan enjoyed that quite a bit :)

Yesterday we took the kids to the Iowa State Block and Bridle Animal Learning Day event.  They had a big display of different animals... pigs, cattle, baby goats, sheep, baby chicks, and even dairy cows that people could milk (we didn't take the time to actually milk them though).  Nolan had a fun time running all over and looking at the animals.  I realize all of these pictures are with Nolan and not Maxwell, but it was just easier for Nolan to pose with the animals.  Max spent most of the time napping in the stroller.

Nolan checking out the pigs... he said "the pigs sleeping".

Nolan with some baby goats.

Nolan observing some cattle.

Elizabeth and Nolan with the goats.