Monday, October 26, 2015

Fall Break

We spent the week together in Brown County, a short hours drive from our home.  We rented a cabin that was surrounded by wooded trails, just perfect for 3 little boys to explore!
It was such a relaxing week away from our rigid schedules of school, sports and work!


Monopoly stops for no meal, it just gets pushed aside!



There were lots of football games on the front lawn!







We had amazing weather the entire week, high 70's during the day and 60's at night.  We had a campfire with s'mores every night!


Nick found a toad out amongst the wood for the fire.


A trip to Brown County is not complete without a stop off at the State Park for a little fishing.









The boys enjoy fishing, for a short time.  They fished longer this outing than I remember them doing so in the past.  They are definitely growing up!

Ben always has a smile for me.



Next up we hiked around the lake.  



Ben and I enjoyed taking our time on our hike.  We stopped to take a few pictures...

there was a caterpillar to hold,


a tree to hold up,


a giant root to push down, 


and a beautiful lake with beautiful fall foilage to pose for a picture for Mommy!

















We spent a day in Nashville, IN shopping a bit and enjoyed a horse and carriage ride around the city.


Ben fed Avalanche, the horse, a special treat to thank him for the ride.


Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Go Colts!

The boys have a week off for fall break which allowed us to attend a Sunday night Colts football game vs. the Patriots!  
Unfortunately, the Colts lost a close one but we still enjoyed the excitement of the night.  




Monday, October 19, 2015

Cub Scouts

We are all involved in scouts this year!  Ben is the newest Tiger scout, Sam is a Wolf scout and Nick is a Bear scout.  Eric continues lead Sam's den and I have become an official assistant leader with him.  
We're in this together!  

We spend a lot of our free time participating in scouting events.


Our little town has a fall festival parade each year, the scouts always march in it, along with most of the town!  This years theme was Wild, Wild West.  We did our best to dress the part!


The boys all made rockets and then launched them!
Believe or not, we found all of the rockets after blastoff!


Popcorn sales in October!
We have the greatest neighbors and family to sell popcorn to!



We had the opportunity to campout at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in October.  Unfortunately  the temperatures dropped to a night time low of 32 degrees, but we hibernated in our tent and made it through the night.  The boys were much more tolerant of the frigid night than Eric and I!