Friday Night Football...Lucas Oil Style

This Friday (8-22) we went as a family downtown to the new Lucas Oil Stadium and watched the Fishers vs. Noblesville football game, and a little bit of the New Palestine vs. Whiteland game. The boys had a blast! I was pleasantly surprised at how well they did. I did bring a bag of things to keep them occupied, and they did get up and go potty a lot (Shawn took them most of the time and subsequently missed all but one of the big plays that Fishers made...sorry honey!). For the boys, the highlight of the game was seeing the Fishers' tiger mascot. Alex was constantly asking, "Whaiws the tigu?". He would come up with all kinds of answers for his own question like, "Oh...he mus be seeping" or "He's hiding". It was like "Where's Waldo?" all night.

Here are some pictures of our fun night out with the boys. :)

Yes, Peyton Manning was there too. :) He was a whole lot skinnier than I had pictured him being. Shawn kept saying, "Kick him in the knee!" (but not too loud and often...thank goodness!). He would also occasionally say, "Go Bears!"

This is one of the many Lucas Oil vehicles that are around the stadium. The boys got to get up in the tractor that these wheels are attached to. I thought it would make a cute picture with the boys inside the huge wheels. :) As Alex found out, the insides of the wheels were very shiny and reflective. :)

Notice how high we are. Brannon and I came up here earlier. On the way up the escalators to get there, I realized that the clear sides of the escalator were the only thing keeping us from falling down to the bottom of the stadium. Not too big of a deal, except I realized it half way up while Brannon was sitting on my shoulders!!!! I was SO glad it was Brannon and not squirmy Alex on my shoulders! So next time you go to the stadium, look up at the long escalator that goes to the top, and remember me and my story. Don't be like me! ;\

I know that this is disgusting, but when we got home and were getting the boys ready for bed, I looked at Brannon's feet and saw this. GROSS!!! I guess with all the walking and sandal wearing, he collected a pretty impressive amount of what we like to call, toe jam. :P

This is what my tired baby looked like before we turned off the lights at 11:00 that night!!!! It took them about 5 minutes to fall asleep. This is pretty impressive, because they have been taking almost 2 hours to fall asleep the last couple of weeks. :(

You would think...

Ok, so you would think that by now that I would get this blogging thing. Nope! If you are looking at the things we did this weekend...the air show..., you probably will notice that I did the posts in reverse order. Sorry! One of these days I will think about that before I start...maybe. ;)

Air Show - Sat. 8-23 (videos of planes)

Here are some videos of the planes we saw. The videos are a little shaky, because I was holding my little digital camera with one hand, and Alex (covering his ear) with the other. We were really close, so I was able to get a lot of cool video.

This is video of a "trick/stunt" plane and pilot. The joke was that this "redneck" guy from Alabama (which was funny because my parents are from Alabama and all our family lives there) stole a plane and was flying it and didn't know what he was doing. It was really cool because he did some neat things, like flying into the corn fields and then back up again. The final stunt he did was to land the plane on a truck.




This video is of one of the jets that comes very close to breaking the sound barrier. It was completely silent, until the plane was right in front of us!

Air Show - Sat. 8-23 (Brannon jumping)

Brannon got to do this really cool jumping thing. He got to jump on this inflatable trampoline, while being attached to this thing that raised him up into the air. That was a really good explanation, huh! ;) Just check out the video and it will be clear. :) Unfortunately, he wasn't quite strong enough to flip in the air like the bigger kids, but he had fun. I think he was still tired from the night before (post and pictures to come).

Air Show - Sat. 8-23

This Saturday we went to the air show with my parents. It was really cool (not literally, because we just about spontaneously combusted in the heat!). We have been hearing it and watching it from a far for as long as we have lived in this house. We live only about a mile from the Mount Comfort airport where it all takes place. When we got there, the boys played in some of the inflatable things, and Brannon did this really cool jumping thing (pictures and video to follow). Then we made our way to the tent to eat and watched the show from the front row. At first, the boys were terrified of the loud fighter jets and cried to go home. Thank goodness the fighter jet part didn't last too long, and they enjoyed the rest of the planes. The day was blistering hot, but thank goodness there was an occasional breeze. When the day was over, we came home and collapsed!

This is how Brannon and Alex "watched" the fighter jet part of the show. Notice the look on Brannon's face and the sweat on Alex. And no, Shawn is not about to pass out. ;)

After we watched the air show for about an hour, and all the really cool stuff was over, we walked around and looked at all the cool planes and helicopters. We were allowed to sit in a lot of them too. :) It was so funny to look at all of these huge planes, and see people sitting under every part of them that created a little bit of shade.

After we walked around, we went back to the inflatable jumping things. It struck me, as I was watching the boys wait in line, that they have finally gotten old enough (and patient enough) to wait in a line without loosing their minds. What a wonderful milestone to reach!!! It was also so cute to watch them stand in line hugging on each other. :)

And now we are on our way home! It was so weird how they had us leave the airport area. We had to drive down this one lane dirt "road" through the corn field. It was kind of "Children of the Cornish". When we got home, our faces were all SO blistered from looking straight into the sun at the planes. And of course, none of us thought to wear any sunscreen. :\

Sprinkle Park

This summer we have really enjoyed going to the sprinkle park in Noblesville/Westfield. It is so much fun for the boys to play in the water and climb, jump and spin on the playground equipment. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the sprinkle park this summer.

The boys "bestest pinds" (as Alex would say), Evan and Nate.

Brannon and Evan pondering the football field. ;)

Boy do Brannon and Alex love each other! :)

I love both Brannon and Alex's expressions in this picture.