Lion King

On Saturday night we were able to take Ethan to go and see "The Lion King" in the city. We went with my mom and my sister. I had Ethan take a late nap so that he would be able to stay up for the show which was at 8:00pm. I think Ethan's favorite part of the whole trip was the car ride down. Ethan and my mom were talking about the different bridges and roads the whole way down, a future engineer right there! When we got out of the car he yelled yes, we are in the city, it was so cute. We ate at a corner bakery near by the theater and then we were able to enjoy the show. We ended up having first row seats so Ethan could see the people and animals close up. One of the Giraffe heads even ended up in Eric's lap! I wsa so proud of how Ethan acted that late at night he was a very big boy. The show was great and Ethan woke up asking when we could go to the city again!

Picking Pumpkins

Grandma and Grandpa Langel came last weekend with Tera and Kevin. They were able to go to Ethan's soccer game and we also went picking pumpkins at a local pumpkin patch that Sara and Chrissy had told me about. We didn't get there until about an hour before it closed which was perfect because nobody was really around. The kids were able to pick out the pumpkins that they wanted and to run around in the pumpkin patch, needless to say when we got home we were very dusty and dirty and the kids were put in the tub immediately

Jumping in the Leaves

The other day we went over to my mom's house to play in the leaves since they have huge trees that drop tons of leaves, we only get about 10 leaves in our yard. Ethan's friend Matt came and played with the kids as well. Ethan ended up having more fun raking the leaves and Maya really couldn't have been bothered by the leaves she wanted to go out in the front and play on the bike, oh well maybe next year.

Maya and Will

Kate, Jim, and Will were able to come over a couple of weekends ago just to hang and watch the blackhawks game and have some pizza. It was fun to see the kids play together because they are so close in age, only a week apart and we were able to catch up a little bit before kate and Jim's lives get even crazier with two little ones!

Frank's 30th Birthday

My friend Frank Gogliotti turned thirty this summer and his wife, Gail decided to throw him a suprise party at a white sox game. We don't get to see them to often so Eric and I thought it would be a perfect time to see them. We met up with Molly and Brendan and Jim and Kate. Unfortunately it rained and the game got delayed but we were able to go to the bar in the stadium and watched the hawkeyes game. We had a great time and it was good to catch up with people we dont get to see. The night ended in langel style Eric got kicked out!!! yep, but it was time to leave anyways and it was a good laugh!

Soccer

This fall I signed Ethan up for soccer. Every saturday morning he has had practice and the last two weeks we had a game. The weather has been interesting on the first day it stormed and was cold the next weekend it was 85 degrees and this past weekend it got cancelled again due to rain. Ethan had a rocky start to soccer. he was so pumped putting on his shin guards but when he found out he had their team had to wear pink he was pretty bummed. He finally got over the pink shirt and enjoyed playing the game. Maya has gone to every practice with her folding chair to cheer on her brother. We still aren't sure if he is cut out for soccer, he still tries to tackle the kids as he is playing and after he scored a goal he thought the game was over and was laying down in the sidelines. He had a crowd cheering for him, grandma slick, erika, grandma and papa langel and tera and all came to cheer him on.

Iowa vs Iowa State

Eric and I try to get to at least one Iowa game every year, this year we made it to the Iowa vs. Iowa State game. The kids didn't make the trip this time but maybe next year. We were able to meet up with Staci, JJ, James, Tera, Brea, Brandon, and Katie. We went tailgating on the "hill" which Eric and I had trouble finding even though I went to school there go figure, me not knowing where to go!! As soon as we got to the tailgate Eric shot gunned a beer and I was playing flippy cup, needless to say it was a good thing we didnt bring the kids. We were able to watch the game at a bar and I even made it going out later that night. To top the night off I had a Marc's grilled cheese in the ped mall at 1:30 in the morning!

Its Football Season!

The college season is well on its way but, on the first day of the season we were all in our Iowa gear so I thought I would take a couple of pics of the kids especially since Maya's cheerleading outfit just fits. Eric is an Iowa state fan so notice the flag that the kids are sitting on, we are a split household but, I think we all know who number one is, Go Hawks!!

Ethan's First Day of School

Ethan started his second year of pre school this year. He is going four days a week in the afternoon. His new teacher is Miss Meg. Ethan was excited to start his first day of school but, as you can see in the picture with his new teacher he was a little nervous. He came home after the first day talking about the new friends he had in his class and he was ready to go back the next day. He will be reviewing upper and lowercase letters this year and moving on to sight words and hopefully reading a little, thats my reading teacher wishful thinking... He will also start learning simple adding and subtracting. Hopefully he takes after his father in the math department!

Oops where has the time gone...

Well I have not posted anything on my blog since July. I have been taking a lot of pictures but, since work has started back up i just haven't had the time to post anything. But, I know I have to start again so here it goes. Instead of back logging all of the summer pics I am just going to show a slide show of some of the pictures I took at the end of the summer enjoy!