An Evening w/Cousins!

Friday after work I headed down to Don & Sherawn’s (Elizabeth’s Dad…my cousin) house because my cousin Elizabeth and her husband Adam, and their baby, Ross came down from Minnesota to visit! And it was fun to catch up with Don, Sherawn, and their daughter Jill who has a son, Ethan, that is just 2 weeks older than Ross! I think it’s so neat that the cousins are so close in age! I am sure they will be buddies! I hadn’t seen Ross or Ethan since July and they both have changed a lot!! They are both about 4 months now!

“Grandpa Don” really got Ross to laughing…it was so cute!!

He was laughing so hard he could hardly catch his breath!!

    

Sisters and their boys!! Jill and Ethan on the left & Elizabeth and Ross on the left! Ethan is just 2 weeks older! 

Ethan playing with Aunt Elizabeth!! 

He is such an alert, happy  little guy!! 

This is Emma, Elizabeth’s brother’s little girl. She was SO tired!! She turned 3 on Saturday!! 

Ross loved Ethan’s high chair and little farm toy! So much, that Elizabeth said they were going to buy one on the way home!! :) 

Ha ha, caught Adam off guard!! He wasn’t too excited to take pictures!! 

After supper the boys played games, Jill had to take Ethan home to bed, and I helped Elizabeth give Ross a bath! He loves bath time! I had to snap a few pictures of the little cutie while Elizabeth lotion-ed him up!         

Cousins!!! I miss this girl SO much!

Vikings vs Packers Game

Kyle had a few of his crew over Monday night to watch the Vikings Packers game. Unfortunately they are all Packer fans!! But we let them come anyway!! lol I didn’t get too many pictures. But luckily the Vikings won ‘cause Kyle was sure “talking big” the whole game. I figured if they didn’t pull it out he would have gotten a hard time at work about it!!

They even bought us Vikings’ koozies!!

This was Barry’s sad face when the Packer’s lost!!

And just for fun, I had to include a picture of my cute little puppy!!

Our friends, Mel & Robbye who live just down the street, stopped over for a bit. They have 2 boy, Diego & Mateo. Diego was pretty excited to put on Kyle’s football helmet and throw the football around!! He’s so cute!!

Sunday = Family Day

While we were at the Hawkeye game on Saturday, Stef & Geoff were rolling into Iowa on their cross country move to Omaha!! We met up with them, Dad, and Grandma for lunch at Applebees.

The bright light from the windows was not helping the picture! Doesn’t Dad look spiffy in his suit?!?! 

My sister is CRAZY!! 

Ok this one is much better!! I can’t even begin to express how excited I am that they are going to be SO much closer now!!  

Sisters!!! 

After lunch I went with Stef & Geoff back to Mom’s to hang out for the afternoon. We had my “birthday supper” that night with Mom, Duane, Dad, Mindi, Preston, Stef, Geoff, Kyle, and me! Since my job is so busy around my birthday we didn’t get to celebrate with my family so Mom made a very nice supper and we chatted the evening away!

Dad & Stef checking out places online in Omaha. They planned to go apartment/house hunting the next few days.   

Mom always lets us request our meal. So I said I like it when we grill at Mom’s and so she did! We had cheesy potatoes, squash, scalloped corn, and smoked pork chops!! Mmmm!! AND….oreo ice cream cake for desert!! A classic in our family!!

Iowa Hawkeyes vs Arkansas State Red Wolves

Kyle and I, along with Mom & Dad B, Travis, Laura, Melanie, and Steve spent the day in Iowa City tailgating and cheering on the Hawks to a win over the Red Wolves, putting the Hawks at 5-0!!!

We started out the day early, just like we always would, getting to the tailgate lot at 6:30am-ish!! We wanted everyone to get the “whole experience”!! :) It was a tad chilly too!!

They got the bag-o games going right away!!

   Travis & Mom B watching the “intense” bag-o game!! :) 

Steve was keeping warm from the heat off the motor of the Explorer!!   

Linda & Me…she is my friend’s Sara’s Mom!!

Our Tailgate Spot!!

 

Me & Mom B rocking the Hawkeye tattoos!!

    

Check out their shirts…they flow right together “Iowa Hawkeyes”!! 

The Bangert Women!! And we didn’t even plan to all wear gold!! 

And the boys…they weren’t too enthused to take so many pictures!

 
Kyle got the new Hawkeye radio’s to listen to the game!!

 

I zoomed in across the stadium to find Travis & Laura and then Mom & Dad B and Mel & Steve!

 

Here comes Herky!!   

Go Hawks!!  
Hawkeye Snuggies!! lol   
Herky was crowd surfing!!  

Woo Hoo!! We’re 5-0!!! 

Check our Kyle’s shirt: It says "Until You're Ready" "Avoidthestork.com"....I think Kyle is trying to say something :p

 

It was a fun day together as a family and the win was icing on the cake!!