Lucas Oil Stadium Tour

This place is so cool and so huge!!!!

Go Colts!!!!

The Detwiler Family on the field........yippee!!

Ella and Nicholas posing in the visitors' locker room

Yesterday, we had the opportunity to tour Lucas Oil Stadium with our homeschooling group. It was really cool. There were about 30 people in our group and there were 4 or 5 groups there from our homeschooling coop........lots of folks came to tour the new stadium. We got to see behind the scenes from top to bottom. The escalators were huge........my heart was racing similar to riding on a roller coaster. We got to tour the visitors' locker room and even go out onto the field......however, there were very strict rules as to where we could walk on the field. They were in the midst of getting the field ready for the big playoff game on Saturday. So cool. We also toured the quarterback suite.......a big ticket luxury suite complete with its own bar and refreshments. Wow. Another cool feature we saw was all of the wiring that they need for all of the t.v. stations to broadcast the game........I don't totally get it but the way it is set up, a news truck can pull up and plug in and broadcast the game. Our tour guide, Jim, said that there's enough wire that if you put it all end to end, it would go around the equator 5 times. Oh my!!

Opening presents at Meemaw and Papa's

Meemaw and Papa with their grandkids

Ella getting ready to test out her new rocking chair from Meemaw and Papa

Niko loves the Roald Dahl books from Aunt Pam.......including titles like "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" and "James and the Giant Peach"

Niko and Papa checking out Niko's new golf bag

After several days of festivities, we finally had a chance on Tuesday evening to open presents with Meemaw and Papa and Aunt Pam and Cristina. Meemaw made a yummy dinner, then we got busy opening lots of fun presents. Now if I can just figure out where to store everything........

Snow Fun in Nappanee

Lenn and the kiddos enjoying some outdoor fun in the snow

Big fun sledding!!

Lenn sucking wind after pulling the kids in the sled......Niko wasn't helping make it any easier as he was dragging his arms in the snow!

Ella pulling Niko down the driveway

Snow Angels

There were a few inches of snow to play in in Nappanee and our kids took full advantage. A big thank you to Daddy for taking the kids out twice. It takes a long time to get them all bundled up and out the door but they loved every minute of it.

"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby....."

Lenn snapped lots of pics of our biggie girl holding her head up during tummy time. She even managed to roll over from her tummy to her back.......and I missed it! I was in the other room at the time.......bummer. Couldn't you just eat her up????

Anglemyer Christmas

Aunt Charlene and Mae......Mae was passed around quite a bit at the Christmas gathering and she was a happy little girl.

Uncle Charlie Anglemyer and Nicholas......Nicholas warmed up to Uncle Charlie right away when we arrived at Aunt Charlene's house.

Nicholas and Collin Blosser playing with Legos

Great-Grandma Dorothy with her great grandkids. Back row: Grace Anglemyer, Mae, Alexa Anglemyer, Paige Blosser, Ella. Front row: Garrett Anglemyer, Collin Blosser, Niko.

Ella, Mae and Nicholas with Great-Grandma Anglemyer

On Sunday afternoon, Dec. 27, we celebrated Christmas with the Anglemyer side of the family. We had a great time of fellowship and food and Nicholas and Ella loved playing with their cousins. I ate so much, I needed 2 plates! I'll need to get serious about losing these pregnancy pounds after the New Year!

Twin Christmas Princesses

Mae and Emerson Hahn (with Mommy Alicia) modeling their Christmas dresses

Lenn and I with the twins!

Meemaw and Papa Carl with Mae before church

On Sunday, December 27, we got our children all decked out again in their Christmas pretties and went to Carl and Evelyn's church, Union Center Church of the Brethren. One of our friends there has a beautiful 7 month old daughter named Emerson who was dressed in the same dress as Mae so we had to get a picture of the 2 ladies together. Cute.

Christmas 2009--Part 1

Yia Yia and Ella in their pretty pink shirts

Pappou and Yia Yia with Mae.......Mae's mouth is purple......there's a very legitimate reason......it's called "Gentian Violet".......long story

Ella the Fairy Princess

Ready to open our presents......except Mae who'd rather just sleep through the whole thing

Part one of Christmas has come and gone. We spent Christmas Eve day in Columbus with Mimi and Papa Don, Yia Yia and Pappou, and Uncle Tim and Stephanie. We had a great day. Lunch was yummy and the presents were a hit. Personal favorites.........Mae: warmies (Uncle Tim did try to sneak in an "IU" onesie......Mae's already a Boilermaker.....sorry!); Ella: fairy and Cinderella dress up outfits tied for first followed closely by the Princess sleeping bag all courtesy of Uncle Tim and Stephanie; Nicholas: Legos and Knex (again, thank you Uncle Tim and Stephanie.......you rock); Lenn: One Year Bible from Mimi and Papa Don.....nice!; Me: My fleecy polar bear jammies followed closely by my new brown sweater. A fun day was had by all.



We spent Christmas Day at home having a (semi)leisurely day of presents and breakfast and play time. The kids were so fired up to discover that Santa had left them each a board game, he had eaten all but a couple bites of the cookies we left for him, and best of all (at least according to Nicholas), he left our family a Wii!!!!! Yippee!! I'd love to tell you that Niko was the most excited about the Wii but I feel I must confess that as I'm typing this, Lenn's and my bowling game is on hold. Lenn won the first set, I rocked the second round and now we'll duke it out for the outright bowling title. Talk about a good way to blow off some steam after a long day!!!