April in Pictures

 Our April fools joke.  Anyone want some brown E's?

 Reading

 Dance Recitals

 Titanic building

 Marble swallowing, then marble watch 2016, then marble recovery. Parenting is gross.

 First time tooth losing

 Making the lego Titanic into an entire Titanic sinking diorama

 This was an interesting read

 The plate that most sums up Iowa State Football, so clever

 Em entered an art contest.  Her work was exhibited at The Octagon Art Center.  She recieved Third Place

 Em is studying the Westward Expansion, which has meant a couple of days of pioneer recipes.  This was one of Laura Ingalls favorite cakes, Gingerbread cake, it was made on special family occasions.  Emily made the butter, then used the buttercream that was a byproduct of making the butter in the cake, and then also made the whipped topping.  We got our use out of that quart of heavy cream!  I love that she is independent and a good recipe follower now.

 The girls are playing cards.  Em never actively plays with these dolls unless a friend is over, but almost each night they are in different clothes and often in a differnet scene/setup.  I didn't even know she had cards to scale for these AG dolls.  Love her creativity.

 Dallas and I found ourselves alone for a bit and we ended up finding these two characters at the mall.

 

Everyone was taking selfies at Garth Brooks, so we "needed" one as well.  Clearly we need some practice.  Garth, however does not need any practice.  The concert was amazing.  

Awana Grand Prix 2016

This was Emily's second yeard racing in the Awana Grand Prix.  Robert and Emily learned a lot doing it last year and made some design changes this year.  You are required to use a new car each year.  She picked out the desigh and color and they went to a friends house to use some wood working tools that we don't own.  I think that was a game changer, it is nice to have the right tool for the job.  She one first place in design/style, and placed 6th in speed.  One of her runs was pretty slow, off her average so we went and asked her if it broke, but she had messed up and put int on the run backwards, it is weighted to be fast in one direction only, she felt bad.  I am glad she had a fun night racing.  

Not VEISHEA weekend

VEISHEA has been canceled the past couple of years and we have missed it.  I have noticed that campus is working new angles to offer all of their Springtime fun and club goodness.  On a most perfecct Saturday in April we attended the Spring football game.  Outside of the game, ISU featured many clubs in tent row, there was also a gear and Cyclone apperal sale, and open tours of the end-zone building and practice facility.  We watched half of the game (it was a running clock!) and then decided we wanted real food to eat and we didn't plan on waiting 30 minutes in the one open concession line, so we headed out.  But it was a fun outing, we ran into good friends to hang out with and loved being in the sun cheering on our Cyclones.

Saturday evening Robert and I filled in at a table for Cy's House of Trivia.  If I had a bucket list of Cyclone things to do this would be on it.  I was very excited to attend!  I wish I had taken more photos because it was so neat, but I wanted to play "cool" like it was no big deal, plus we had to keep our phones in the fish bowl on our table so we were not tempted to cheat and google all the answers.

This ice sculpture was on the food table.  It was the 10th year of Trivia.  HyVee catered all finger food, wings, dips, snacky type stuff.  On our table was a bag of chips and salsa galore, plus cupcakes and Buckets of popcorn from the popcorn machine

Keith Murphy and Andy Fales from WHO TV 13 and SoundOff were the MC's

This was was the grand entrence, isle into Hilton

I took this at the end of the evening so people were clearing out and the lights were up again.  100 tables, 8 people a table, $500/table, fun fundraiser!

Our table did really well the first couple rounds and actually led out of 100 tables for a round, then the fatal round of "One hit Wonders" they played a very familar song and you had to know the artist.  I think we scored 2/10 on that round!  I think I only contributed on a couple questions that only I knew.  Robert "smarty-pants" Kibbe knew so many questions, I am sure he will be asked back.