Churchill Downs

Churchill Downs Museum and Track were a huge crowd favorite with the team and our family.  Garrett loves the track and horses as much as his Daddy and Papa Dave (which might scare me a little!).  The student loved watching the horses run too.  As you can see the museum had plenty of picture locations for us to be goofy. Check out our little "jockeys" on the scale, they remain 2 pounds apart when on individually and unfortunately they will never be small enough to be a real horse jockey.  They did enjoy dressing up in the jockey gear for the picture.  The number sixteen silks were worn by the horse that won the Preakness on the same day in May that Dave's team won State. 

 

Fun times at Churchill Downs!

 

3rd in the Nation!

Dave's team placed 3rd in the Nation, his best place so far.  One of the girls on the team was second in the Nation.  We are very proud of our Daddy's dedication to his career and look forward to him taking home a 1st in the future.  He's determined!!! The students were awesome in having our kids tag along during the second half of their trip.

Louisville Slugger Museum

Dave's Dairy products team won the State Champions back in May and went to Louisville to compete in Nationals.  This is Dave's third time at Nationals and we figured since the boys are young enough to miss 5 days of school and old enough to travel easy that it was time we joined them.  Dave left on Monday with the team and the boys and I flew out on Thursday to meet them.  Which is why I said old enough to travel easily, flying with two kids alone! I'm sure lots of parents do it, but I like a partner!  They did awesome for our day of travel and the next day the first stop in Louisville...

 

Louisville Slugger Museum.  I'm sure you'll never guess who was in bat heaven!  Garrett go to see lots of his favorite teams bats on display and we all enjoyed the factory tour of how the bats are made.  Garrett was thrilled to pick out a shirt to bring home and Gannon picked a wood patterned baseball. 

 

Dave was all dressed up because the awards were right after our tour.

 

 

 

Louiseville Children's Museum

Dave and his team had to attend the awards ceremony after visiting the Louisville Slugger museum so the boys and I went across the street to the science museum.  We watched an IMAX movie on the space station Hubble and that was really cool.  After, I was a little nervous when I saw the bus loads of junior high students, but they have a little kid section of the museum so it was perfect!  Our boys love museums where they can explore and play with everything hands on.  Let's just say we were there for almost 4 hours!!!  It was awesome.  It's visiting places like this that make me sad that we don't have anything closer than 2 hours away from home like it.  It was fun to let the boys roam around and explore. Great way to waste some time while Daddy was busy.

 

Corn Maze Trip

The energy and excitement these boys have is crazy! They were very excited to hang out with Kendal and Carson during the FFA field trip to the corn maze.  The kids ran around and through the corn maze all night together.  The pumpkin blasters remain my favorite part of the night.  Gannon loved wearing his head flashlight through the maze and Garrett LOVED the pumpkin pie.  He is now a huge fan of pumpkin pie, which I can't blame him!  We are a lucky family that Dad (and the Atwater crew) let us join them for all the fun stuff!

 

What better way to spend your 8 year anniversary night!?!  I can't believe it's been 8 years.  That's a whole other post!

 

 

 

Matthew's First Birthday

This little guy is SO dang cute and we just love him! I (and his Mommy) wished we lived in the same town so that we could hang out more often, but I LOVE every minute I get to spend with both of them.  Matthew was the answer to his parents prayers and it warms my heart to see what a great Mom Kendra is.  He is the happiest, go with the flow child I have ever met. 

 

The boys had a great time at this baseball themed party and of course Kendra had all the details covered for his party.  My favorite were the French fries that were really sugar cookie strips and the ketchup that was really frosting! 

 

 

Amber and Adam's Wedding

My cousin's daughter, Amber, got married and she was beautiful.  They boys hadn't really been to a wedding that they remembered so it was cute to see them watch.  They talk about people being married, but I knew this didn't know what is was going to mean.  As you can see Gannon was really interested!  He quietly watching Mickey Mouse as Garrett took in the crowd.  My favorite part of the ceremony was the "shot" the bride and her dads took at the start of the aisle.  I always look for something that stands out as different at weddings because that is how I remember the as a unique event.  This was that moment for me!  It was a fun night hanging out with all the family.