Sunday's Games

After Sunday School and church this morning we had to split up again for soccer games in different cities. Tony and Madison went to our home field for a 4-0 win against Warsaw. Quinn, Pakka and I drove to Fort Wayne (1-1/2 hours) for a 4-2 win against Fort Wayne Blau Weiss. Today's weather was in direct contrast to yesterday with it being very windy, overcast and cold. Thank goodness our nice weather was yesterday!

7 games: 2 wins, 3 losses, 2 ties in a matter of about 18 hours.

I'm going back to work tomorrow to rest up for the next weekend!

Cocord FUTURE Baseball Debut

Quinn played in a U10 baseball tournament on Saturday in Warsaw. It's a 45 minute drive and he had to be there by 7am. Quite the early start on a Saturday! They played 3 games, completely spread out over the day, with the last game starting at 6pm. They lost all 3 games but gained a whole lot of experience. He had fun playing with his friends and it was a beautiful day in the 70's so if you have to spend 13 hours outside... it was great that it was so nice! I was able to be at the 8am and 6pm games. Tony spent the day there with Quinn. I went to Madison's 2 soccer games with her. They play the boys in different positions and he played short-stop and 2nd base in the games I saw. In the second game he pitched and played 1st base.

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Flames Soccer Season Opener

Madison's Flames soccer season also started on Saturday afternoon in South Bend at the Invaders. We tied 2-2. The girls played really well and dominated the whole game. I love to watch Madiso play! After this U12 game, we headed right to Elkhart (30 minutes away) for the U13 game, she doesn't practice with them but they need a few extra legs so she fills in as needed. This team also played well and tied 1-1. Madison and I are realizing that in this crazy weekend of sports openers, we don't even know who they played... ha! Some red team, without their names on their shirts! After this game, it was back to Warsaw to catch Quinn's last baseball game.

The day started at home in Goshen and we went to-Warsaw-Elkhart-South Bend-Elkhart-and Warsaw. What a day! When we finally got home at 10:30, we showered and melted into bed!

Spring Break: Air Force Museum

It's Spring Break here in Northern Indiana. We took our big family vacation to Florida over Christmas so we didn't have any big plans for this week. Madison went with Peyton and her family to Gulf Shores, AL. This is the farthest and longest time away for us... 10 days! I'm not worried about her, but I sure miss her! We all do! Tony and I took Quinn and Nate to Dayton, OH to the Air Force Museum and then on to Cincinnati for a 3 day weekend. We tried to do something that we knew Madison wouldn't mind missing... like spending 7 hours at an Air Museum!! We left on Friday night and spent the entire day at the Air Force Museum on Saturday. It's free to get in! You can't say that about many things any more! They LOVED IT! Quinn was in his 7th heaven of course. It was a HUGE, really really nice museum with 1000's of airplanes! AMAZING! They even got to sit in the cock-pits of 2 jets. Too bad we didn't live closer! Quinn could probably live there surrounded by all those planes. I'm absolutely amazed about how much he knows about those planes. We would round a corner and he would get so excited because he found a .......(and then name the plane)!! And this went on and on and on! You would think that I would be catching on to this by now but I know about 10 different ones and am calling that good. He could walk up to a plane and tell me details about it, why it was flown and something unique about it. That's truly a love for airplanes!

Presidential Airplanes

Definitely the highlight for me was the Presidential Airplanes...all Air Force One(s). These planes are kept in a separate hanger and they only take 4 bus loads over to that hanger each day. We signed up shortly after arriving and after we finished, there was only 1 seat left for the whole day! It was awesome to actually walk in the planes where Roosevelt took his only flight, and to look at the special elevator they installed so that he could use his wheelchair and not be carried on/off the plane. We walked on President Kennedy's plane and saw where they cut part of the bulk head away and then fixed it, so that his casket could rest in the passenger section of the plane, and not be transported with the baggage in the rear. We saw the seats where Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn into the presidency, while Jackie Kennedy stood by, flying the body of her husband home. We walked through 5 presidental airplanes including the airplanes for Presidents Bush, Clinton and Bush. Nate even said, "I can't believe that I'm walking in the same steps where presidents also walked". It truly was an awesome experience! Nate's aerospace 4H poster project is on Air Force One so this was perfect for him! Quinn loved it as well. This museum was completely free... an added bonus!

Games at Dave & Buster's

On Saturday night we went to Dave & Buster's for supper and then all 3 of the boys got their fill with video games. Nate played the claw game until he won this watch. Boy was he excited! Quinn saved enough tickets to buy some Pokemon' cards at the end of the evening. It was a very full but very fun day!

Coco Keys Water Park

On Sunday Tony took the boys to a water park. This is the only picture that I have even remotely close to the water park. I went shopping instead and I'm the family photographer and thus, no pictures! : ) Quinn was really ready to go... wearing his goggles on the way there! They were there from about 11-5pm, and came out starving! On to Montgomery Inn!

Montgomery Inn

It wouldn't be a trip to Cincinnati without a trip to Montgomery Inn for ribs so we went on Sunday evening. Terry & Karla introduced us to this restaurant when we went to visit them when they lived in Cinci. Nate especially loved it. He enjoyed having the bib tied around his neck and loved his pork chop. Quinn, on the other hand, ordered a grilled cheese sandwich! Quite a few years ago (10?) the city had pigs all around town that were painted and decorated so cute. The boys are standing in front of a pig with BBQ all over it's mouth... perfect for a rib place! We enjoyed driving around downtown afterwards. Cincinnati really is a pretty city, at night too!

Creation Museum

On Monday we went to the Creation Museum which is just over the OH - KY border. It is a really unique museum, all focused on creationism, instead of evolution. Ken Hamm is one of the researchers/scientists. I've heard Doug & Jen talk about him before. I don't even know how to sum it all up in a matter of a few sentences. Here are some of the highlights for me.

• Basically was a 3 hour walk through Genesis with life-like people to portray scenes, with lots of scientific research to support creationism.
• The center bottom picture is of one of the few Torah scrolls that was not destroyed even though Saddam Huessein ordered all artifacts such as this to be destroyed when he was losing his power. It is written in Hebrew on sheep skin and several hundred years old.
• There are layers of rock/sand/dirt in the Grand Canyon that are ONLY found in other parts of the country. For example, there is a layer of rocks/dirt that is only found in the SE part of the US. It got there during the great flood and layers of rocks/dirt shifted around.
• There are many reasons to believe that there were up to 50 different kinds of dinosaurs on Noah's ark. I love the picture that Quinn took with the dinosaurs walking up into the ark. (Below the snake, top left). Most likely the dinosaurs were very young, to conserve space. There was a lot of info about Noah's ark. Very interesting!
• The earth is probably around 6000 years old instead of millions, like evolution teaches.
• The Creation Museum has beautiful grounds (think Garden of Eden) and a nice little petting zoo with zorses and zonkeys to pet. (Don't you love those combined names?). Of course you have to have cooing doves too.
• Perhaps one of the most unique things... we ran into 2 families from our area... 5 hours away at a museum! One was a nurse from the hospital. The other was the family who sent their son with Preston to Gulf Shores!

Anyway, those are the highlights. It is a great museum....lots of reading and very educational. We got home about 8:30 Monday night. It was a fun weekend. We declared out loud that you don't have to go South for warmer weather in order to have a lot of fun over Spring Break...even if it was only a 3 day weekend for our trip!