Go Hawkeyes!

Let's get this party started!

Hello Aleah, are you ready to cheer with me?

Go Hawks! (a.k.a Hawks Rule!). We are happy to report that the Hawkeyes won the Outback Bowl on New Year's Day! We went over to the Lemke's to watch it and Isabella got to play with 5, yes, 5 of her little friends. Because of all the activity, I must admit I didn't see every play of the game, but that's okay since it wasn't even close and I like watching the kids play and hanging out with our Hawkeye buddies. I knew there was no chance I could get all the kids to actually look at the camera, but I thought it was pretty good that we got them to be all in one spot. It was a lot of fun, we have to get together more often, whether or not the Hawks are on. Isabella has sort of outgrown putting her hands up in the air when we say "Touchdown, Iowa!", but we can still get her to do it every so often.

This makes me realize the football season is over and I hardly blogged at all about the season. Jeff and I went ahead and got season tickets again even though we weren't sure what football season would be like now that we had Isabella. As the season approached, it kind of snuck up on us that we didn't have a babysitter and since going to a football game takes a big chunk of the day, it was going to be hard to find someone. Luckily, the Maine game (we won 46-3), Dano stepped up and came to babysit. It sounded like their day went wonderfully. Thanks Dano - you are truly a #1 babysitter!

The Florida International game (we won 42-0) we had our sitter Cindy come. We actually found her from an ad I put on Craiglist and she has been perfect for us - we really lucked out there. She has two grown girls of her own and you can tell she just loves to watch Isabella.

The Iowa State game (we won 17-5) Grandma Linda and Grandpa Jack were in town for a visit, so Grandma watched Isabella while we went to the game. We were all going to tailgate together, but the rain put a damper on that, but we still got Isabella to her first tailgate when Grandma dropped us off.



For the Northwestern game (we lost 22-17), my friend Stacey was in town and I decided to sell my ticket and take Isabella up to tailgate. The weather was beautiful that day, so that was a good time and we walked and walked and walked since we wanted to visit a couple different people at different tailgates.


For the Wisconsin game (we won 38-16) we had Cindy watch Isabella again. For the Penn State game (we WON 24-23.. it was huge!) Grandma Linda and Grandpa Jack were here again. Thanks Grandma for watching Isabella! (and dropping us off near the stadium in the cold weather!) And for the Purdue game (we won 22-17) Cindy came to watch again. What a season it was!