Zip Line at the Super Bowl

Indianapolis was hosting the Super Bowl last week and part of Super Bowl Village was a Zip Line.  It was an 800 ft zip line through downtown right over the heart of Super Bowl Village.  Ben, Ella and their friend Blake went with us and braved the ride.

Ella was doing great until the walk up to the top of the tower.  About halfway up she started to get a little freaked out and started saying she didn't want to go.  Lucky for her, our Zip Line guide moonlights as a therapist. He spent over 15 minutes (much to the despair of the people waiting in line behind us) trying to calm her down and build up her courage to do it.

After the 15 minutes pep talk and building up of trust, he had Ella close her eyes and then he pushed her off the tower down the line without warning. Ella did NOT like that.

A few thought about the Zip Line experience:

• What are the hard hats for?  If you somehow fall from the line, that helmet is not going to a thing for you.
• They had NO rules for what I could bring on the zip line. They let me hold my Flip Cam while riding. If I dropped that thing over the crowd from that height it would have seriously hurt someone.
• The Zip Line was cool but there were people who waited over 7 hours to ride.  No way I am wasting 7 hours of my life for a 30 second ride.

So glad we got to do it. Ben called it "The coolest thing I have ever done".

Alone Time

The kids can never agree on what movie they want to watch on the Netflix app for iPAD.  So Caroline snuck off with the iPad where she could watch the movie she wanted.

Caroline sitting in our empty bathtub watching a movie on the iPad

The newest Mowrey

Last week we adopted Poppy. She is a 1 year old Yellow Lab. She is such a great dog and the kids are having a blast with her.

Touchdown!

This fall we have been playing a lot of football in our backyard with the neighborhood kids. I haven't been thrilled with the quality of celebrations after touchdowns. I thought it was time to improve in this critical aspect of the game so we took an afternoon and just practiced touchdown celebrations.

Mowrey Pyramid

For Family Home Evening this week, Caroline was in charge of the activity. She decided it would be cool if we made a family pyramid. After I gave up trying to convince the kids to let me be on the top of the pyramid we attempted to pull it off.

Lily had the job of hitting the timer button on the camera and then hustling over and climbing to the top of the pyramid before the timer went off.

We got the picture in one take - amazing.

Happy Halloween

As you can see Caroline went as a Cowgirl this year. Ella was a pirate and Lily was a rock star. You can also see in the background that Ben went as Peyton Manning with a neck brace.

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UFC - Mowrey vs Mowrey

Just another normal Saturday afternoon at our house.

Caroline's front tooth has been ready to come out for almost 2 weeks now. Yesterday we decided to speed up the process.

Caroline's Birthday gift to me

Caroline made me these coupons for my birthday today. It wasn't until she told me to lay down and started rubbing my neck that I realized I was not getting an Orange Juice.

Thanks Coco.

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Cirque Du Soleil Dralion

Took the kids to Cirque Du Soleil Dralion tonight. Quote of the night: "It would be cooler if those rings were on on fire" - Ella.