Life in Indiana

The weather has been relatively nice since we arrived here last month.  Which has softened the blow of moving away from our family and friends in Lexington.

We have been spending a lot of time outdoors exploring our neighborhood and playground.  Owen loves that we can ride our bikes around the corner and be at the playground.  He will especially like that this summer we can ride our bikes to the pool.

This is our neighborhood playground (I took these photos over a month ago so it is much more green now)...

 The neighborhood clubhouse and pool - which also has a baby pool...  (Owen asks almost every morning if the pool is open yet).

We have been exploring Indianapolis by making many visits to the Children's Museum...

And Urban Chalkboard, the greatest children's place I have ever been to.  It is a modern cafe for parents and a play place for kids.  There are magazines that interest a young mom like myself (and I specifically am talking about US Weekly and People Magazine), and yes I actually got to read while my kids played happily.  Urban Chalkboard has a studio where they have music class, book club, story hour, etc.  It is so much fun and the boys absolutely LOVE it!!

We have also been exploring the city by bike.  We bought a bike trailer and a couple of new bikes for Brad and I.  It takes us about 10 minutes by bike to get to downtown Carmel from our house.  We ride through a couple of neighborhoods to get on the Monon trail - which runs from downtown Indy straight north through a few different suburbs up to Carmel and even further north beyond Carmel.  This summer we will look forward to riding bikes to breakfast, the farmer's market, and we could even hit up some breweries on the trail if the kids cooperate.  

We stopped along the trail for some coffee and smoothies...

And found a train museum that we had to stop and see...

During our bike ride last weekend the Carmel marathon was going on.  The boys loved being in the middle of all the action and cheering on the runners while listening to music along the way....

Here are some pictures of the Monon trail in Carmel - it is such a beautiful ride, I can't wait to go further on the trail and do some more exploring...

We have been spending a lot of time with our friends from Martinsville....

And spending time with Pop Pop in Martinsville...

Grayson even got to ride...

We have been to Lowe's more times than I can count - the boys don't mind at all...

 We also received a pretty awesome hand-me-down from the Majors family - our new bounce house.  We are actually using this as a ploy to make friends with the neighbors.....

And we have been playing a lot in our nice, big, flat driveway...

The boys have been adjusting well to the move.  It took Owen a few weeks and he still tells me that he does not live in Indiana, he lives in Kentucky.  But finally he is no longer screaming at bedtime or throwing major fits.  He usually chooses one (or 5) of favorite toys and plays in his room for a while before falling asleep.  Whatever works.

We are excited for the weather to warm and to spend more time exploring this new city of ours.