Make A Wish Football Game

We had beautiful weather for the annual Make A Wish Football with the Hawkeyes. The morning started out chilly and clear, but by the time the game started we were in short sleeve shirts and wishing we had brought hats. By the end of the game thick cloud had rolled in, but it was still nice and warm.

They took this picture right after we walked in the room. Simeon had already run off to play and Ammon looks pained, but he was excited to be there.

The day always starts out with a tailgating party in the field house. They have a jump house, activities and food before the game.
The families all sit together on the bleachers in the north end zone. Our seats get us down at field level, and mine also came with a big black padded goal post view!
During the game the kids did really good watching the game. Rebecca preferred to sit on dads lap, especially when he came back with popcorn and peanuts. She walked between us and sat with us, and we even tried to convince her that the popcorn bucket made for an awesome hat. We didn't get her interest in that very long! Corrine was a good sport about wearing the hat to make her laugh. She also took quite a few pictures on the camera. Lots of legs, sky and up close shirt shots! I took her out to go to the bathroom one time, and we stayed out and played for a little bit. She really liked when they did "I-O-W-A" around the stadium. We were "I", so she got to raise her arms up high and yell "I".

Here's a collection of the shots Rebecca and Ammon took at the game.






Ammon also got alot of pictures with the camera. He got more field and sky pictures. In the 4th quarter we were grateful for Angry Birds on Johann's phone to help him not be so bored. I thought sitting there for the entire game was hard!
After the game we went back to the tailgate party. The dance team, cheerleaders, Herky the mascot and the freshmen football players came to see us. The cheer squad did some routines for us and met with the kids. Then the football players signed autographs and we took a group picture with them.
Rebecca kept watching Herky at the game, pointing him out and waving to him. At the tailgate party he came to visit. She was waving at him and said she wanted to meet him. When it was her turn she ran right up to him and gave him a HUGE hug. The moment she let go, her eyes got huge and she looked scared and ran right back to me. From then on she would wave from a distance, but didn't want to get too close to him!



Corrine and her friend Mikayla (leukemia survivor) spent a lot of time in the jump house. Rebecca was in playing with them going up and down the slide. Mikayla and Corrine are just a few weeks apart, and Simeon loves to play with her older brothers.

It was such a fun day seeing lots of friends. We're very grateful that Make A Wish provided this day for our family. Going to a Hawkeye game wouldn't happen for a our family if it wasn't for this group.