Uncle Dillon

My younger brother Dillon came for his spring break. He is such an awesome kid. He's student body president at his high school, valedictorian, plays basically every sport available and is involved in all sorts of different clubs. On top of that he's super spirutual, super smart (obviously), very friendly, very fun and very helpful. We were so glad he came to visit us for spring break. On his second day at our house, Luke challenged Dillon to a puzzle contest. They each had 100 pieces to their puzzle. Game on! They worked fast and furious and Luke finished a few minutes ahead of Dillon. (granted, Luke has done these puzzles quite a few times so he had an advantage for sure, but he is 4 and Dillon is 18...you decide) Luke was so excited when he won, he was doing all sorts of trash talking and also saying that he wants to join a puzzle team and if anyone asks if they can "borrow him" for a puzzle, that we should let them. He kept going on about being the champion and then finally consoling Dillon and giving him pointers. It was hilarious!

Dillon is really into weight lifting. Austin took him to our YMCA while he was here. The boys wanted to dress "just like Uncle Dillon" so we got out a tank top for each of them. Dillon loved showing off his "guns" to his nephews.

This little lady got to meet her Uncle Dillon for the first time. She won him over with her long eyelashes and beautiful smile. Dillon's nickname for her was "Baby Eyelashes".

Austin bought the boys Candyland the other day. In fact, they got it the day Dillon arrived so, as you can imagine, they played it a number of times while Dillon was here. I think Jensen won most and Luke had to be comforted most.

This Japanese structure and garden is on the outskirts of Downtown Des Moines. It's really a neat place though we never figured out why it's there.

Another activity we did while Dillon was here was a group date - and by "group" I mean we got Dillon a date and we took the kids too! The girl was a good sport about it and we had a lot of fun. The bowling alley we went to wouldn't let us use the bumpers but let the kids used a ramp instead. The ramp was totally unpredictable and half the time the kids gutter-balled it and the other half of the time they got a strike. They had fun either way.

In our tour of downtown Des Moines, we also went on this suspension bridge. Pretty cool. Some of the bridge was glass so you could see down into the water. Pretty trippy.

The Iowa Historical museum had a lot of interesting information, as well as this lego construction of the tallest building in Des Moines.

The sculpture garden is always a cool place to show people. Dillon got really "into" it.

Thanks for coming Dillon! We really miss you!