I guess we've been pretty busy lately and October went by in a flash, so I will take a few minutes to catch you all up on our lives since the end of September. At 7 months old, Josiah is on the move! He does the army crawl like nobody's business and will love you forever if you hold his hands and walk with him. It is so cute how excited he gets when he is walking! I have a slight feeling he will be doing it on his own in the next few months. Crazy! Just this week he started pulling himself half way up on things, couches, toys, ect. Other big news in Josiah's life is...drum roll please... he cut his first tooth! I cannot believe how fast my baby boy is growing and how big he is already. Hopefully he will let me get a picture of that pearly white soon!
We also celebrated another marriage in the family, my cousin, Ashley, tied the knot on October 22. It was a beautiful day up in Wisconsin and it was fun to be with the family again. Ok people, we have ONE more wedding this year and its next weekend, phew!
This past weekend we had our 2nd annual chili cook-off with our best friends. This year a few of us went to Goebberts Pumpkin Patch beforehand and although it was cold and windy, we had a blast! We then headed over to the Borst's house for the cook-off. 4 couples entered the contest this year and it was no easy task deciding the winner, they were all so delicious. But David remains the reigning champ! We will get you next year bro! And, I don't want to brag or nothing, but my chicken chili won the category for best taste! I'd say thats a winner too! : ) No matter where we are or what we're doing we always have so much fun with our group of friends. We are so very thankful for them!
Monday was Halloween, and even though it is not a holiday to be celebrated in our house, it is still fun to dress up in tasteful costumes and go trick or treating. I always did it as a kid and have great memories from year after year of all the costumes that my mom made my brothers and I, even the palm tree! We always did the trick or treating thing and then went to Burlington to my Mimi and Papa's to have chili and enter the costume contest at the park. I even won a few years! For Josiah's first Halloween he wore his uncle Sean's costume from 20 years ago, extra special! He was the cutest dalmatian puppy around! We drove out to Hampshire to hang out with my family and go treating at a few old time neighbors who loved to see Josiah. It was a fun night!
This whole week Dan has been traveling for work in Minnesota and boy do I miss him! I'm sure if Josiah could talk, he would tell me he misses his Daddy too! But we did spend some quality time with my parents and brothers and really enjoyed that. Plus my mom made some delicious meals!! BONUS! = ) There is nothin like your mom's home cooked dinners! 2:30pm today can't come soon enough though when we get to pick Dan up at O'Hare. Yippee!!
Well I think that covers it, until next time... Asta!
