October Beginnings!

To kick off October, we attended a Chili-Cook-Off/ Family Dance church function last Friday night (Oct. 2). A family what? Yeah...that's what I thought when I first heard about it and immediately had images of brother/sister dances with sister's choice type things coming to mind. Scary..however, I knew we needed to be social and meet people so I volunteered to bring corn bread so that we wouldn't chicken out and not go. haha. It turned out to be soo much fun! Brycen was in a great mood after just waking up from a wonderful nap and sensed that we arrived at church as soon as we walked into the building so he put on his squeals and sang all the way through dinner, which blended in with all the other kids. I just hope he doesn't think he can get away with squealing every time we enter the church building..

We sat with some friends and met some new people at dinner and then after dinner, they turned down the lights, turned on some fun music and whole families just danced together on the dance floor. Kids were doing their crazy hops, spinning, jumping, etc and since a lot of the families that were there had very young kids, the parents usually picked one up and danced with them. Bryce, Brycen, and I were in our own little world and Bryce and I took turns holding Brycen and giving him his first dancing experience. Bryce even managed to hold Brycen in one hand and then country dance with me at the same time at one point. It was a blast, we had some good laughs and it was a wonderful family date.

Dancing with Mommy..

Dancing with Daddy..

Daddy helping Brycen dance...he didn't know what to think about all of this..

They had a picture prop...

Bryce's idea to switch roles but it worked out...just look at the facial expressions...so serious (playing dad) and then goofy (playing baby)

It also happened to be homecoming week for Purdue University and as we were driving home, we realized that we missed the parade/ fireworks that were supposed to be happening Friday night as well. Oh well...we had stopped by Wal-mart on the way home because I decided that it would be fun to make Caramel apples as we listened to the BYU football game that night. Caramel apples are by far my newest addiction and so instead of buying them made...we bought the caramel, had the apples, and dipped them ourselves. So yummy!

As we were making them, we heard fireworks in the distance so we decided to run outside and see if we could see them.. We found them and Brycen was quite fascinated them..he had no idea what was going on but he enjoyed the pretty colors. It was cold though...so I was kinda glad we forgot about the parade :)