Happy Halloween

What a great second Halloween we had with our monkey, Josiah. It started with Rich taking a half day so he could bring Josiah to a Halloween party at my office. Joey had such as great time. When the trick or treating began he followed the bigger kids into the first office and laughed as they said "trick or treat" and got their candy. No "trick or treat" for him though. He just kept on laughing and followed them out. He sort of got the hang of it after a while. There were about 14 kids that ranged in age from 3 months to 8 years. We had a crab, shark, flower, skunk, bat, Batman, princess and many more costumes! The kids got pumpkin bags filled with balloons, bubbles and some other treats.




From there we headed to Grandpa Joe's where I let him have 2 bites of a kit kat bar. Of course he loved that! We stayed long enough to have a soda (me) and beer (Rich). Once we left Grandpa Joe we headed over to Abuela Toni's. We had dinner and got to hang with Josiah's cousin Pia. She is 6 months and dressed up as Mickey Mouse. She looked SO cute! Ethan also dropped by with his mommy and daddy. To our surprise both boys were monkeys. They looked super cute together! Joey's Cousin Angelo also made an appearance as a firefighter. What a busy trip to Grandma Toni's!




Once we left Abuela's we headed to Grandma and Grandpa Cook's house. Joey got to see his cousin Aviva. She was dressed up like a princess. She even wore Great Gran's earrings. She looked so pretty. Gran would have loved it! We passed out a bit of candy and then headed for home. Unfortunately, we didn't get any pictures of Vivy; she had a bit of an accident and changed as soon as she got home. She was very upset that she the princess had an accident. We had to remind her even pretty princesses have mishaps!

Just as we pulled into the driveway we saw Jack the Choo Choo, Jess and Jose. They were heading back from trick or treating. They joined us for a little more trick or treating around the neighborhood and them came over for a bit. We let the boys burn off a bit more energy and then we all headed to bed after a long, fun Halloween!

Choo Choo

Josiah is learning so many new words each day. I love coming home and hearing some of the new words he's picked up during the day.

He recently learned what a train is after seeing one in real life. From the moment he saw it he was hooked! That weekend we took him to the Orchard Town Center to ride the choo choo. He is so funny though because he never really smiled. This was serious stuff!

Last weekend we visted a pumpkin patch near our home and they had another choo choo but this time he had to ride alone. I thought he might be scared but again, he was very serious and had lots of fun. We know because he cried when he had to get off of the train.


We are really enjoying our little man. Here he is my favorite Halloween outfit. This was purchased with lots of love by Grandma Sue.

Autumn Fun

Our family headed to Breckenridge the last weekend of September. We were joined by our good family friends, The Licata's. We had a fantastic time!

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August Fun

We had a fun filled month! It started with Josiah trying out his new ATV from his Cousin Tina. As you can see below if is a hit. So much that we had to bring it inside the first night we had it up and running. Josiah thinks is an ATV Pro!


The following weekend we headed out in the pouring rain to Lafayette's Annual Peach Festival. We had the pleasure of taking Josiah's buddy and our (soon to be) Godson, Jack with us. It only rained for a bit. We stopped for lunch and once were done the rain was gone and the sun was shining. It ended up being a beautiful day! Unfortunately, I left the camera on the kitchen table so I only have pictures of before we headed out but as you can see the boys looked really cute in their raincoats! The following day we joined the Greco's for Aston's sixth birthday celebration!We had lunch at a great little mexican restaurant. Josiah always loves hanging with Ashy, Tristan, Chloe and Owen.

Football!

Fall is in the air and what better first sign than football! Joey attended his first tailgate party for the CU vs. CSU game (GO BUFFS) over Labor Day weekend. We had lots of fun. We drove down to Denver with Grandma Toni and met Uncle Ted (the tailgate KING), Auntie Mary, Connie, Jerome, Laura, Garfield, TJ, Ian, Sandra and Chris.

Hanging out with Auntie Mary and Ian

He had a great time watching the CSU marching band and kept signing for more once they were gone. My guy loves his music!


Joey and Grandma

We didn't stay for the game though. No naps and a 4 hour football game didn't sound like such a great idea! All in all we had a fantastic day and can't wait for his first actual game when Daddy can join us!

Josiah's First Family Vacation

We took our first family vacation this past July. I sweated for months about how Josiah was going to do on his first plane ride. To my pleasant surprise he did great! We left home around 8:30 as our flight was at 10:30 and we were parking in a lot that required us to take a shuttle to the airport. I was careful to not let Joey fall asleep on our ride to the airport. Everything was so new to him once we were at the airport so he had no problem with staying awake. Once we were seated on the plane and about to take off I nursed him and he was asleep before the plane left the ground. SCORE! He slept for about an hour and once he was up we played, looked out the window and had a snack. Then we landed. It was perfect!

Once we arrived, we got our bags and headed to the grab our rental car. Then we were off for our long weekend of FUN!

We headed down to Agoura Hills to our hotel. We checked in relaxed a bit and then headed to Burbank to meet the rest of the family for dinner.
After dinner we did a little bit of shopping in downtown Burbank and headed back for the evening.

Saturday morning we woke up early (6 a.m. Hello time change) and headed out for breakfast and the beach! Malibu was so beautiful and Josiah just loved the ocean! He was a bit skeptical at first but once he realized he was in good hands he had a ball! We headed back to the hotel full of sand. A sure sign a good time was had by all!



Then we ventured off to do some outlet shopping. Daddy and Joey bought matching Lacoste shirts and Mama came home with a new Coach wallet. :)

Saturday was the big Christmas in July party for Cousin Merrie. It was held at her friend's home in Tarzana. What a beautiful house with a pool and tennis court and the most pretty rose garden!

Josiah loved blowing bubbles and playing in the large back yard. We had a lovely Christmas dinner of turkey, green beans and sweet potatoes. Unfortunately, we called it a earlier night than Rich and I would have like but Josiah was tired after a busy day!

Sunday morning we were up again very early and had some pool time before a big breakfast with the family. This was the day everyone (but us) was heading home. We said our goodbyes and wished everyone well!


Then, we packed up and moved down to Redondo Beach for the last 2 days of our vacation. Once we arrived we walked down to the beach and took in some sights. Later that evening Josiah go to meet some more of his family. This time from Mom's side. We saw our Cousin's Kevin and Josh and met our newest cousin Andrea (Andie), Kevin's daughter and Josh's 1/2 sister. We also had the pleasure of meeting Rita, Kevin's better half. :) What a great little family!

We had dinner at the Redondo Pier and headed back to the hotel for a little R & R before our finale...DISNEYLAND! Oh...and the earthquake!

More later!

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