October Madness

October was a very exciting month! Some of the highlights:

-Natalie applying for graduation!!

-Reunion with our friends from the 138th ward

-Urgent care for Uvulitis

-Getting a new nephew--Tyler James Wilson! Congratulations Becky and Jon!

-Matt Gibbons' birthday!

-Going to the dentist and finding out that I really don't have cavities!

-Homecoming!

-BYU dancelab

-Throwing our first Halloween costume party!

Life really has been so good! Here is my new favorite picture of Joshua and mommy:

The reunion that we went to was for the BYU 138th ward and we got to meet up with so many of our good friends. Something that amused us was that there were probably 6 babies there and 2 or 3 on the way. Good old BYU wards!

This is our friend Mindy Vandergraff. She and her husband were married about a week or two before us and our sons were born about 1/2 hour apart. It was fun because Steve saw her Steve in the hospital when Joshua and Braden were both in the nursery.

Steve asked me out to Homecoming this year. By way of invitation, he created a backdrop for my computer that had a big 'Y' on it and said "Natalie, will you got with me to Homecoming?" Naturally, I said yes. We went to the formal dance with 4 other couples: Greg and his date, Elise and Mike, and two other couples that we don't know very well. Thank you Matt and Emily for babysitting so we could have such a great night!

Because Steve and I have been getting really into the books we have been reading, I immediately picked mine up after I was ready to go.

Two pictures that Emily took for us:

We met up with our group at Greg's (Steve's former roommate for those of you that don't know him) apartment and we all went up to Pleasant Grove where a family of one of the guys offered to have us up for homemade pizzas. They were so good and the family was so nice to have us up there!

The dance was in Spanish Fork. We had a blast doing lots of ballroom dance. Steve and I discovered that we don't really know how to dance if it isn't ballroom-related.

Elise and me:

My sweetie and me:

Elise and her sweetie:

BYU did a great job making everything feel like a formal dance including pictures in the gardens. Although this is not actually one of the pictures, we took it while we were waiting in line.

Neither couple had realized it, but Kevin and Kristen ended up at the same dance as us, even though there were 3 to choose from. We must have good taste or something...

(Please note that Steve and I picked the right colors...)

Halloween was so much fun for us! I had never thrown a real party (outside of bridal showers) and I was excited all month about this one!

On Friday, because we had two outfits for him, we dressed Joshua up as a frog. One of the guys from my classes was not thinking about the fact that it was almost Halloween, finally figured out that Josh was in a costume and said "Oh! I just thought you were being one of those weird moms that dresses their kids up, and when you look back at the pictures you say 'Mom, what were you making me wear?'" Thanks?

The Sunday before Halloween, we decided to create our Haunted House. We originally were going to make it all from scratch, but when we found a premade gingerbread house kit, we opted for that.

Joshua discovered pumkins as big as he is. It was fun to watch him try to get his mouth around the pumpkin. Luckily, we washed it really well first.

We were trying to be creative:

Here was our little setup. We made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and a really great pumpkin soup. We also had rolls and water. It was fun to have everyone just eat and chat.

Elise and Mike came as vampires. Mikes cape was really great and Elise actually drew bit marks onto her neck.

Holly Malmrose and Becca McPartland from my classes came as a beach bum and lady bug, respectively.

Alisha Walbrecht was a doll (she was especially convincing when we had her lay down on the couch), Greg Sorensen was a Death Eater, and Alisha's roommate came as Marie Antoinette.

We had some fun with the pictures. I'm voting the Death Eater will win.

Camille and Jason came as the queen bee and Prom King. Camille says Jason doesn't get much into Halloween, but we thought his costume was great.

Any guesses on what Kevin and Kristen came dressed as? Kev was very pleased when I guessed him right off.

(A: Aragorn and Arwen)

I was really quite proud of our outfits. We are all M&Ms. We bought Josh's costume in Las Vegas when we were down there in April and I was able to make the rest. We tracked down white gloves and the right colored shirts and I cut out the Ms and put them on. We had a lot of fun! Thank everyone who was able to come!