Coen the traveler

In a few short hours Coen will be adding another state to his list of places he has been. Illinois! I know, Illinois sounds kind of boring but its impossible to make a list of cities that Coen has been to so we have to do states instead and since Chicago is in Illinois he gets the boring sounding state added to his list. Thats right, Coen's first trip to Chicago. Its kind of funny too, since Josh has never been to Chicago, his 7 month old son will beat him there. We're really not going to be there that long, we leave tonight at 10:30 arrive sometime between 6 and 7 am and head back around 1pm tomorrow afternoon, with Maria! We'll be on the mega bus twice as long as we are in Chicago but I am still looking forward to my trip and to seeing Loyola and riding the Mega bus for the first time. Josh and I are thinking of taking it somewhere for spring break. I'm pretty sure it goes to Arizona, and if we can get $1 tickets, well it might just be worth it.

Coen's first Halloween

For Halloween this year we decided to surprise the grandparents by trick or treating to their house with Coen. Well it didn't go so well. First of all, dad wasn't even there yet and second I think we just pissed mom off because we rang the doorbell, they had just sat down to dinner and the candy wasn't out yet...oops.

So once dinner was finished and the kids were all in their costumes my dad and Josh and I went out trick or treating with the little kids. Coen went out mainly so Grandpa could show him off to the neighbors. What ended up happening though is Coen would be the last one to "trick or treat" at each house and as we stood there saying hi, this is the grandson, the neighbors would continue to plop more candy into Coen's trick or treat bucket (which was, courtesy of mom and dad a kemps ice cream pail, I suggested a pillowcase but no one would get me one.) So Josh and I made out pretty well. On top of all the neighbors candy we managed to score a pretty good load from mom and dad, full size boxes of nerds!