Chili Cookoff!

WE DID IT!!! TJ and I participated in our 1st ever chili cook off and it was a HUGE success!! :) We had SO much fun together! :)
Matt stopped by at 10:30am on Sat. morning and told us about it, we headed up town to see what was going on. Then continued our plans and went to Marshall. We decided around 11:30 that we should enter it! So luckily we have some pretty awesome friends... Matt registered us and Darren and Erica let us borrow their camper! :) We headed to Hy-vee as I called Tiffany to buy the groceries that we needed (she had an awesome recipe for chili)! :)

The cook off started at noon and judging took place at 5:30pm.
Well the kids fell asleep on the way home from picking up the camper so we stopped at home, put the kiddos to bed for naps and got the rest of the things we needed. Thankfully we have an awesome sitter who was able to come hang out while the kids napped.

We arrived up town at 1:30pm. Almost everyone was done cooking their chili. But it was so fun!
TJ and I had the best time together and it was fun creating our very own special recipe (I am not sure if I could ever duplicate that same chili)! There was so much random dumping of the spices! hehe

The kiddos walked down with Katie after nap in time to try the chili and play with the other kids! It was the best day! :)

Judging started at 5:30pm, we drew number 7 (out of 18 teams). Our chili was judged around 6:30pm. Then around 7:30pm they came and asked us for another sample!
We couldn't believe it!!
At 8pm we all headed into the bar with all of our chili for everyone to sample and to hear the results!
They started with 6th place- a tie (each getting $20). 
Then they said 3rd place-- TJ and Heather Gniffke! We were ecstatic!! WE COULD NOT BELIEVE IT!! :) We also received $120 for winning!! :)
AMAZING! :)

Here are a few pictures from all the excitement! Click here to see more from the cook off!

1:3Opm getting ready to start :)

TJ and Matt checkin out the chili, Sarah and Maisie in the background

Ashtyn and Brayden were being soo good so they talked us into letting them get their own soda from the machine!

Some entertainment as we were waiting for the judging to begin!

Thanks to Dillon and Sarah for letting us use their camper to brown our hamburger!

Ready for judging! :)

It's time!! :) Getting the samples ready to be judged!

3rd place BABY!!! WOOOHOOO! :)