Happy Halloween!

Although you may be inclined to look over your shoulder and double-check the date on your calendar, please rest assured that it is, in fact, January 2012, and yes - you are seeing Halloween content in the midst of all of these Christmas posts. We were going through our many, many pictures and realized that we never posted pictures of Aaron's Halloween 2011 costume. So here are a few pictures Matt took of our little Sock Monkey during our trip to Boo at the Zoo in Boise. If I remember correctly, Aaron's costume cost about $10 to make. All the fabric was either clearance fabric or remnants. And somehow it all worked out even though I didn't have a pattern to sew by. I simply took one of Aaron's old jumpsuits, turned it inside-out and traced the outline onto my fabric. The hat took me a couple of tries without a pattern, but the end result came out great I think. His Halloween pail was originally an orange jack-o-lantern, but with a little bit of extra fabric and a lot of hot glue, it morphed its way into a Sock Monkey.

Halloween Pictures are Here!

Well, Aaron's first Halloween is over, but we have some awesome pictures of it. For those that do not know, Aaron was a monkey for Halloween - complete with a banana and all.

Here's Aaron and Daddy ready to go to the party

The ward Halloween party was really fun. My mom came too to see her grandson all dressed up. Aaron was the cutest monkey there.

The funniest thing was that midway through the party, TWO BIG BANANAS walked in!!! You just know I had to get a picture.



Then we did trunk-or-treat. It was actually my first time experiencing one. For anyone that doesn't know, a trunk-or-treat is the same as trick-or-treating only instead of going house to house, you go through a parking lot from car to car, well, trunk to trunk. Thus - trunk-or-treat. Usually people go all out decorating their trunks. Thanks to Matt, we had a pretty cool trunk. His decorating saved us!! I had all this cool stuff to put up, but no time! They announced for everyone to start going out and trunk or treat and I had NOTHING ready. Luckily, by the time I got out there, Matt was was already out there and ready to go. Decorating problems aside, I really wish someone (::cough cough::...Matt....) would have told me that the trunk-or-treaters go around more than once! I ran out of candy within the first 5 minutes! Luckily my friend Sarah came to my rescue and gave me a whole big bag of candy to continue handing out. I was RELIEVED! PHEW! (thanks Sarah!). Yep - exciting night.

On Halloween Day we went to Matt's parent's house and spent the evening up there. I finally got to take some good pictures of Aaron in his monkey costume.




Here's is Aaron's very first trick-or-treating. (He obviously had no clue what was going on...but it was still cute)



And winding down after a long day....