Our "Ahh Ahh"

As soon as we saw this monkey costume, we knew we had a winner! Tate LOVES monkeys, although he calls them "ahh ahhs". I think he really enjoyed his Halloween experience this year and loved putting on his costume each time because he knew he was a monkey. Like most people, we took Tate over to our ward's trunk or treat, which was fun...short and sweet. I asked Tate to hold his tail so that it wouldn't get it all dirty and I never saw him let it go (I think he is even holding it in this picture). =) He is a pretty obedient little boy!

On the afternoon of Halloween Tate and I went to visit daddy at work and to do a little more trick or treating. The people at the office usually bring a little candy with them to work to hand out to the kids that come around. Andy is a VERY proud daddy and every time we visit him or go out to lunch together Andy takes Tate around the entire building to see everyone...and I mean EVERYONE. He has been "showing him off" in this manner since he was a new born. I think it is cute that he is such a proud papa. Then we stayed for a company provided pizza party and to watch the video that Andy's group of programmers put together of various employees being scared by an unexpected prank.

After lunch Tate and I rushed over to Wal-mart (ugh), to get various items we needed for dinner. We went over to Tim and Hilary's house this year and Greg and Aimee and their kids came too. I offered to be in charge of dinner to make things a little easier for Hil and we decided to make a Cafe Rio meal served with one of my yummy smoothies. (Thus, the post on those two recipes earlier =). Dinner was AMAZING and the kids/husbands had a blast going around the neighborhood trick-or-treating. Hilary, Aimee and I stayed back to man the porch and hand-out candy which was so much fun! I found out that most people do like Baby Ruth candy bars and that I probably won't name this baby Parker, because the 18yr. old Parker that came by trick-or-treating hated his name growing up (...which is too bad, it is such a good name!)

At one point in the evening, I was the only one sitting on the porch handing out candy while the girls tended to baby Noah. A small group of children approached me with a woman leading the pack. (I will give this to the lady, I was kind of sitting off to the side and in the dark of night...and I was wearing darker eye make-up). Anyways, she started walking up to the porch and from a distance says, "Oooooooh, what do we have here...something VERY SCARY!" I think she choked on the rest of her words as she close enough to see that it was just a very pregnant woman trying to look pretty and dressed up for the holidays. Well, despite being called scary, this was my favorite Halloween to date. We all had such a BLAST this Halloween and can't wait until next year!