Halloween Weekend

Well, we are doing great here is sunny Arizona. We just had a record high today of 96°. That is why it is okay for Aaron to occasionally crawl around in his diaper (see below). Nick has been working for a couple of months now as an attorney, but as you can see from the last post, he was just sworn in this past Thursday. He works a lot, but is enjoying what he is doing. Aaron and I are enjoying our time together at home. We have his nine-month check up on Friday so I will update you on all his stats then. He is currently eating anything I hand him. He crawls about a million miles a minute and is also cruising along the furniture. He can wave bye bye (see video), give kisses and dance. He also knows exactly what to do to melt my heart.

Last Wednesday Nick had a couple softball games that Aaron and I enjoyed watching. Well, this particular night it was somewhere around 40°. It was freezing! Especially when we are used to temperatures consistently in the 70s and 80s. Poor Nick had to play in basketball shorts and a t-shirt because we figured when we moved to Arizona we wouldn't need our winter clothes. Hopefully this weekend we can get a few things out of storage. Aaron, on the other hand, was bundled up in blankets.

For our ward party, we dressed Aaron up as a bat, Nick was a vampire, and I was a witch. Because Aaron takes after his parents, his hood with bat ears wouln't fit his head. He still looked very cute!



On the afternoon of Halloween we went to Nick's work party at the zoo. We had a fun time. They had a stingray exhibit that Ben and Nick enjoyed. I didn't really care to touch the stingrays. I just watched and took pictures.

Aaron was a trooper. He only had a short nap before we left. He held in there while we had lunch and walked around the zoo.

Near the cheetah exhibit there was a radar gun. So Nick had some fun running past it. It reminded me of The Office, when Michael and Dwight compete to see who runs faster. Michael claims he ran 31 mph, when the radar really just registered a passing car. It makes me laugh just thinking about it.

Nick just posing for the camera.


Aaron thought the flamingos were interesting. He was very sweet to let me take his picture.

We were beat by the end. We knew we still had a long day ahead of us. We had to find a garage to fix our car (it wouldn't start) and get ready for Halloween!


Later that evening we sat outside and handed out candy. I guess they do that here because the weather's so nice. Tons of people were outside handing out candy and having block parties. Scott came down and hung out with us. I tried to hand out all our candy as fast as possible because we wanted to watch the World Series and go to Cafe Rio. It was so worth it! I love that place.

Nick was really good at guessing all the costumes. He was very sweet to compliment them as well.

I carved the pumpkin on the left and Nick did the one on the right for his company pumpkin carving contest. Nick also made lots of gravestones for our ward party. They turned out great, so we displayed them around the yard with some candles in front of them. He is very creative. It looked very spooky.
Just for fun, here is a picture of Aaron from this morning. Just laughing!


Aaron gets a little video camera shy. He just stops whatever he is doing when I turn on the camera. At the very beginning he waves bye bye and the rest of it he just fake laughs.