Happy Halloween 2012

Mikey and I have always had fun with Halloween.  For some reason we love to dress up this one time a year.  It's just one of our things.  To see our costumes from past years, click HERE, HERE, and HERE.  However, with as much fun as we've had together on Halloween, this year we discovered that Halloween is SO much more fun with a baby.  Even though Stockton really didn't understand why his mommy kept changing his clothes all day and even though he isn't into trick-or-treating yet, it was one of our favorite days as a family.  I had so much fun playing dress-up with my Stockton-doll all day. 

Halloween Morning

One of our good friends, Marta, who was also one of Stockton's nurses when he was born, gave Stockton this cute little first Halloween outfit.  Thanks, Marta!

Halloween Afternoon:  Costume #1
We bought this little Roo costume after Halloween about 5 years ago.  It's just been hanging out in our costume box waiting to be used.  We had to get out Roo's little friends for a quick photo.

Costume #2:

When Mikey was about two years old his family had their family photo taken in cute little Hawaiian outfits like this.  When Mikey saw this little red outfit on eBay, he had to buy it for Stockton! 

Halloween Evening:  Costume #3

And here is the official-official costume.  This little lobster costume is another costume that I've been waiting to use for years.  I bought it at The Garden Path when I worked there several years ago.  Even though we didn't have a baby, I just had to buy it.  Stockton was the cutest little lobster and Mikey and I were chefs!  We joked that we baked our lobster for 9 months.  Haha.

We didn't really go trick-or-treating per se, but we did walk around the neighborhood and visit a couple friends in our ward.  Can you believe it was warm enough to leave Stockton's little legs exposed?!  It was the most beautiful Halloween weather I have ever seen!

Couldn't you just eat him up?!

One of our traditions is to meet all the Petersons at Mikey's parents' house to see everyone's costumes before trick-or-treating starts.  

This year a friend of a friend made this kissing booth that attached to Mason's wheelchair.  It was super cute and super thoughtful.

Our friends Devin and Marianne came by to say "Hi!"  Their twins, Avalyn and Jensen, were the most adorable little chicks you can imagine.  Holy cow.

After visiting with the Peterson Clan we headed to my sister Lynette's home for more Halloween festivities.  My parents just returned home from a trip to Egypt, Jordan, and Israel, thus their very authentic Halloween costumes!

Elizabeth and sweet little Indian Callie

Davis' official costume (though he changed several times throughout the evening)

The trick-or-treaters (Cody, Kahler, Braden, Emmie, Hailey, Andy, and Allie)

Grandma Lasson and Callie

Allie and Davis getting some good play-time with Stockton

Lynette carrying on Grandma Verda's Halloween tradition.  Grandma always had soup and spudnuts at her house on Halloween.  Grandma always made holidays special!

A couple nights before Halloween we went on a Halloween Cruise down the Provo River with my sister, Lynette, her kids Braden, Hailey, and Kahler, and my brother, Russ, his wife, Elizabeth, and their kids Davis and Callie. It was way past Stockton's bedtime, but he did a great job! I'm sure it helped that the weather was fantastic! He enjoyed looking at the lights and jack-o-lanterns that lined the river.

BYU Away Games

Stockton was born into a family of BYU fans. This football season he even went to three home games and did a great job! I'm sure these were the first of many to come!

Our tradition for "away" games is to watch them at Mikey's parents' house. The typical crowd includes Mikey, Grandpa Russ, Grandma CoCo, Grandma Pete, Aunt Judy, Mikey, me, and now Stockton (and usually Bishop Hecker, but he was out of town)! This was the first away-game-gathering of the season. We discovered, though, that even if it's a really good game, Stockton is half of the entertainment!

Stockton & Grandpa Russ

Cuddling with Dad

Mikey's darling Aunt Judy

Grandpa Pete & me--Forever Friends

Watchin' the game with Dad

Quite the Distraction!

TOUCHDOWN!

95-year-old Grandma Pete is one of the biggest BYU fans EVER!

Stockton 5 1/2 months old

Stockton's First Snow

You know you live in Utah if the first snow falls in October, and then you don't get snow until January! We'll see if that holds true this year.

We were soooo excited to take Stockton outside to experience snow for the first time. He seemed pretty chill about it (no pun intended!). We tried to put some in his hand, but he wasn't too into that. He was just very observant.

Stockton: 10 Days Old

We're back!

I've taken quite the hiatus from blogging, but I'd really like to start again to document our family history.  I'll start with the most important event of the past year--or the past decade--the arrival of our sweet, sweet Baby Stockton back in May!  I'll post hospital pictures later, but here are his newborn photos.  Enjoy! 

Once we got home from the hospital and had settled in for a few days, our dear friend, Marta, came over to take some newborn photos of Stockton.  She did such a great job of capturing his sweet temperament.  These pictures are one of my greatest treasures!  

We absolutely adore our little man.  He is simply an angel. 

Stockton loves his hands.  We could see him holding his hands up by his face in ultrasounds.
It's so cute to see him doing the same thing now.

Mikey's cousin (and my dear friend) Janelle, made the bedding for Stockton's crib.  It is amazing.  She is so talented.  She also made this "Stockton" sign for the "friends shower."  I'm so happy she let me keep it for his nursery!