Halloween 2009

If you've been around Tate in recent months, you know that he is all about sports. And more specifically, the kid LOVES to play golf. He turns anything that comes close to it into a golf club. I'm not sure where this came from, because Wade doesn't even really play anymore. But somehow, he has a love for all things golf. So when he saw this costume in a Halloween catalog and talked about it non-stop, we knew that was "the one." And lucky for us, his friend Weston had worn it the year before and was so nice to loan it to Tate.

So we had three days of Halloween festivities around here. It started with the costume parade at Tate's preschool. All of the kiddos were pretty cute.

Then on Friday, we continued the tradition for the 3rd year of trick-or-treating at each of his grandfather's offices (Poppy & Grandpa). This year was even more fun because now Poppy's office is also Daddy's office. :)

And finally the real deal...Halloween. I have to say that this year was so much fun for him and us. One year makes a big difference, because last year he was kind of oblivious to it all. This year he got it. It was so fun to watch him walk up and say (or yell) "trick-or-treat!" The evening was made even more fun since his pumpkin friends, Weston & Taylor, got to come along. They all had a blast. In fact, I don't have many good pictures of the evening because they were running full speed from house to house. Such good friends!

There were a couple of houses that had some greeters open the door with big masks on. That gave everyone a little scare. You can't see it in the video (I had some reassuring to do), but both of the boys quickly ran the other direction as soon as the door opened. Thankfully the second they realized the trick-or-treaters were little kids, they took off the masks. And thankfully, we all recovered and moved on to the next house.

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And just to document and remember the big news story of 2009, this was posted in front of a house.

And of course, the best part of the night is finishing up and checking out your loot back at the house. These boys scored big with a few full-size candy bars and a ginormous rice krispie treat. A fun finish to a fun night!