Halloween

Happy Belated Halloween! If you can't tell, Clara is a bat. If you saw our previous post, you knew that Clara wanted to be scary this Halloween. Thankfully she was looking through dress ups and found my Brother Lukas's old bat costume from years ago. So I took it in a little and hemmed it a bit, and I also added some purple glitter to be "veins" on the wings- make it a little femminine. I also added the ears. She was pretty darn cute bat.

This is Miss Clara's face covered in Chocolate at 9 PM - She's sitting on Grandma's stairs and totally stoned on candy. Kind of sad but we didn't do our regular Trick Or Treatin', we did Boo at the Zoo in the morning/afternoon and then we did Trunk or Treat at our ward. At this point it started pouring down rain, so we went and visited Grandma and Grandpa (where mommy also picked up the worst stomach bug she's ever had... It's not their fault though, they didn't know it was brewing). We meant to go later, but Gremlins was on cable and John could not be torn away from the television. The girls really didn't care though- it was so cold and wet they were happy to be inside and hand out candy.

The rest of our pictures are from Boo at the Zoo... Here is Edie's tail.

Clara got a great deal of Candy while going around the Zoo. Once we got to the park section she would not be seperated from her loot. She sat in all different places eating her goods until I caught it on camera, which really ticked her off, so she'd try and move to her next hiding place to consume her sugar in privacy and peace....

She ate it on the Alligator back....

The spider web....

The Spider... You can see her displeasure in this shot.

And here we are taking turns riding the Rhino...

She would not look at the camera and smile. This is the best I could get All day long!

She was also SUPER serious when meeting Clifford. Would not crack a smile....

So there you have the pictures from our Halloween. On the Friday before Halloween, Clara's pre-school had a Halloween party and a parade. John got the morning off so he could come with us. I took a bunch of cute pictures and then it was time for the parents to go outside and wait for the parade. During this time Edie got antsy and began playing with my camera. I didn't really mind since it seemed to be keeping her entertained. BUT- she then took off running with it (In her Flamingo costume) and of course tripped on her own stubby legs, and my beloved Kodak EasyShare went flying and was ruined :( I was so sad, for many reasons, I knew we would have to spend money to buy a new camera and mostly because I couldn't take any pictures of the party of parade. So John and I talked it over and decided it would be worth the investment to buy a nice camera- and we would just skip buying each other Christmas presents this year. So we splurged and got a Canon Rebel T1i and I am completley in love with it! John had two lenses from his old Canon camera (not digital very old) so I only had to buy the body. It takes BEAUTIFUL pictures- and it has a HD video camera built right in. I am super excited to use the video camera soon!