Whiskers

I had officially closed the Halloween 2011 chapter, thrown a leopard costume on Clara's closet floor, and failed to take down my pathetic decorations, when we were presented with another opportunity to celebrate.  Being that I love to draw on my baby's face and really enjoy free pizza, we were off.

And it's a good thing, because Clara had a blast with her 17 (out-of-26!) cousins.

She had so much fun, in fact, that she would up in a (milk) drunken haze on Grandma's couch, before all of the guests had even departed.  Her costume lay haphazardly on the floor, where some other baby had flung it, and her whiskers were badly faded.  

By the looks of things, it had been a successful party.

Clara managed to put on her most innocent face for the bathtub that night, but traces of fun still remained, paying homage to that first Halloween.

Give Me Your Best Roar

No (Mormon) Halloween is complete without a trunk-or-treat, so we made our way over to the church building on Saturday night.  Our leopard cub was pooped before the party even started.

She eventually woke up and broke into a Halloween sweat.  

(Why do we live here again?)

Minus the sweaty baby, we all had a great night, even though Anson axed my idea to wear our Popeye costumes two seconds after I googled Sweet Pea.  (Granted, it was 45 minutes before the party started.)  I hope to override my Scrooge husband next year and have a family costume.  (I think he might agree to a Star Wars theme?)

I hope you had a great (dressed up) (true October weather) Halloween.

In the Jungle

We started our spooky weekend with a Halloween preschool party.  It was so much fun dressing Clara up in her leopard costume, even though it was the first year that I didn't dress up.  Still, it wasn't half bad being told how cute my sweet baby was all night.  I think she's even cuter than I was when I wore the leopard costume 23 years ago!  (She's definitely fatter!)

Clara had as much fun as a 2 month old could...

.... and then she promptly passed out on her great-grandmother.

It was a fun night for both of us.

Bring on the White Chocolate

After the church Halloween party, I came home and made caramel apples.  I even stayed in my Olive Oyl costume to channel some Halloween creativity!

Did you know that caramel apples are my favorite desert, after creme brulee?  That's quite a range of treats, isn't it?

For my first time, I'd say the apples weren't the prettiest, but they sure were tasty!  I think my Beehives really enjoyed them!

I Yam What I Yam

Finally, here are the picture's from our ward's Halloween Party!

5:30-6:30 - Eating delicious corndogs and homemade root beer.

6:30-7:30 - Carnival in the gym, run by the youth.

7:30-8:30 - Trunk or Treat!

It was really a lot of fun.  I enjoyed running the "Banshee Blow up" booth with Husband.  Two kids would race to blow/pop their balloons by pumping, pumping, pumping on a bike pump!  It was really cute.

Happy Halloween!

Can you guess what we dressed up as?

Stay tuned to find out!

Red and Black, Spider Green

The fact that my only Halloween decoration is a pumpkin cookie jar is a little depressing.

I do love it, though. 

Go Wal-Mart!

What I really wish is that I could go to Disneyland for Halloween.  You don't understand how badly I want to go.  I don't even mention it to Husband anymore because I'm pretty sure he wishes Disneyland didn't even exist, since I talk about it so much.

Seriously, though, they turn the teacups into spinning pumpkins, the cast of Nightmare Before Christmas is walking around, and all the characters have costumes.  I need to go to this.

I also need to visit a pumpkin patch and corn maze.  I have wanted to go for years, but everyone thinks they are lame.  I'm pretty sure I need kids.  Then I can use them as an excuse for doing childish things.  Win.

On another Halloween note:

My Husband is going to have the most embarrassing costume ever conceived.  How am I supposed to match that?  I always dreamed of doing the cute, couple costume thing, but that is obviously not going to happen.

Stay tuned for the Halloween disaster.