Halloween 2011

The mister and I are not super big into Halloween. I think we secretly wish we were because we come up with great costume ideas, but we just don't have the motivation to actually put forth the effort to create or find costumes.

Luckily for Claire we already had an Arkansas Razorback cheerleader uniform for her and her JuJu (Jared's mom) bought her a pumpkin outfit too. We didn't do much over the weekend, but Sunday afternoon we went to the First Baptist Fall Festival (@ the Razorback Gardens). Jared's parents were working one of the registration tables (they go to church at FBC) and they wanted to show Claire off to all of their church friends. She wore her pumpkin costume for this event.

Claire was the cutest little pumpkin. Most of the games and activities were geared towards older kiddos, but Claire did get her face painted (with a pumpkin) and she threw (more like dropped) some bean bags at the bean bag toss. She watched other kids ride the miniature ponies and the train. I thought about taking her on the train, but I am pretty sure I would not have fit in the little cars.

Jared and I also took our little pumpkin up to the U of A campus to get some picks next to our names on the senior walk. I wish we had taken her while she was in her Razorback uniform, but that is just not the way things worked out. We got some really great pictures of her though. I even found this patch of ivy and we set her in it for some photos.

On Monday I took Claire up to the Tyson 412 office. She was dressed in her Razorback uniform this time. They do a trick-or-treat thing for employees children every year. They had some of the aisles decorated with different themes: Cat in The Hat, Fishing Hole, Scary Halloween theme, etc. Most of the employees had candy sitting in bowls next to their cubicles. It was fun to take Claire up to see where daddy works. We got a couple of treats for Claire and some really cute pictures of her and her daddy at his office.

Monday night (true Halloween night) we hung out at home and passed candy out to the neighborhood kids. Claire even helped me answer the door a couple of times. She also thought she should get to pick some candy out of the candy bowl and subsequently demolished a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. (I think Jared ate it later).

We had a really fun time celebrating our first Halloween as a family of three. Like I said at the beginning of this post, Halloween is not a holiday we put much effort in to, so I am really excited for our first Thanksgiving and Christmas together. : )