Trunk-or-Treat...and the Great Reveal!

 Claire was a Fairy Princess Ballerina this year for Halloween. I think Mommy had as much fun dressing her up as Claire did! Here we are, getting ready. These are the shoes I showed last night that I sewed.

 Claire in all her Fairy Princess Ballerina glory.

 I would have loved it if she would have let me keep this bow clip in her hair...it matched just perfectly! Alas, it was not to be. :) Oh well.

 Such a happy girl! It's amazing how much difference one year can make. A pea in the pod last year...now a walking (running, really) little ballerina girl.

 Fairy wings! :)

 Daddy and his little girl. :)

 Austin was a pirate again this year. This was our spiffy trunk! :) Austin stayed and handed out the candy...

 while Mommy and Claire walked around and trunk-or-treated! Here we are...matching! :) (Well, sort of.)

Mostly Mommy had to carry Claire. But here is proof that she walked around in her costume at least at first! :) We had a great Halloween trunk-or-treat. Happy Halloween, everyone!

Pumpkins!

 We carved pumpkins this afternoon after visiting with Aunt Shelly, who we are very sad is leaving tonight. Happy Halloween!

 Claire was (slightly) more involved in the pumpkin carving this year.

 She thought it was all very interesting...

 She wasn't quite sure about it...

 And I couldn't honestly say that she really liked the "pumpkin guts." Too bad. That is MY favorite part! Pumpkin mask, here I come!

 Austin's pumpkin.

 Claire's pumpkin.

 Family pumpkins!

All lit up!We were all set for our trunk-or-treat tonight. We are so excited for our own family Halloween!

Trick or Treat...Preview!

Our ward Halloween trunk or treat is tomorrow night. This is a preview of part of Claire's costume that I made tonight. (The ribbon will be trimmed to size tomorrow when I try them on Claire.) What do you think our cute little girl will be this year? :)

Family Time

Austin's family was just here visiting this past week, and it was so wonderful to get to see them! They arrived on Wednesday, and stayed until Sunday. While they were here, we showed off our new house--and Austin and his dad worked on the back shower! :) All the tiles are up now...it is a miracle! :) They worked long and hard on it all day Saturday, when Austin was off from work. It was so nice getting to see almost everyone--we were just missing Denya, Wade & Kimberlea, and Landon & Megan. And they brought the nice weather along with them when they came from Colorado! I'm so glad for family time. :)

Harvest!

 My garden. The far left is the green beans...nothing yet. The middle is the basil that has gone wild!

 Basil close-up.

 Behind the basil by the fence is my favorite--lemon balm! :)

This is about half of the carrots I harvested from our garden yesterday evening. The bigger carrots went into the homemade chicken noodle soup Austin made...it was delicious! We also left the tiniest carrots outside for the little bunnies that live out in our backyard. Happy Harvest! :)