Happy Halloween

Lucian's work held a costume contest last Thursday for which we created a pretty great costume. He decided to go as a Chilean miner, but we didn't think that was enough to win the contest. However, we thought having his own rescue capsule would put it over the top.

After lots of research and elbow grease, we bought coveralls, had a t-shirt made and constructed a one-of-a-kind capsule from lattice and foam. Turns out another co-worker (and friend) had the same idea. Here are some photos of the 2 costumes. Unfortunately neither of them won.



With everyone recuperating from colds and stomach bugs in our house, we took it easy this weekend. We cooked meals at home, played in the yard, ventured out to get Claire her first pair of real shoes and visited a pumpkin display briefly Saturday night.

Claire wore some black cat ears and helped me hand out candy for a bit. Trick or treating was exactly during her nap time, so she only helped for about 30 min. I was amazed she put candy in the kids' bags. Below she is checking out a box of dots that I ate. No candy for this baby, although she did get a taste of a Kit Kat after biting through the wrapper!

Bundled up to see the jack o'lanterns

Claire loves to play at the computer. She must observe us closely because she types and moves the mouse around as if she's actually doing something. It's funny to watch.

We picked up a new lens for our camera that Lucian tested out this weekend. Here are a few shots I thought were fun.