What's a Halloweenie?

Ciara didn't have school on Halloween this year because of Parent Teacher Conferences

(By the way.... she got her first report card and she's doing really well. You guys wouldn't believe how much she's learned since the beginning of the year. It blows my mind!) so we went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo with Liam's family.

It was tons of fun!

There were 7 kiddos total and they had a blast running around with eachother. It's so nice for Ciara to have kids her age to play with outside of school!

The Zoo here has the coolest Giraffe Petting Zoo! Ciara got to feed them and was totally grossed out when one wrapped it's tongue around her entire arm. Giraffe's are no longer her favorite animals... she likes the Meercats the best now because they don't have " gross snakey tongues".

The whole Zoo Crew except for me (I'm taking the picture) and Eric. Where's Eric?

After the Zoo we came home and Ciara got dressed up and went Trick-or-Treating. Her costume kinda took on a life of it's own. She started out as a Punk Rock Fairy... but we couldn't find the right wings... so she wanted to be a Princess. Then she fell in love with a pair of purple and black striped Nightmare Before Christmas socks... so we bought those and the princess was out. Then she wanted a Orange and Black feather boa... so we got that too. I made her a purple and black and orange tutu and by then end no one had any clue what she was.
So we called her a Halloweenie... because it seemed fitting!