Rainy Halloween

Usually rain during harvest season isn’t welcomed.  Even a little bit of rain can put a damper on soybean harvest and rain means muddy fields for corn harvest which is never good!  But I did jump a little joyfully when it started raining the night before Halloween J  Brad had just called and said they finished harvesting all soybeans and about 30 minutes later the rain began.  And it rained a lot!  But, even though that brought harvest to a standstill it meant we could catch up on some much needed family time (not in the combine, ha-ha).

So it worked out perfectly; Brad couldn’t be in the fields because of the rain so together we took Claire trick or treating.  Going out to do things together, as a normal family would, is a nice change of pace during this time of year!

This year Claire was the Energizer Bunny for Halloween.  If you have spent much time around Claire you know this is very fitting for her.  She just keeps going, and going, and going, ha-ha.  My Grandpa has always said, even when she was very young, that Claire is “perpetual motion”, and he couldn’t be more accurate.

So even though I do like to do a lot of crafty projects I didn’t make much of her costume.  I simply ran out of time.  Instead I pieced together a pink outfit- complete with a pink tutu; even though the real Energizer Bunny doesn’t wear one I thought it was adorable.  Then I added in some black sunglasses, bunny makeup and ears.  The only thing I did make was her drum, which was just an old hat box that I covered with white paper and drew on with Sharpie markers.  The costume was fast and easy and she enjoyed parading around it in J  And, I know she especially enjoyed having her daddy by her side while doing it!