The Candy’s Almost Gone

Thank goodness!  If I hear anything more about that dang candy I might throw it away.  But not before I dig out all the mini Milky Way bars…

These boys have never even seen Star Wars.  Who cares when you’ve got light sabers?  The boys kept calling my little guy, “The Baby Master”.  He’d say, “I not the Baby Master, I YODA!”

Mark Antony didn’t stick around after the party to be photographed.  I guess hanging out in a “dress” isn’t his thing.  I can’t complain, he put the costume on and wore it for three hours.  

I love our Halloween traditions – going to the Bean’s for homemade  doughnuts, trick-or-treating, then heading to Red Robin for dinner afterward.  I can’t even say how nice it is that my kids are old enough to just sit and hang out.  We colored and talked and had conversations!  Don’t get me wrong, I hate that they’re growing up.  But I sure do love the people they’re becoming!

Wonder what we’ll be next year…

My Neck Of The Woods

I was so excited to see that a bunch of my friends are still around!  I know that probably makes me some kind of nerd of the most embarrassing nerdy kind, but I really did miss all of my bloggin’ buddies.  My computer had an “accident” at the same time that I began my blogging hiatus and all of my RSS feeds went who-knows-where.  So I was only able to check in sporadically on the people whose site I had memorized.  Anyway, I missed all y’all.

Speaking of y’alls and all y’alls.  I’m moving to Texas.

When I tell people that I’m moving to Texas I get varied responses, but mostly it’s, “Why TEXAS?”  For some reason people seem to think of Texas as a scary wasteland full of big hair and matchy-matchy shoe/purse/belt combos.  I’ve been seeing a lot of raised eyebrows and flared nostrils lately.  Apparently Texas is an aberration to my fellow moldy-toed Seattleites. 

So I’m beginning to wonder if it’s just Seattleites that have such a bad impression of Texas, or is it that northerners in general dislike the south?  The first thing I’ve heard most people say is that it’s so humid in Texas.  Hmm.  Well, I went to Austin, which is where we’ll be relocating to, and the humidity didn’t seem much different to me there.  The sunshine was different though.  And yes, it was hot.  But it’s like, 75 degrees during the day there right now!  And sunny!  Swimming pools!  Air conditioning!  Sun! 

Let’s see, what else is new?  Oh yeah, I got an iPhone!!  Where the heck has the iPhone been all of my life?  How have I lived?  How have I functioned?  How have I not watched YouTube while I grocery shop?  I don’t even know.  And if you’re wondering: No, I do not feel the slightest bit peevish that my husband works for Microsoft and I have an iPhone.  It’s that cool.  Plus he bought one too.

There’s so much that’s happened in the last few months and I don’t have time to catch up on everything right now.  Upcoming installments will include things like:

• more on my new iPhone
• my lazy, lazy summer
• my new photography business!
• holy cow I’m going to Europe!!
• big Texas hair tutorials
• why I love that Hannah Montana climb song

Well, you know.  That’s just an outline.