This is Halloween, everybody SCREAM!

Another year, another Halloween! Only some of the kids dressed up, but the staff went all out-- it's days like this that remind me just how much I LOVE my staff!

Brandy as Princess Giselle from Enchanted!

Me as a PANDA!

The Game Room/Carnival Room

Carnival Stop-- Pin the Eye on the Ghost, Feed the Monster, and Drats (darts with sticky rats)

Drats up close

Diana (aka Picabo Street) and Jillian-- I totally dubbed Picabo, Diana was just going to be a skier lol

Farmer Kesler-- moustache and all

Jeremy as Ang, The Last Airbender

Sharon (Cheetah), Brandy, and Jillian

Hunter, Me, Jeremy, Diana, Louis

TP Mummy Contest!

Diana and Jimmy working Feed the Monster

Marcus making his witches hat cookie

Kendra the Kitty (she is the cutest kid at after school after the Salcedos!)

Lilia's Witch

Sharon

Shreya

Chava

Fran paints Isaiah

Jackie paints Malachi

Stephen works Drats

Nia, Kendra, Bridget, and Chava

Octavia-- meow!

Abebech, Alyssa, Sidney, and Emily do their best "hard" face

Lennox the Vamp!

Autumn pulling her sad puppy look

Kurt (my boss/youth minister) looking Grr-y

Me and the Monsters-- I loooove these girls! Their mom and dad are OK, too ;)

Miss Fran grosses out Mr Louis!

'Bout that...

Sorry about yesterday, stomach bug came on fast so I just took promethazine and crashed! For your viewing pleasure...

As with most parades, Violet starts it off asleep on Uncle Jeremy!

And then moves on to snacking. Jeremy stuck a cheeto in there and she sat like this for a few minutes!

Seed and Feed/Marching Abominable, an Atlanta parade staple

The next guy's sign said, "Praise the Gourd"

The boxy superheroes try to out shimmy the belly dancers (below)

Julian was SO excited Scooby Doo came!

The parade ended with the Pirate Reenactors! Yes, they exist!

Coming Tomorrow! I promise!

I know it's been a while, but we did go to the Little 5 Points Halloween Parade today, I promise I'll have pictures up tomorrow! It was a lot of fun, we got to hang out with the kids and Michael and their Aunt Della and her boyfriend Brent AND the weather was perfect!!

Pictures up tomorrow-- I got some pretty good ones with my ol' Fuji, probably it's last hurrah since it's probably going to get sold and replaced with a Cannon point and shoot. They take much better pictures than they used to and the zoom response is starting to lag these days on the Fuji, so we'll see if I can get $100 for it and put it towards a more portable camera than the EOS and the Fuji equally.

Ciao for now!

Storm clouds on the horizon...

We have a lot of friends and family going through some tough times at the moment, and I just wanted to send my thoughts out to them and ask for you to do the same if you have a few minutes!

- Jeremy had to have a basal cell carcinoma cut off his ear today; it's the spot that was burned by the pitot tube a few years ago at the airline, so we expect that it will be an isolated case. Thankfully I'm used to the basal cell removal process due to my mother having so many done, it hasn't worried us too badly.

- My sister in law Sarah isn't feeling very well and is nearing the end of her student teaching to get her degree; I hope so very much for her that she can finish, she's worked very hard towards this.

- Emily lost her job on Tuesday for no particular reason and is now on the hunt again! She's also applying to law school and trying to use this opportunity to do a full time program and get a fresh start.

- A dear friend of ours, I'll keep his name for privacy's sake, is going through a terrible issue with his son's school after his son was molested by another child. The school and DFCS are cooperating, but not offering any information they don't have to. Hopefully, everything will wrap up and their lives can go back to normal. Thankfully his son is young, so he doesn't completely understand what's going on, so a little therapy will go a long way.

- My sister in law Valerie and her husband just found out that one of the children they were trying to adopt from Ethiopia is no longer available due to his orphanage shutting down. They are in the midst of switching agencies again and continuing to try for the second boy they want to adopt.

- Jeremy's brother James is returning home yet again from another stint in supportive care. We hope that things will go smoothly for Marc and Jan in this transition.

- I'm getting the feeling that things may start getting bumpy at work... keeping my fingers crossed!

In good news, it does seem like Marc's (my father in law) surgery has done him some good and putting him on a late-but-great path to better health!

I leave you with one of my favorite Glee covers to date-- "Somebody to Love" (originally by Queen)

Congrats to Laura and Zach Baston!

Middle School us would TOTALLY laugh at Married us-- there may even be some shunning involved. We were SO COOL in MS/HS ;)

I know, not the best, but I don't have another picture of them where you can see them both! Congrats to Mr. and Mrs. Zachary Baston!

Le Baston le Baston hee hee hee haw haw haw...

Felix White!

Congrats to Krystal and Charles on their THIRD beautiful baby!

Felix White, Oct. 2, 2010