we keep meaning to send christmas cards every year but we never get around to it.  i think we should definitely send them out this christmas, and this can be on the front.

notice how kevin clearly has no beard.  how did i not observe this, especially since he was standing right next to me shaving it off???!

we really, really have to buy mollie a new costume next year.

it’s now tuesday; the massage seminar was really good; i’d been dreading it, afraid it was going to be boring and awful, but it was very good.  but when i got home i was too exhausted to post anything.  instead, kevin and i watched harry potter #6.  i’m almost ready for the new one that’s opening this month, except i think i’d better re-read all the books.  i need to get cracking on that.

tim and gena – tim is, of course, a cereal killer.  gena is a peacock, but the funny thing is that in the orange lighting her wig looked pale orange.  she was horrified about this when she realized it.  luckily it looks purple when you take a picture; otherwise it would have been ALL RUINED.  gena brought some delicious sugar-free dessert dip in a pumpkin.  she did this for kevin, and she’s always incredibly thoughtful and nice like that.  kevin, of coure, managed to scarf down many sugar cookies.

bev as a cute french maid.  the funny thing is, this isn’t a wig – the last time i saw bev her hair was longer and blonde.  she finally said this was her REAL HAIR.  it looks good.  that’s randy, janice (archie bunker) and roger, who was elton john.

ok, though, look at randy’s costume.  can you guess what he was?  i was going to give you a lengthy explanation about his whole costume deal, but why don’t you post a comment with what you think he might be.  i’ll reveal it in my next posting.

lori ann and bev; i thought they looked like the hired help.

kevin and his new girlfriend amy.  i’m glad she’s named amy because i’ll always remember her name, so hopefully he’ll keep her.

thom  and shirene, Jeeves and a french maid.  he made a good jeeves, except i don’t recall him speaking with an english accent.

gloria and jim, medusa and a…roman soldier?  gloria’s dress was great – she said it was part of the costume,but i said it looked nice, and she could wear it if she’s a bridesmaid or something.

ann and frank.  he was a magnet and she was steel.  she made me think of when i was a kid and made my barbies elaborate dresses out of aluminum foil.

here’s mom, a crazy-looking wizard.  i know she was obsessing about getting good stars for her hat, but during the party i didn’t even notice them, even though i must have taken this picture.  they turned out well.  her wand is a flamingo, naturally.  i know she was going to have a moustache as well as a beard and i don’t know what happened about that.  although you can’t get a good view of it, her cane is also a flamingo.  she’s also wearing her ruby slippers from when she was dorothy last year.  so she’s kind of a gay-themed wizard, isn’t she, with her pink flamingos and her ruby slippers.

keith, katie and john.  i have other, better, pictures of keith and his fabulous tattoo costume.  keith likes to be really really scary for halloween but for some reason has gotten it into his head that if he dresses scary any more, i won’t invite him back.  i was VERY scared and didn’t even know who he was at our first party, but really, i’ll always invite him back.

katie is snookie, and i guess i’ve only seen the guy on saturday night live being snookie from “jersey shore,” but i told katie that i know she’s much cuter and less orange than the real snookie.  she MADE john’s popeye costume, which is fantastic, but he really should have gotten a hat and had a squinty eye.  and carried a can of spinach!  but the arms are great.

i love this picture because lori ann was trying to duck out of the picture, but instead it looks like john has clobbered her with his massive forearm.

bev, lady liberty, and jim.

amy and me! amy would have gotten many many more costume awards if she’d gotten to the party earlier.  she still won “most creative.”  we really wanted a picture of the two of us, but randy barged into the picture and dragged jessica with him.  i’ll crop them out for a picture to hang, but on the other hand they do look funny.

amy, as usual, went all-out on her costume.  she was trying to plan ahead this year, but she spent most of saturday running around buying stuff.  she made those fabulous eyes, and spent hours on her green nails with stripes.  i didn’t burst her bubble and tell her that probably nobody noticed the nails (like they also didn’t notice my black nails).

actually, i could photoshop randy and jessica right out of the picture.

and that’s all the photos for now.  i haven’t taken down any decorations yet, and i’m not really looking forward to that so much., but it would be nice if they were gone now.  it shouldn’t take so long, but i’m not in the mood for it right now.  kevin went off to piano class this morning and i’m thinking of taking mollie running over to meet him but it’s SO COLD outside and i’m still so not awake.  maybe we’ll walk over to meet him.  but i’d get a lot warmer running.  but i’m not in a running mood.  but i really really need to exercise because i can’t remember the last time i got a good cardio workout.  but it’s SO COLD…oh.  i just looked at weather.com and it’s already 56.  not so bad.

ok then, here i got, i hope you GET OUT AND VOTE today…

mrs. post-halloween hughes.

p.s. don’t forget to tell me who you think randy might be!