today is my brother david’s birthday. we’re going out for dinner tonight…at some point yesterday i decided i’d make dinner, instead, but after spending a great chunk of the day deconstructing halloween around here, i decided to rethink that idea.
so instead we’re going out. yeah for restaurants.
ok, MORE PHOTOS…
here’s my AWARD-WINNING BROTHER! he won “strangest costume” because of the mullet combined with the cowboy costume. he looked really funny in the wig. later we all agreed that wigs really make any costume.
bev winning her well-deserved award. SO SO SO SO FUNNY!
miss illinois, winning 2nd runner up in the people’s choice awards…he pointed out that he’d already won Miss Illinois, so who cares about 2nd runner up?
shirene being SHOCKED to win her “sexiest costume” award. my favorite part of this picture, though, is jim standing there with his very manly stance and his waitress uniform.
gretchen also won sexiest costume. jim continues to stand there in the background.
amy won “most obscure,” but this is the best picture anybody could take because she grabbed the prize and scurried away as fast as possible.
david decker apparently has lots of different costumes like this. he won “most clever” costume, and seemed thrilled with his prize…
who can’t love pooh and eyeore?
mom after winning cutest costume prize.
and jim, who we had to give “best costume” to. he was very pleased.
keith and randy. keith always wears something really really hideous, but this year he didn’t because he was afraid i wouldn’t invite him anymore. but next year he can wear something scary! really! once you’ve come to a party, you’ll get invited back! I promise! keith also brought some awesome-looking cookies in the shape of bloody stumps of fingers. i didn’t even get to try one because they were gone so fast.
last year bev’s “costume” was very lame. it consisted of jeans and a halloween t-shirt and a sign that read “nudist protest” or something like that. the sign doesn’t make it a costume. so this year i decided to award a SPECIAL CHICKEN PRIZE, for the person who put the least amount of thought and consideration into their costume.
i got this chicken statue and wrote SPECIAL CHICKEN PRIZE on the base, and i typed up a very official document proclamation describing the prize.
this year the prize went to deb iams. she wore a t-shirt that said “i don’t do costumes,” which was funny because she DOES do costumes – she’s a fantastic costumer. i was even more happy that i’d awarded the prize to her because later randy told me that she ALWAYS wears this t-shirt.
Miss Illinois, looking elegant and demure.
i really like this photo because it looks like mom has passed out and dad is administering to her.
she couldn’t understand why the bed was spinning when she got home.
mollie, torn between freaking out at the crowd and the noise, and desperately wanting a treat!
jim put on amy’s mask. they’re always so funny.
my neighbor chris, who once again arrived very late, this time with his lovely angel girlfriend, who has an unpronounceable german name, except it’s shortened to something very short like “gip” or “zim” but i never can remember.
chris is a very quiet, conservative guy, so i found it particularly hilarious that he had painted his nails black, and wore these funny fangs…he couldn’t make them stick so he used SUPER GLUE!
this is jim right after winning his award.
oh, that crazy mother of mine.
i don’t know why this photo of jim and gloria is so small. they were dressed as authentic germans; she got the dress in germany and it was very lovely.
leigh and david. he must look so happy because this must have been after he won his spectacular prize. in addition to his prize card, he got a black felt kitty bag with a couple of beers in it and some crayons on the bottom.
even more photos to come…
ok then,
tuesday grace.