one of the funniest ones is bev dancing. she’s singing, i believe, and her mouth is wide open and i showed it to her and she said DON’T PUT THAT UP! so i’m sorry, but i can’t. hopefully there’s another photo of her somewhere.
oh, and also, those were only a FRACTION of the cupcakes i decorated. i didn’t want you to get the idea that i spent three hours on only a dozen cupcakes.
LOTS of cupcakes.
Anyway, here is mom and dad. i didn’t take this picture; luckily bill brought his camera and took some photos, or i’d have had no photos at all of my own parents. they snuck out early because mom’s cold was getting worse and worse. you can’t tell from this photo.
if they’d stayed, we’d have awarded dad “most original” costume. he was a sports…devil? he was wearing a cardinals hat and shirt, i think, with a vial around his neck that was supposed to be drugs, and something else…and black fingernail polish…and scary makeup. highly creative, that’s my dad.
mom was a good witch. there were a few witches, which i guess you can expect at a halloween party. i like witch costumes because they’re so basically halloweeny. how come nobody’s ever a pumpkin? mollie has a pumpkin hat but she’s not very happy to wear it.
this is bill and karen. bat. and robin. very clever idea. this was bill’s FIRST costume-wearing experience, and he walked off with 1st runner-up in the people’s choice costume contest. karen got 2nd runner up. they were tired and wanted to leave early, but i forced them to stay because i knew they were going to get a prize.
here’s jim and amy and randy. jim was charlie brown; when he arrived, he wore a charlie brown costume – a sheet with holes cut all over it. but he quickly abandoned the sheet and i think it’s in the garage now. amy was a spectacular disco queen. and randy, mr. bananas foster.
here’s david, who was also a disco person. my BROTHER david, mind you…when he arrived, my dad said to me, “who’s the guy with the black hair?” IT’S YOUR SON.
here’s troy, who won sexiest costume (he tied with bev, and i wish i had a good photo of her), plus he got 3rd runner-up in the people’s choice.
troy was young paris hilton. older paris was also there. this is paul with his wife myuki, and their ACTUAL LITTLE BITTY DOG. paul called during the party to ask if it was ok if he brought his dog, and a lot was going on and the conversation was a little confusing, but it turned out fine and everybody loved the little bitty dog. especially mollie.
mollie had the time of her life at the party, as you might imagine. she followed people around and stared pitifully at them and was given many many pieces of most food. at one point apparently she managed to snag a cupcake with CHOCOLATE FROSTING and people kept reporting this to me, but mollie didn’t have any ill-effects. but then jonelle gave her one little bit of peda bread and suddenly mollie was hacking and choking and i thought we wee going to have to do the heimlich maneuver on her. we took off her purple cape, and kevin petted her…and then she settled down and went back to begging for food. a very, very exciting night for her.
here’s bill and linda. linda’s costume was VERY sexy, but you can’t tell from this photo. she wore a little bitty short black dress, definitely the sexiest witch at the party. hmm, maybe next year we should have a sexy witch award.
this is gena and tim, a very cute couple, who got one of the two “cutest couple” awards. gena is in fencing, and her husband tim is one of the sweetest men i’ve met. aside from my husband, of course.
and here’s erica, looking lovely as usual. i don’t recall ever actually talking to erica during the party, which is a shame. i hope she had fun. at one point she was crowded into the little hallway with some people, and i hope that was entertaining.
here are the germanns, always looking good. i can’t remember the funny name that gary called himself. i can’t remember talking to them either. did i talk to anybody at all during the party? did i speak? did i try the punch?
ok, JUST ONE MORE photo of randy. he managed to be in many funny photos. did i take all the photos? i mean the ones with kevin’s camera, as opposed to the photos that bill took.
randy and linda. i think bill must have taken this.
damn, these photos are good, i guess i’ll just put up one more of randy. IT’S ALL ABOUT RANDY.
i really like this photo. that’s dave on the left. he got the award for most obscure costume. he kept saying “why did i get this?” and then he said he’d NEVER EVER WON ANYTHING BEFORE. and yet he left his award here. but he also couldn’t find his keys, and they were on the roof of this car.
there are still a few more photos i want to show you but i MUST STOP THIS RIGHT NOW.
all the halloween lights are lit up here in the house, and i could have a party right this minute if anybody stopped by. i’m wearing my fuzzy red pajamas, but i could always say that’s my costume. i think that would be a GREAT costume, as a matter of fact.
last year i thought kevin and i should have been an old married couple – dressed in pajamas and robes, and i could have put curlers in my hair. it would have been funny because at that point we’d only been married a little over a month.
and now, we ARE an old married couple!
enough already. more soon.
goodnight,
monday grace.