zombie

sorry these are gross.

I got way way into grossing up my sister's hair and makeup after I picked her up from school Friday and said she looked like a pretty zombie.

then we discovered that my basement is the perfect zombie backdrop.

happy halloween!

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under arrest

my newly sprung hobby involves borrowing people's kids because I think of a good idea to go with their Halloween costumes. I gave them back with I was done.

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I put the rest up on my photo site

photoshop trick and a treat

we have been having way too much fun photographing everyone's costumes
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I'll share after we're done with Halloween weekend!

it's like a time machine i'm going so far back now

my cousin and her family last JULY. I love them. but I love anything that's turquoise and yellow and green. I think she knew that.

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to moms of all girls or all boys

don't skip the totally pink row or the totally blue & red row at the toy store. how else is belle going to get to the ball when her butterfly-unicorn-strawberry-shortcake-mobile breaks down?

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another living room corner

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i truly have a disease called moving-household-stuff-around-constantly-itis. for reals. ask anyone that's been here more than once.

i love when old friends come to visit

last night (while I was asleep and dreaming) Kevin Deiber and I were in a double-wide chicken suit at a high school church dance. most of the other attendants were Latino gang members in skinny jeans. they mostly stood around looking cool until some sharks and jets music came on and then they began dance fighting. things started to get scary when we went out into the parking lot and a bearded David Cross in a reeeally tall Abraham Lincoln hat started chasing us. I think he was either going to get us to join the community jazz band or stay late and clean up after the dance. oh the terror.

also for the record when my husband appears in...husbandly dreams somehow his voice always sounds very much like Don Draper

dino park

dinosaur park in Ogden (not to be confused with the Evanston playground with a dinosaur slide) was one of our summer fun days (yes still catching up)

max excavating
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my sister hanna assisting
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lily and aaron, I think one day they might get married. they already act like they have been for 50 years. their grumpy moods and need to be in charge intertwine so that they are either wrestling on the floor to vent frustration that the other person won't follow the 49 rules to the made-up game or being each other's knight and princess taking turns doing the rescuing. plus wouldn't this be just so cute at their reception?
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to lily and aaron in the magical golden cave of the allosaur, "look scared!"
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"no aaron, not scaRY....scared!"
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I must love rainbows as much as lily since most of our friends sat down to rest and I rearranged a couple to make this
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but then we tried to add some of the littlse and they weren't as cool on the idea. max wouldn't even get off the sidewalk. stinkin max
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the andersons from gunnison

ah, this weekend was one of our favorites of the summer. in pa school my husband had these 2 great buddies. who not only studied and became great medical people but also enjoyed such traditions as "let's grow ugly moustaches week". so on this weekend we gathered them all to our house (on janie's birthday I might add). here's the oldest 4 of the 8 kids (one of them might be dressed up as a bride):

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but then I got to take off with the family of girls for some real live family photos. and their pictures are ones that I wish I could somehow switch out the heads of my own family and have them be my family pictures too. like I love the images and the happiness and the colors and the pink so much but it would probably be weird to order myself a 24 inch canvas for my wall, you know?

please don't make fun of the father's huge head ha ha

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i'm not a bum anymore

but this is

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anyway, you can 100% expect a daily post from me for at least the next week! booya.

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babe of a senior girl wearing lots of grey posing by lots of grey.
whatever those huge cement kit kat bar things are were my favorite.

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uuuhhhhhhhhh

oops

I'm back

my kids are still cute (phew)


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no, nothing bad happened
no, we didn't really go anywhere
no, I'm not pregnant