Halloween pictures

The Lion as David Beckham

me as Britney Spears

Blue, the pirate, in her preschool parade

the post-parade class party

Daddy and Blue making a Jack O'Lantern

these were taken by my brother-in-law, Trevor:

Blue and Aunt Mary

I love this picture of my Lion

Papa Shel, Grammy, Blue, Grandma and the Lion

Shelton, Mary, Blue, Jonathan, me, Mom, Lion, Susan and Tim (holding Bristol)

Happy Halloween

Blue has a party at her preschool today. And all the parents are supposed to stay and help man various game tables. Which should be fun except I also will be manning Lion so we'll see how helpful I am.

Blue is (not sure if I've already said) dressing as a pirate. She is super excited. Ever since we played minigolf on a pirate ship at Ocean City this summer she has been obsessed with pirates. Her favorite game is to scream "The pirates are coming! The pirates are coming! Aaaaaaah!" and then run around like a maniac.

So of course when I saw a pirate costume for toddler girls in Target, I had to get it.

The Lion is going to wear his Manchester United uniform.

I wonder if I should dress up for this party. The problem is, dressing up as something kids will appreciate (like an animal or clown or scarecrow or some shite like that) requires actual costume gear that we just don't have lying around. I mean, I have thought of a couple of lame ideas but I don't think the kids will get the joke -- or even the other parents.

Like I have this fall that matches my hair. I bought it before my wedding, in case my hairdresser needed to make my hair fuller, but then she didn't need it. Sometimes I wear it if I'm having a bad hair day and it always cracks Jonathan up because it looks so realistic. He'll come home and ta-da his wife has long hair today! Anyway, I thought I could wear that and some huge sunglasses and tacky clothes and carry some Starbucks and be ...

Anyone? Anyone?

Sigh. Britney Spears. See? Pretty lame. I think I would just look like myself except with longer hair.

Pathetic. I don't even have a witch hat to pull out of storage...

But it's not about me. I know this. But I love Halloween. I love dressing up. I just didn't realize I would have an opportunity to do so this year until I got the flier from Blue's teacher yesterday asking parents to attend the party. I'm going to go ransack my closet...

I played basketball?

Saturday Feb. 8 1986

I will never forget this day.

The Lepards beat us 11-8. Right in front of 4 kids in my class. Jon and Bobby and Amy and Angela.

YUK!

I was having a bad day maybe?

Sunday Dec. 8, 1985

I HATE MY MOM!

She threw my things in the hall just because my room was messy. She threw these things: MY camera, MY porcelin cabbage patch kid (miniature), MY flashlight, MY flute, and MY make-up (some make-up cases BROKE!) and other things!

I HATE HER!

P.S. DON'T TELL but I threw her pantyhose away because they were in MY room!

shortest crush ever

Saturday Nov. 2 1985

Description of Josh:

He is tall, with thick black curls, big brown eyes, freckles. He is the tallest kid in the class he is younger than me, he turned 10 in October. He also has a great sense of humor. When I go near him it sends tingles down my spine. Could it REALLY be love?

Friday Nov. 8 1985

Josh likes someone else. I no longer like him. I feel like he ripped my insides out! I feel empty.

sure

Monday August 26 1985

I hate Christina! I never want to speak to her again! Every time I tell Laura that she says "sure!"

The hilarious thing about this entry is that I am still friends with Christina!

because there was nothing to see...

Friday 2-22-1985

Dear Diary,
Today in P.E. Jon looked so cute with his hair all windblown and all. But when I talked to him he looked at my CHEST! I was SO EMBARESSED!!!!!