Halloween Treats

I know it's way past Halloween. But I've been busy. :) These are the twins' Halloween costumes. They were Thing 1 and Thing 2 from the Cat in the Hat. My good friend Patti knitted the hats for their hair which made the costumes PERFECT. Once I found the red onesies it was pretty easy to put together the costume, and I was so excited to be making costumes again. Back a long time ago, I used to make my neice & nephew's Halloween costumes for them every year. Back then, with our limited resources, it was a challenge, I'll tell you! But fun. Reason #1 for me to get better at sewing.

They were soooo cute. In the final version of this costume, the "Thing" labels were sewn on... this was a test photo with the labels I made just pinned on. I have a version of the photo that I took out the pins with some careful photoshop editing; apparently I forgot to upload that corrected version. Silly of me to do all the work and then not use it but oh well. That's the way it rolls around here nowadays. Their eyes also look very dark in this photo. In reality, Sean's eyes are still very blue and Maia's are hazel. I think they are dark because of the anti red-eye stuff on the camera. Or maybe I edited them with one of those red eye things... can't remember.

We had a small dinner party; nothing like our last few years' huge events. But it was very nice, and in some ways more fun than the big parties. At least at this one I was able to hang out with everyone who was there-- not the case with the big parties.

This last weekend we went to Shreveport and we got stuck in an "off base" hotel. It was literally the worst hotel I can remember staying at in forever. There were literally several pubic hairs in the bottom of the tub when we got there. I couldn't stop thinking of those stories about hotel rooms seen under that light that shows all the body fluids that are left in them... this one, I'm fairly sure you could see some of them without the special light. Ugh! Luckily for my sanity, I had a can of Lysol which I sprayed on everything. We don't have a choice with where we stay, and for some reason (perhaps leftovers from Katrina?) we have been getting crappy room assignments the last few times we've gone up there. It was pretty awful & I was sooooo glad to get home last night. But the plus is that Andrew drove the majority of the trip, and the babies slept, and I snuggled down in the last row of the minivan and had the longest naps I have had since the babies were born. Very nice. It was like being a kid again, myself. I haven't gotten to sleep in the backseat of a car in a long time.

Is it REALLY almost Thanksgiving? Sheesh. What a year! I hope all of you who pop in have a great one.

p.s. and of course you know which one is which, right? Who is Thing 1 and who is Thing 2? Guesses? And why did I pick that order? No one who was there that night can give it away. :)