Halloween 2010

I must admit that I love Halloween. And it's not all the scary, gory, creepy stuff either. Rather it is the one day of the year that we can be anything we want to be. Well okay, it's the one day we can dress as anything we want to be and get away with it. In my mind Halloween is what you make it to be. And for me I make it fun and enjoyable like the imagination meant it to be.

For as long as I can remember I have always dressed up for Halloween. Whether it was a purple crayon, an angel, a roman princess, a T-Bird, or this year a Lady Pirate. And with every costume there was trick-or-treating to go with it, even a little bit this year. (I know I'm sneaky, but hey it's candy.) I spent the evening going door to door collecting the "loot". Of course I was not the only one collecting candy. My adopted niece Lyla (who is almost two) was the real Bumblebee behind the operation. All in all it was a good night spent with great people. =)


Miss Bumblebee Lyla


Lady Pirate Cristal

Blessed, Even In Dismay.

So today started like any other Wednesday does. I got up around 11:30, left for the most boring class of my life around 12:30, and got home at about 15:30 (3:30 for those none military peeps). Grams and I got home and thought that Gramps had gone somewhere, although we weren't sure. I was checking my email when I noticed my Mom had emailed me. I opened it to find that she was having truck trouble at 12:30. Grams and I figured Gramps was out helping her, well about thirty minutes later we found that Mom had Gramps' truck and that Gramps had been home when we got back from my class. He told us that he had rescued Mom from her truck troubles and lent her his truck until Thursday night. So it was all good in the neighborhood. Then Mom shows up at the house around 16:30 (4:30). She made few phone calls to get parts needed for her truck and any other help/tools she needed. Finally around 18:30 (6:30) Gramps decides to take us to Sugarcreek for dinner. By then Mom was ready to go get her parts and run some other errands she needed to do. Well, he comes the fun part of our day. Mom calls us at about 19:30 (7:30) to tell us that Gramps truck wasn't starting. (Oh joy here we go again.) So after dinner the three of us go and rescue Mom and Harley at the parts shop. After about thirty minutes of trying to get Grandpa's truck working we finally conclude that his starter motor probably went out. Yay, now we have five people, two of which are stuck in Lorain County for a bit, two trucks that don't work and a load of food to get from Sharon's. The stress leave, by this time, was rising and fast. After a lot of yell and almost talking we decide to get the food from Sharon's. Once the food was loaded, everything else seemed to fall into place. We dropped most of the food at Shannon's and then took Mom and Harley home on our way back to our house. It was a long journey full of stress and dismay, but amidst it all we were very lucky. If it were Tuesday, Mom would have been stuck on 611 for about two or more hours. Grandpa would have been going to class at around 15:30 (3:30) and wouldn't be back until about 22:30 (10:30). So she would have been stranded and out of transportation for about a day or so. And Grandpa's truck could have not started somewhere else, like a busy highway, but luckily it didn't. And thanks to a sweetheart of Sharon, Mom would have had to go all the way to Brunswick to get her food. That would have meant more time and gas money in the long run. So counting our blessing we were very fortunate in our misfortune.

Tagged: For the Fun of It

1. Open the first photo folder on your computer
2. Scroll down to the 10th photo
3. Post this photo and tell the story about it
4. Pass this along to 5 other bloggers

I saw this on Susan's blog and wanted to do it just for the fun of it!

I bought this hat at a little resale shop in Oberlin called Touched By Grace. They had so many different vintage hats there. As soon as I walked in the door I found about three. I started to looked around and I found about twenty-five or so vintage hats. Of course me being who I am had to try on every one I found! I had so much fun with it. Of course I fell in love with almost every hat there. Some looked better than others, while some were just not good at all. Finally I decided to I wanted to take one home with me. And with the help of Grams and Gramps I narrowed it down to two this one and a straw navy blue and white stripped, with a dark blue eye veil. And as you can see this one really caught my eye and was a must buy! I can't wait to go back and maybe even find another hat to bring home. :-)

Five People to Pass This Along To:
1. Grams
2. Heather Cosby
3. Deborah Gay
4. Kate Herzoff
5. Jocelyn Christensen