So I never did get around to posting the photos of Halloween. As you may or may not recall, Halloween was actually bumped this year by official decree. I'd never actually heard of any such thing before but Connie tells me the same thing had happened the year before for some parts of Jersey. The hurricane made Halloween untenable for most towns and ( Read more... )

So just because I didn't do anything interesting for Halloween doesn't mean that there weren't millions of kids out there having fun Trick or Treating. Well, as much fun as they can have never having known a real Halloween where the streets were teeming with kids and before the stranger danger paranoia hit. Let me just say that the Halloween I knew ( Read more... )

So I snagged my mom's digital camera last night and went through the memory card, pulling off around a dozen pictures. She takes a ton even during a normal day so you can only imagine how many there were over the past couple of days. If I had tried to snag, upload, and caption them all it would be an all day project, not to mention being repetitive ( Read more... )

Jeff, Connie's husband, is out of town in Canada at another bachelor party so she and the kids popped over today along with just about everyone else for lunch. Lately, it seems that every single one of their friends is taking the plunge and getting married. They've been to 4 separate bachelor/bachelorette parties or weddings in the past 2 months. I ( Read more... )