Memory Lane

I awoke this morning to a naked Matthew climbing into bed with me.

"Um, why are you naked" as I put my hand on his back, feeling the heat coming from his skin, I knew he had a fever. So, we've had a sick day, which has consisted of sitting on the couch, lying on the couch, getting up to eat some fried chicken, back to the couch, a couple of hands of "Go Fish", the second hand of which Matthew cheated... I'm just sayin'.

Anyways, my sister's fiance is in town for a couple of days and I don't think I like him anymore. He is moving my sister to freakin' ALASKA in October for a minimum of TWO years, maybe three!!! what am I going to do?? We've been here in Christiansburg together for seven years! I guess we could both never get married again and just be old cat ladies in bathrobes... speaking of which, check us out this last Halloween (I'm the one in the red moomoo):

My kids love it when we dress up, and it's really embarrassing and we only do it because we love the boys so much!! (ha, right! we actually love doing it!!)

anyway, here's Halloween 2006. We decided to be fabulous seniors from Florida and had a BLAST at the thrift store picking out these outfits... we put so much baby powder in our hair to make it "white" that I think we may have contracted lung cancer! Oh snap! you can't see my skin tight, fluorescent floral pants! they were the best part. Anyway, we weren't sure if our costumes worked until some friends of mine from church came over and saw me on the porch and said "I wonder if Kristin is here, I see her mom on the porch." BINGO! mission accomplished ;)

And here's a Halloween, I think this was 2001- I was the witch this time, and Shelley got the moomoo. She was hilarious as Grandma Grigsby! She had a bunch of pennies in her red grannie bag, and when any kids who were obviously too old to be trick-or-treating came to our house, she'd give them a couple of pennies instead of candy and tell them not to spend it all in one place!! It was awesome!!

Well, Shelley, you just try and see if you can find anyone in Alaska that will make Halloween as much fun!! Maybe I'll come up and we can wear bikinis and sunglasses just to be really funny. Gosh, I'm gonna miss you!!