Back when I left you....

I will go back to about the time that I left you and try to bring you up to speed in the next several posts. During that time our home computer died and unfortunately none of our photos have been moved over to our new machine. Until then, I will sprinkle a few pictures in the posts as well as try to get video taken back then edited and posted. Living without a home computer made life a little difficult for several months...but I think living between three machines (old, new and my laptop) is more difficult!

September - Steve and I got to take a mini-vacation just the two of us when we traveled out to San Diego for our good friend Kristin's wedding. Kristin is one of the elite eight, a member of the BP. It was a beautiful occasion and such a fun time. We got to sleep in, stay up late, drink lots and hang out with the best of friends. We even got to eat at Cafe 222, which we had seen features on the Food Network about 6 weeks prior to our trip. If you know me, you know that I always work a dining plan into my vacations!

Meanwhile, Joey was off having her own getaway and Gigi's house. I'm not sure what they did, but I know that she gets spoiled rotten by her and Grammie every time she goes out there to stay. I usually don't get any pictures from those trips, but this time I got lots. It was the end of summer and Gigi had left her pool up a bit past labor day, so there was a lot of swimming going on!

October - The whole family took a weekend getaway to Boston to see Nana and Grandpa McRae, Aunt Bronnie and cousins Catherine, Mathew and Casey. An interesting coincidence put us in the area at the same time that Grammie was in town to celebrate the baptism of my cousin's new daughter Tess, so we also got to see my Uncle Rob, Aunt Diana and family. It turned out to be a great trip. It also snowed while we were there, enough to cover the deck...snow before Halloween, that is why I don't live in Boston!

Halloween was so much fun this year! Josephine dressed up as a pumpkin and I must say, the cutest li'l pumpkin I've ever seen! I had tried for a few weeks to get her to try on a costume, but she was not having any of it...I had pretty much resigned myself that Halloween might not happen for us this year. But then school had a party where all the kids dressed up and they managed to get her to put on a cheer leading outfit. Well I guess all she needed was to see other kids doing it to know that I wasn't crazy! We took trick-or-treating on the road to Gigi's house as she lives in a much nicer neighborhood and there are more houses to visit. She took to her costume well and it only took her about three houses to get the hang of putting her hand out, accepting the candy and placing it in her pumpkin bucket. At one point she looked so grown up that I lost it and started crying. At which point Steve told me to stay on the sidewalk cause I was embarrassing them. The best part was when we got back to Gigi's house and she thought that nobody was looking, she took handfuls of candy out of the "giveaway" caldron and loaded her pumpkin bucket up! We would keep dumping it back into the caldron and she thought is was so much fun to take it out, what a great night! Already thinking ahead to next year's costume...Gigi is pulling for her favorite - Dorthy and Steve would like to see a little Princess Leia, but I just don't know yet.