Halloween was great fun this year, Max was so excited it was contagious. Sadly, Lucy had a fever, but even still, she wore her costume for a whole hour around the house. Max got to trick-or-treat on Linden in the stores with his buddy Mac, and then we did some more up at the ‘decorated Emerson’ dorm up at Westmont.
Though our actual annivesary is not until 11/1 – Matt took me on a super overnight up to Santa Ynez on Thurs/Friday. With the kids safely at home with Yaya and Poppa, we enjoyed the break! We went to the Chumash Casino to see the Drew Carey Improv show, which was very, very funny. After lazing around in our really nice hotel room (there at the resort), we strolled around Solvang, enjoyed a nice lunch at a cafe and a 15 minute neck massage at the ‘De-Stress Cafe’. It was lovely. 🙂 God has richly blessed us.
Here’s some pics of Miss Lucy – quickly becoming the Queen of Expressions.
Sunday I was the emcee for Hips of Fury, a belly dancing competition in Palmdale. This event was the brain child of my best friend since 9th grade, Jill (Mears) Warden (pictured below). It was the first year for this – and such a great time. I ran around for about 6 hours, acting as stage manager and then introducing each act, and announcing the winners. Aaah – how lovely to use my theatre training again, for more than just being a ham for my kiddies. 🙂
From Thursday, the weather for our Seal family gathering was not looking good. The forecasts predicted a 10 degree drop in the temperature with showers and thunderstorms. Toby was concerned so she lined up a plan B location if we were going to have rain on Sunday. She would decide Saturday morning where the gathering would be. Saturday’s weather was perfect for the beach : mid-70s, no wind, clear skies. The beach gathering was on!
Sunday morning before church I went and laid out some table cloths on the picnic tables to reserve our spot: Sunny and clear. After church, cold and rainy. The party was scheduled for 1:30p. At 12:45p the rain was pouring, I mean hard. We did a flash cleaning of the house, anticipating that everyone would come to our house for the lunch. Toby sent me to wait outside the beach entrance to direct everyone over to our house. When I got there at 1:15p, the sun had come out and it was warming up.
By 2p, it was back to nearly perfect beach weather. Thank you God.