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Elia’s Birthday Party at BusyBees 2017
Isabella’s 7th Birthday at iFly and Top Golf
Thanksgiving 2017
Elia November 2017
Halloween for Elia began with wanting to be a chef Belle for her costume long before Halloween, she has either long term memories or great memories of pictures of us in catering clothing with her as a chef, that she associates Halloween with being a chef. However, when she saw Curie’s Wonder Woman costume, and Erin’s fascination for Wonder Woman after the movie, she also wanted to be Wonder Woman; and because the costume we got Curie was too small, we had two Wonder Women. Elia wore her costume for the school parade and had a great time playing with her sword and shield, and posing in her costume at home. On Halloween though, she wanted to be Belle, and so she was Belle for Halloween. Continue reading “Elia November 2017”
Curie October 2017
Before coming to the DMV area, Halloween was never a very big holiday for us, however since the Hoaglands have a party each year to celebrate Bella’s and Quin’s birthdays, we have gone to their Halloween haunted house party since 2007. Curie’s first year was as a Red Hot Chili Pepper, but the following year we started our meta-costumes (well documented) which resulted in us being judges for the costume contest this year. We were worried that the kids would decide last minute that they didn’t want to wear their costumes, but they embraced being judges wholly with Curie leading the charge. Continue reading “Curie October 2017”
When you are a dad, you draw what you are asked…
Cadence, Luna, Celestia, and Twilight Sparkle.
Happy 10th Anniversary!
In a blink of an eye, we have been married for 10 years, in that time we have moved in together into an apartment, had a beautiful child, bought a house, had another beautiful child, sold a house, rented a house, and held 5 jobs between us. We have learned the importance of humor and letting go, the value of reliance, the need for companionship, and the strength of love. Relationships are always harder than you think, more work than you think, and more rewarding than you think. It is the amount of emotional investment and soul that you put into it that makes you appreciate its its worth. Polish and polish and polish and even the roughest surfaces gleam with beauty. The best part of it all is that we didn’t have a lot to polish to begin with. Happy Anniversary!
First Halloweens
So Elia’s first Halloween she was almost one and she was one of the chef’s (Curie was the other) for our catering costume at the Hoagland’s Albert’s work also meant that he had to miss trick-or-treating – not family-friendly, but a necessity at the time; so it was also her trick-or-treating costume. Most people know Curie’s first costume (she was one month old) as one of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and underneath she had on the skeleton costume. But what people don’t know is that Albert wanted to dress Curie up as a maggot. His rationale was that everyone would have little lady bugs, and cute animals for their babies, but Curie would be the only maggot. Here is photographic evidence that Albert did indeed dress Curie up as a maggot before Halloween.
Halloween 2017
In addition to the Hoagland party, the kids have their trick-or-treat costumes. The kids both wanted to be Wonder Woman for Halloween. These are separate identical except for size sets for them. Continue reading “Halloween 2017”