Halloween & Other

Halloween - this year Shara was inspired by Teen Beach Movie and decided she wanted to be the biker girl and the one in the movie had a beehive ala Amy Winehouse. Disney had several "commercials" on tv showing just how simple this hairstyle is to do yourself! Ha! So needless to say, last Sunday began our foray into beehives and Aqua Net. At church the youth group wanted to do a costume contest and Shara won for most detailed costume. That day she did most of her hair herself. All I did was put some of it into a bun and she did the rest. Later that day, after almost finishing the pumpkin carving, we tried to rush to the town parade and didn't get there because our ambition was too great and the hair didn't work and it was very upsetting. I think we learned a good lesson from that trial.

Last night (10/30) I posted that I "have to wake Shara up at 5:55 am and do her beehive. I'm hoping we won't both end up in tears. I'm going for the cheater's way and using a rolled up pair of pantyhose - they say a bath loofa - poofy sponge thing, but I think the hose should work ok. Pulling out the aquanet! It went mostly well and was a team effort. Original outfit ripped off and after rummaging through the laundry found a good shirt. Got to the bus stop early and with breakfast so I'd say yes, well.

So her hair was in need of a redo after the day at school. I took just the pantyhose and that seemed to work well for an extra poof to her hair. Then I had to get ready because we had the family theme going. I put on my Broadway Lunch shirt, slicked back my hair, put on a little 5 o'clock shadow and became a 50's male. Quick supper (thank you Alan for the great grilled cheese) and we were off trick-or-treating.

Two cool chicks

Shara carved this all by herself while I made the meringues!

ready for trick or treating

They looked so cute before baking.

Not so cute now, but tasted excellent!

Some comments from facebook: 10/31 - listening to shara sort her candy is hysterial. "This is the best day of my life". "I have to have dots. That's my new goal." And apparently we shouldn't have the blue raspberry jolly ranchers.
Denise Hamer Charland, Olivia Melo, Tobi Applebaum and 8 others like this.
Lauren Katherine Does she need dots? We have one box nobody will eat! Lol
Laurie Lessner no thank you. we have plenty. It's now turned from funny to the point where I'm really having to hold my tongue because it seems like she's eaten so much. Maybe I need to be more like Alan Yabroudy and keep refilling the wine glass.
Lauren Katherine Mmmmmmmmm. Wine.
Laurie Lessner the candy follies have come to a close - the end of gluttony in our house - until after Shara goes to bed and then I'll have just a little more...
Jill Lessner Looker Sounds like a fun night!
Laurie Lessner it was - each year is a big difference and great memory


















10/26 - Finally some good pet news - Brutus had his stitches taken out this morning and was given the go-ahead to resume his normal activities. Alan tried to get him to go down the spiral stairs, but he didn't want to, so he got carried down to sit on the couch with Shara. He was made to get himself upstairs and chose the spiral. He did fine, but at his age, normal activity is sleeping most of the time!
Jill Lessner Looker Great news!!
Laurie Lessner thanks all!
Scott Gillespie YAY, BRUTUS!
Tobi Applebaum So happy to hear the good news. Brutus is a trooper.

Church Year Beginnings

Shara displays Bobbe's version of Rosie's brownies, with mango sorbet. One of the many delicious treats at our Circle Dinner last Friday night. We all had a wonderful time hanging out and talking with church friends. Shara read a very creative story she wrote, danced and entertained our guests. It's nice having built in entertainment.

Sunday I signed up to host coffee hour at church. Alan and Shara ushered. We brought Betty's German Sour Cream Twists - I forgot to mention to her the dough was left over from the lesson she gave Shara & myself. I also made a couple of yeast breads - the banana cinnamon swirl is below. I had to leave coffee hour for a bit for a meeting. Shara sat on the floor in the office and made rubber band bracelets until Alan was ready to go. It was rather relaxing and peaceful having her there.  

 These are pictures for the class I taught for Korin a couple of weeks ago. There was only Shara and Jenny, but we had a really nice time. We read the story "The Mishmash Heart" and spoke about the phenomenon of how loves grows the more you give it away. We decorated hearts and the Sonia, another teacher, asked if I could take a picture of a beautiful piece of artwork one of her students made.

Target Photoshoot

Out much too late on a Friday night!

Daddy's 50th Surprise Party

We have almost no photos but very good memories. This was all Shara's idea - having a surprise party. I wasn't sure we could pull it off but we did and Alan had no clue. We arranged for Oma, Jidor & Auntie Chris to come over for cake after church. Then Shara would take daddy out for lunch. We figured somewhere sit-down so we'd have a descent amount of time to get set up, but without the help of John & Maggie (and also Hannah!), and then Pat and anyone else I could bark orders to, we'd never have been in place when they came home. And they didn't call like they were supposed to, so it was a real surprise for us when Shara comes in, runs downstairs and calls, "we're home! we're here!". And just a minute before they start coming down, the phone rings and it's a friend of Shara's and I couldn't hang up on a little girl! so I missed Alan's expression but he was very surprised.

This is the best photo we have!

It was nice having friends and family come together when they wouldn't normally have a chance to meet each other. Next time I'd like to have more people - I don't like having limits! I want everyone to join in the fun - and if we had planned better, could have asked the NY family to come too. Oh well, ideas for improvement are always good.