That awkward stage of life...

... where you're too old for raging Halloween parties but you don't have children on which to focus all your attention and creative costume impulses...

So instead, you put on your boots to trek through the pumpkin patch, watch Hocus Pocus with your husband, burn your pumpkin spcie candles (which reminds me, HOLD THE PHONE I haven't had a Pumpkin Spice Latte yet!!!) and watch the Disney cartoons that scared you as a tyke and will forever feel like Halloween.

Remarkably, we managed to get all the Forsythe kids and their significant others
together for an outing at the same time and even more remarkably I think everyone enjoyed it.

There are some things that just feel like Halloween -- remember this Disney cartoon? No matter how many times I watch it I hold my breath in fear for all the little guys.

This is my earliest recollection of being introduced to CCR :)

 

 

Ohmygosh, remember these? I hadn't realized how much good music they played... does the Disney Channel still do stuff like this? They should. YouTube you are a wizard time machine.

 

Have a safe and happy Halloween and don't summon the Burning Rain of Death! ;)

 

 

#HalloweenCostumesMyHusbandRejected

I love Halloween. But the last few years the universe has conspired to temper my festive-ness and celebrating... that or I'm just getting old and won't go out on a weeknight, can't drink more than a half glass of wine and we don't have many kids living in our condo complex so we don't get many trick-or-treaters (despite me putting up what seemed like a million signs pointing to our highly-decorated front door).

This year I think we'll be passing out candy at my grandparents' house... they live in a cool, walkable neighborhood and apparently get tons of kids... which they try to avoid by going to the movies so they don't have to answer the door all night. #PartyPoopers #JustKidding

I've suggested at least a dozen couple's costumes which have all been rejected, including:

• Pennsatucky and Pornstache (my top choice)

• Jon Snow and Tyrion (When E's hair is long he looks like Jon Snow. I'm short and have a scar on my forehead, close enough.)

• Belle and Gaston (Belle is E's favorite Disney princess and I say E has great arms. This was perhaps met with the most vitriolic reaction)
• Chris Evert and Bjorn Borg (We were actually going to do this a few years ago but someone refused to wear shorts like this, which I think ruins the effect)
• Rapunzel and Eugene Fitzherbert (I think this one might have a chance)
• Minions (I probably have the best chance with this one)

Ah well. Chances are we won't do anything anyways. Can I instead share our "greatest hits" of the last few years?

It hasn't really felt like autumn yet here... a few cloudy days (and a teensy bit of rain), but for the most part I only get "fall" by burning the pumpkin spice candles. HOWEVER I am forcing the issue with plans for this weekend -- our condo association is showing Hocus Pocus (love that movie!!!!!) on Friday night by the pool, a Dia de los Muertos event on Saturday (started out as just doing some reconnaisance work for an event we have coming up but I'm looking forward to it!), and a day trip out to a big farm/pumkin patch... it's kind of a big deal out here and every year my friends take their kids but I haven't had a chance to see it yet. Hoping for apple cider donuts and fall leaves! ALSO, and perhaps most importantly, The Walking Dead is back.... how can that not feel like Halloween?! :)  (also been getting into the Sleepy Hollow show that's new this season... wasn't expecting much but so far so good! And I manage to hold it together -- last year on Halloween we watched The Woman in Black and had to watch almost the whole movie on mute because we were seriously freaking out.).

What are your Halloween plans? More exciting than ours, I'm sure!

Happy Haunting!

 



Adolescent Anniversary

Happy Anniversary to us.

Well, do people celebrate the anniversary of when they started dating ("dating")? Or when they met? We haven't really celebrated over the last few years and even before we got married didn't usually make a big deal out of it, but... it's nice, right?

 

E and I met in high school. He played tennis and I played softball and the practice/utility field that we used when the softball field flooded every year was right next to the tennis courts. Not that I hadn't noticed him already (I mean, there were only about 400 kids in our school). I thought he liked my best friend at the time (she was tall, skinny, fashionable and a little slutty while I was horribly awkward). Amazingly, he liked me. He really liked me. :)

Could the formal outfit in the top corner and his hair be any more late-90's?

I feel so lucky and blessed to have found love and a best friend and partner at such a young age. Were we idealistic and dumb? Probably. Did we at least not pull a Cory and Topanga and wait to get engaged and married until we were (mostly) done with college? Yes.... although I sometimes wonder if it made a difference.... No matter. I have to trust that we are where God meant for us to be and although I really wish He would give us some insight into his plans and especially His timing so that I could have an easier time trusting and letting go a bit... He got us this far.



Our high school closed and sits abandoned. #creepy
Last summer we went back to where we met and fell in love :)



Feeling nostalgic and love-y,