Jiej and oh yeah Al

In an effort to give my baby sister wedding advice. I dug up a bunch of stuff.


For one, there is something to be said for printing photos.I stumbled upon pictures.
Next,
Jiej

Umami Memoirs

My Jiej, the culinary sprite, has a blog. I have bragged before.I love her entries, her enthusiasm, her true love for food, and the joy it brings.

Official photographer

I think Aunt Julie did the most photo taking Halloween night. More to follow.
By the way, I am happy to say that both of my girls participated in the voting process.

Lovely JieJie, voted in Madison Wisconsin, and Miss Mimi joined me at the polls here in HW.
Mimi thought that we were going to sit at a table with someone and they would explain to us how to vote. She thought we were going to fill out papers, kind of like a test, so we knew how to vote and who to vote for. She thought it was going to take 1 hour.

All Hallow's Eve

The Sipes family had our traditional Halloween celebration.

Jie Jie was home, so she helped me conjure up a Mexican feast for our friends and neighbors.
Mimi and Annabel went begging with Annabel's mom and me. Aunt Julie and Uncle Dan had the daunting task of passing out candy to our trick or treaters

We all must have been having a grand time because when I downloaded my pictures, I noticed a stunning lack of them.

I think we all assumed that each other was acting as official photographer.

That Ole Black Magic

Mimi loves the macabre.
We have a bit of an evening story telling.
Under candle light, we read Halloween tales. Our thought process is that Mim will like reading if it is scary and ghoulish.
The mim thought in general doesn't like the written word unless it is. not written.
I have a bunch of books from when Jiej and I were little.
"Georgie" doesn't quite cut it.
Mimi does love "Big Pumpkin" which was one of Jiej's faves.

This makes me laugh

I Cast A Spell On You

A little over a week ago, Mimi and I went to an apple orchard/ pumpkin patch/ haunted house.

The weather was unseasonably warm and I had already taken Mimi to a local antique barn to seek some treasure, so I felt that a full wristband of fall frolic was due.

Mimi had assured me that she was ready for the full haunting activities, so we started with the haunted house.

The haunted house was the most basic(considering the kid goes through the haunted mansion at Disney(at night, during Halloween).

This chicken coop, black lighted, spray painted spectacle scared her tiny pants off.

Next, we visited a petting zoo, pumped water, jumped off of hay bales, rode a train and ponies and visited this strange little band of scarecrows.

The music they were playing captivated me.I found out it was Johnny Otis, who was responsible for the hand jive.


We drank a bunch of cider, ate donuts fresh from the fryer and basked in the glow of Johnny Otis.