Revisiting Halloween

Here is the Halloween that you haven't seen yet!

Our work put out a call to dress up, and though not too

many of our employees did, a few of us heard the call loud and clear! I was having a hard time figuring out what I was going to wear, so Thursday my coworker sent me home with two bags of costumes that her daughter (about my size and age) had kindly leant out to me. I found a great greek costume for both aaron and I to wear, but for a "work" atmostphere, I felt it was a little too revealing, so I was back to square one.

I dove in to our spare closet to see what I could find from my past halloweens and one by one I tried on every costume and stretch of a costume I could come up with from Army Chick to Indian Girl to Go Go dancer, and one by one I elimated the outfits as ei

ther too risque or too tight that I could not fit my self into it (gogo dancer, can-can girl, fairy- each more and more depressing as I realized just how much weight I have gained and how sickening'ly skinny I once was- dang I wish I had that body again!). So what did I end up with? Well the only thing that Really fit me....my Grandmother's Authentic 1984 L.A. Olympics Staff Jog Suit, by Levi's! If you couldn't already pick me out of a crowd, you sure wouldn't miss me now in this BRIGHT ORANGE & YELLOW Outfit. Hey, I made it work, and everyone loved it....not to mention it was totally comfortable, so there!

Ohhhhhhhhhhh...... You want to see Aaron and I in our Toga's? Well....... fine! Here you go!

(*Top Picture From Left to Right:

Diana- 80's Girl, Me- LA Olympic Staff, TC- Gypsy, Sarah- Sailor, Cxeng W/Charmie Dog- Clown, Robyn-Flapper Girl, Becky-Alice in Wonderland, Elena- The Travelocity Roaming Nomb!)

Happy Birthday Sean-Tay!

Two weekends ago we celebrated Sean T's 28th Birthday (man we are getting old!!!) He only had two requests. One was that we go to this brewing store and look into some brewing stuff so that he could brew his own beer like Aaron. We all walked out of there with one Honda Civic Trunk load of stuff! Aaron got a Pony Keg (google it if you don't know what it is), and Sean got a whole brewing kit and a Blonde Ale recipe. He and Aaron are going to set a date to brew another batch of beer (Aaron has completed one full batch and is waiting on a CO2 system to keg his second batch). I think Nate is now going to get in on this ....looks like we have our selves a regular Cheers! in the works!!!!
After we left the Brew Store, we met up with Erin & Nate, Andrew & Cassandra and Adam & Nicole at Speiskammer, and authentic german restaurant in Alameda. The food was DELISH! The staff was totally nice and accommodating and there was even a live band there! We had such a good time, eating good German food and drinking Great German Beer! This is definitely a place we will have to go back to, and next time take Davina (our German friend/family member)!


Nate & Erin...............................Adam & Nicole

Me & Aaron................................Erin & Sean

Erin & Sean.............................Andrew & Cassandra

A Dinner with the Kipp's

So Now we are going to head back a week and touch on the great night we had the Kipp.'s! Mike and Jos had us over for a great dinner (as always) and Aaron held the Baby practically the whole time....sounds like someone has the baby itch....good thing it is not me ! hahahaha!

Here are some great pictures of the night a great video of Justice showing off his Darth Vader (sorry I couldn't get it to flip) costume for us! Hilarious!

A Video to Laugh at...

So, I will admit that some in this video were slightly intoxicated (not me), but for the most part we were all sober (not Nate or Mikey) and just feelin' the music! Enjoy this great 3 minute or so video....

2 weeks of posts coming!

Well...at the very least I suck at this blogging thing. When I first started this over a year ago, I was really good at posting everyday, now you are lucky if you get something every couple of weeks. But you have to admit that when I get some content I stretch it out right!? So we have had two VERY full, consecutive weekends, and this week you will hear all about them, starting with Halloween. SWEET!

Every year, I host a halloween party at Mikey's house. Really it's his party, but I run it cuz he is not too good at planning....and needless to say, that is one of my strengths. So this saturday marked the Third Annual Halloween Party, and it wouldn't have been complete without a Costume Contest and a NEW trophy! Though Aaron and I dressed up in cute Roman Outfits, we weren't the winners... (no real big surprise when you see what we were up against!). The winner's were our four friends Mikey (Host), Eliot, Gene & Eric. The fantastic four dressed as the crew from the movie The Hangover. There costume was hilarious and right on! Mikey even drove around with the baby (a CPR baby from Eliot's work) all day and had a couple of Cops give him some double takes.

The runner up was Nate, dressed as a cop from Reno 911 a hilarious show on Comedy Central. He and Erin made his costume, we all thought he bought it from a party store, but it was not so.

All in all the costumes were a hit with the Taylors being Mormons, Erin S. a vampire, Jill as Tinkerbell, and much much more! I can't wait until next year to see the great costumes that everyone comes up with!

P.S. Stay Tuned for a GREAT video tomorrow, from the party!