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My Little Cuties!

I bought Halloween costumes for the boys because they went with me and my friend Annie on a tour of Glenwood Cemetery. This is a quite famous graveyard here in Houston. Howard Hughes is buried there and so is a 1940s movie star, Gene Tierney. Many of the early oil barons are also interred there. They have just opened a new section called "River Oaks Row" because Carolyn Farb and Bob Lanier have both bought plots and have already begun constructing elaborate sculptures to put on their burial spots. (For those who don't know much about the Houston social scene, I've included links to Farb's and Lanier's wikipedia pages. Just click on their names.)

Porch Boy the Pumpkin and Trip the Trash Talker were ooohhhed and aahhhed over appropriately by the tour group. You can see that Tater (in the background of this shot) remained uncostumed this year.

Here's a close up of Trip's outfit. With the collar up...

and with the collar down...

and an EXTREME close up!

Porch Boy wore his pumpkin outfit quite proudly...

from every angle...

But he REALLY did NOT want a closeup!

Happy Halloween!

We decorated the office and coordinated our costumes for the theme "Monstrous Mardi Gras" this year. I was the Devil King and here is my favorite decoration - the giant spider!


Here I am with the Ghost of Mardi Gras Past and the Witch Doctor Scream!



And here with Elvira Devil and Hannibal Lecter Jester.



We all had a great time and Dr. Scream won best costume in the whole Department!



Of course, I probably could have won if I'd just had the mask off when the judges came by :--)

Walk for Autism Speaks

Gina and I got to Reliant at 9AM and found the tent where we were to sign in.


Gina turned in the last of her off-line donations.

And because of the generosity of all our friends and family that donated to the cause, we both got t-shirts! I raised $175 and Gina got $174 (YEA! I beat her!)

Next we walked around to the vendor booths - I had no idea that there were so many agencies and others serving the needs of people with autism here in Houston! Here's Gina in front of the Avondale House booth.

It was an interesting looking crowd, but I couldn't believe my eyes. Was that who I thought it was????

OMG! It was! Obi Wan Kenobi!

Then I saw he was with some Stormtroopers who were more than willing to have their image captured on our primitive recording devices :-)

When I approached them for a photo shoot, they decided to arrest me!

Gina, Laura, and her sister Courtney were apparently unfazed by the rough treatment I was enduring from the Empire. (The balloons were the brainstorm of the Avondale House principal, Becky Ingalls - a good way to advertise their facility.)

Finally the walk was underway.


There were many groups walking to support a certain person with autism. Like this group who were all walking for Luis.

But others, like us, who were walking for all. Here's Becky, Lara, and Gina explaining.


THANKS AGAIN TO ALL WHO WALKED, VOLUNTEERED, AND DONATED $$ TO THIS EVENT!!!

Toy Story Bathroom - The Sequel

Gina really didn't like her Georgia O'Keefe print hanging in my bathroom with all those Pixar characters, so I finally found something on eBay more appropriate for the space over the toilet.

Now Ms. O'Keefe resides in the dining room.

I was lucky enough to find this cool Kleenex box at Kroger too!


Makes for a cute final addition to my bathroom decor, don't you think?

Generations of Roots

From the youngest generation...



to the oldest...



and finally one of the adopted generation.

4th of July 2010 Pool Videos

It took some time to get the kids interested in getting in the pool, so I found other things to record...

Soon the kids were both enjoying the water, and yes, I do feel responsible for what happened next...

the fight over the water source!


I was just enticing the kids to fight, so...


I tried to refocus on adult matters.