Halloween

We had a great Halloween filled with candy, friends and fun! I didn't take too many pictures but do have a few to share. Alex made her cape for her costume which came out SO good! It was a no sew DIY and she did an awesome job. Marianne's Tinker Bell costume was one I made back in the day for Alex. As you can see it was still a little big on her but she didn't notice.

I tried to find a photo of Alex wearing the costume but finally had to give up. I did find one from that year though when Max was Captain Hook. I was very proud of that costume! I also found a baby Max photo from his first Halloween.


Ruben and I came up with our costumes last minute. I decided to be a nerd and he decided to be my nerd sister. Once he put his wig on he resembled Fred Armisen from Portlandia so we kinda went with it :)

Earlier in the day Alex's school had their annual All Saints Day Celebration. That morning I decided Marianne HAD to dress up so I whipped up this St. Therese costume. I used a bunch of different things from our Halloween box to make it and it turned out so much better than I could have hoped it would!

Unfortunately I didn't get a photo of Max because he went to a friend's house right after school. I spent a lot of time on his costume and he was super stoked on it. He went to a comic book convention on Saturday which was the main reason he wanted to dress up. He was Delsin from Infamous (a video game).

There you have it! I hope your Halloween was just as fun!

♥ anne

old photos

The other day me, my Mom and Nana were discussing who the kids looked like. I was telling them that I don't really see myself when I look at them. Then I got out these photos to prove my point. The baby pic on the bottom right resembles Maggie but that's about it, in my opinion. I wish I had childhood pictures of Ruben so you could see how much they all look like him, but I don't.

I love the one of me ironing. Little did I know that chore would take up hundreds of hours of my life when I got older! I wish I was that happy ironing now. Unfortunately it is a part of my life because I refuse to pay for dry cleaning. Plus, I'm quite good at it so I see no reason to pay someone else to do it. You see, me and the iron go WAY back. I remember my Dad teaching me and my sister to iron his pants and shirts when I was in 2nd grade (maybe younger). I don't know if my sister pretended to be really bad at it but in no time it was officially my job. Thanks Jen! I also ironed my school uniforms when I was at my Mom's. My friend Rita's skirt was always nicely ironed (by her mom) and her pleats were perfectly flat. I can't even tell you how many hours I spent trying to get my skirt to look as good as her's! I never did. Maybe we had a crappy iron? I don't know, but it drove me crazy!

I didn't anticipate this post being about ironing but hey, that's where it went! How many times can say iron? A lot. Here's one more just for fun- IRON! hahaha I suppose I could have used pressed instead. Oh well.

So, my question to you is- Do you think your children resemble you? Or if you don't have kids, do you resemble your parents? AND Does anyone else out there iron? Or am I a loner on that one?

♥ anne

ps- I posted a fun popsicle recipe over at The Ma Books so go take a peek here!

musical memories // pearl jam 1993

this is a sad memory for me. you may already be able to guess where this is going by the ticket stub or rather, ticket with stub still attached. the year was 1993 and i was a freshman in high school. pearl jam was THE band. i was in love with eddie vedder, had pictures of him all over my wall. so this concert was going to be the highlight of my year. turns out that it was my dad's weekend for us to come over and he told me i could not go. no amount of crying, pleading or begging would change his mind. being the obedient daughter that was/am i did not go. and guess what, almost 20 years later i am still very sad i missed this one. 

two of my favorites shared the stage for the MTV music awards that year. i remember watching this and just loving seeing them together! ok, i'm really getting depressed now writing about this :( and what's more depressing is that i never have seen pearl jam live. but on a more cheerful note, i AM seeing neil young in october at the hollywood bowl. now that's something to be happy about! plus, i still could see pearl jam or eddie vedder solo. it's not like it's too late. yes, i'm feeling a little better now :D

above is pretty much what i looked like at the time, although this picture is from the beginning of sophomore year 1994. rita (on my left) got to go to the concert. yep, i'm still jealous rita! that's vanessa on my right. i wasn't friends with her yet in 93 but she opened up a whole new world of music to me when we started hanging out. come to think of it, these two ladies are my two oldest friends! and this may very well be the only picture i have of us all together. i'm proud to say that they are both still in my life. yay for friends!

i have actually kept almost all my ticket stubs and wrote down on the backs all the bands that were at each show. there was a period in my 20's where i stopped but i am back to collecting them again! aren't you just SO curious to peek inside the pages of my little book and see all the concerts i've been to?! well, you'll have to wait! i think my little book deserves a post of her own :D

♥anne 

musical memories // take the money and run aaooooahhh!

back in high school we congregated around the snowbird at lunch(pictured above). shawn, the owner of the snowbird, made delicious frozen yogurt and also supplied us with music. sometimes it was classic rock on the radio and sometimes it was a student's cassette tape. since there was a variety of tastes in music, people occasionally got in small tiffs over the selection of the day. everyone mostly got mad when a grateful dead tape would go in. now, i had nothing against the grateful dead back then, but i didn't particularly like some of the deadheads at my school. anyway, one day we were sitting there eating frozen yogurt. the deadheads were near by playing hacky sack and take the money and run came on the radio. when it got to, "they headed down to, ooh, old el paso" we all did the hand claps (you kinda have to do the hand claps on that part, right?). we all glanced at each other and laughed. that was the day steve miller band brought us all together. the date was 2-15-94. hahaha JUST KIDDING! i don't remember the date! but i do think of this story every time i hear the song.

have a fun weekend!

♥anne