happy halloween!

my first halloween home in like 9 years! it's our family's favorite holiday and my sister hosts a big ass pumpkin carving party every year. in addition to my gorey red velvet cemetery cake, this year R decided that we would have meatball sammiches. after shopping and cooking and preparing the entire nite before, we were prepped for the big day. guests started arriving early in the afternoon:



mall cop joe rocked his outfit:


chicken burn:


food time:


carving time:









let's light 'em up!



the porch during the day:


and at nite:




a costume parade of trick or treaters:

short trip home

got to stop for a short visit home before heading to the islands where i got to spend a little time making new friends, like baby Rey:


and playing pirate with old friends like willy mac:


dinner with the girls:


lunch at ulysses with the older sibling. R's greek chicken and cheese pie was yum . . .


the flaming cheese:


gyro salad:


fun in the pumpkin patch:





checking out plates at the crate and barrel:


lunch at the worst coochie, er, the wurstkuche, in LA with the b-i-l:


this place had all kinds of weird ass sausages like alligator + pork + veal:



C prepares to savor his first bite:


trying to figure out how to put into words what the rattlesnake + rabbit + pork sausage tastes like.

Home for Family Dinners

Mexican at Lucy's (apparently Slash of Guns n' Roses was at the next table but dad insisted it was Howard Stern):










Korean BBQ (mmmmmm . . . . meat):






crepes in LBC with both sets of parental units:






looks like dad made a new friend.