Halloween

Two posts in a little over two days? Is everything okay in Poogieville?  We think so.

In the interests of time, I'm dispensing with the formality.  Halloween firsts this year: Will celebrated his first trick or treat and Josie did her first pre-school show.

Let the pictures do the talking, Poogie. 

The dragon and his very hairy father.

The Bills discuss griffin magic and strange looking Halloween decorations.

Equal lap time.

The kids pose with Jake the Boston Terrier (not the one on the right...the one hidden in the middle).

Darth Vader and the Real Housewife of Tattooine.

Will and the Mayor at Phineas and Ferb show.

The crew after the live Phineas and Ferb show.

Will showing off his Elton John hair.

The kids pose for the obligatory Halloween shot on our stairs.

Like I said, equal lap time.



Vignettes

Yeah, we know.  Long time, no bloggie. 

We're raising a decent sized litter here.  Baseball games, baseball practices, basketball games, basketball practices, PSR x 2, tap lessons, jazz dance lessons, cheerleading practice, homework, school, after-school programs, birthday parties, two naps a day, and a ten-month old who is nearly walking.

Josie wants to add a gymnastics class.

I want to add an undocumented alien with a knack for housekeeping and soft hands. 

I'm not so sure about the housekeeping part.  (Wink).

Anydoodle, here we are.  We do stuff.  Lots of stuff.  We also take pictures -- occasionally.  For our 11th wedding anniversary Erica and I took a kidless trip to Chicago and snapped a grand total of four pictures -- all clean.

Well, maybe not "all" clean if you dig interpretative art. 

I'm sure someone [Bill] will be able to interpret the artist's eye on this random shot outside the Chicago MoMA.

Light as a feather...

Tall building = easy comic sequitur.  Oh and by the way,before anyone goes, "Rob, you're such a juvenile," the building shot was Erica's idea. 

I'm sure there's a joke there too.

Here's another of the four pictures from Chicago.  This one was a timer shot off of the overpriced wet bar in our room at the Drake Hotel.  It cost us $9.37 to take this picture.  Apparently, unused wetbars run nearly ten bucks in Chicago.

Go figure.



The 11th Anniversary Gift is the headlock.

Going back a ways, the kids helped Mom (Nana) celebrate her 27th birthday back in Terre Haute.



Photogenic pair, if you ask me.

Funky Holmans Hoffman.

When I get my act together, I'll pull some of the Traverse City pictures out.  In the meantime, here's a cute shot of the newer brothers Holman -- Henry and Will -- in Michigan.

"We can't overlook the role of the full moon."

-Wolfman Apologist

Henry's first day of school was in August.  I'm just now posting picture of it.  How pathetic is that?

Don't answer that.

Henry's bus on the first day.
In other news, the Mayor of Poogieville needs a hairpiece.

Jim Thome's homecoming game at Jacobs Field.

Caroline's first (second) day of school.

Caroline and Caroline cheering for Twinsburg.



Five Good Minutes in Chicago

From one of the best time-lapse artists on the planet.     

Good Morning Chicago - Your daily sunrise for the month of June from Craig Shimala on Vimeo.