So, not a lot of new stuff to put up right at the moment, but I did want to do a bit of follow-up from the end of October. It was fairly busy, and we did have at least two big events that I wanted to mention.
The first was Don's (Torrey's Dad) 50th birthday party. The whole
family spent most of the day at Don's condo, mingling and celebrating the man that raised Torrey. Torrey has done so much to help all of us, and he lays the praise squarely at Don's feet. I've heard him tell time and time again that if it wasn't for Don adopting him, he knows that he wouldn't have the happy life that he has now, and wouldn't have the resources to help all of us the way he has. So, besides being a great Grandpa and good friend, we have all that to thank Don for as well.
It was a pretty gala event, with a towering cake and a ton of guests.
Michael Ramirez did a lot to set up and organize the event, and we all chipped in before hand with a little elbow grease to help out. There were somewhere around 40 guests in Don's condo, so moving around required a good imitation of salmon swimming upstream. Highlights of the party included a video montage of all of Don's guests commenting on Don and their history with him, and Siddha, who was, as usual, the hit of the party.
The other big event at the end of the month was Halloween. The family as a whole has a good time, even though Torrey usually ends up working at the Costume Shop, which is
a good family friend of ours that is understandably swamped around this time of year. Everyone had a good time, with the kids Trick-or-Treating just before sundown around Lisa's neighborhood and scoring a ton of good loot. Lisa decorated her house, and was apparently so scary
she managed to keep a few of the younger kids from even making it to the door.
The kids costumes were adorable in their costumes, and even Lisa and Bill got into it. If
this was a photo blog, I'd add in a couple of dozen
great pictures we took of the kids in costume, Dan and
Megan in their amazing Daphne and Velma costumes, Torrey in his
Fabulous Fire thing, the house in all it's spooky Halloween glory, etc etc etc. But, if you're read
ing this, more likely than not you have our Flickr links with all the photo's up there. If not, look up on the right at the small montage of images,
and click on it to go to our photostream. Between use and the girls we probably have a hundred pictures up from that night, so there's plenty to go around.
Anywho, I'm going to leave it off there for now. I'll toss up another post fairly soon covering Tre's birthday party(ies) and the 54th Street Zoo Adoption Day gala.
