this is halloween, everybody scream!

Well, Halloween isn't here quite yet. But my nephew Ian is all ready for it:

Auntie Pantz thinks that this Star Wars fan may be the cutest Stormtrooper she's ever seen! (Correction: I've been informed that this is not actually a Stormtrooper costume, but a Clone Trooper costume! This is important because a Clone Trooper is a good guy, like our Ian!)

While it's not Halloween yet, it is my little brother's birthday today! Happy Birthday Ryguy! When I was looking for a card for him, I thought of doing one of my favorite things: buying a card for a 2-year-old and changing all the references from 2 to 22. Yeah, I'm funny like that. It then occurred to me that my brother is 10 years younger than me. And 34 take away 10 is not 22!! In some ways it's easier to believe that my baby sister is 18 and graduating from high school this year than to believe that I have a brother in his mid twenties! Where does the time go?! I can still remember him dancing around on the driveway pretending to be a video game! (Okay, it's possible that he still does that!) In the end I'm glad that I went with a non age-specific card....I would've looked pretty dumb! And I hope that Ryan has a great 24th birthday!!