Halloween FoodFest

The Scary Hostess

The Barfing Pumpkin

"Boo"glers

Ghostly Graveyard

Bony Brew

Mummy Dogs

Molted Cheese Maggots

Festering Fangs

Bones 'n' Marrow

Bloody Mummys

Corpse Fingers

Cute Kiddy Cupcakes

Christmastown Treats

Beach 2011

Jill loves Olivia (it's on the shirt!)

As usual, we had a great time in Mexico. The kids played wonderfully with their (2nd and 3rd) cousins. The bioluminescence in the water was not as pronounced as last year, but still way cool.

Alex and his not so secret admirer.

Sweet Shades

Hard Drive Heartbreak

I actually have done a decent job of backing up all our photos to Shutterfly, and getting my favorite videos uploaded to my Youtube account, but still, when the hard drive died I realized I hadn't finished backing up all the vacation media. But the worst part was that I had just barely taken all the photos off my phone from the past 1 1/2 yrs and put them on the computer. And erased them from the phone. Sigh.

So, apple-philes out there, do we update to Snow Leopard and leave it at that? Or do we go all the way to Lion? Do we then rely on iCloud as backup or subscribe to Carbonite?

On a separate note, the electric company is taking its sweet time responding to my email letting them know that not only have they been giving us free power since December of 2010, but they have been crediting us for power that we have used. The more we use, the more we save! (We have photovoltaic panels tied in to the grid and they are reading the meter wrong. Or they set it up wrong.) I have tried calling them, using their "we'll call you back when a service representative is available" feature, but they have never called. Wish us luck.