Saturday Night at Clave Brothers Party

Clave brothers Nakia & Milton hosted a Halloween Costume party in Simpsonville Saturday night. It was amazing the quality, variety & quantity of costumes. From dancers, police women, nurses & demons, grim reapers and nuns, french maids & prisoners, from Disney to Renaissance. You think of it, you could find it, in the room.

I really enjoyed getting time to chat and get to know people. Many of which I see regularly at Eastside & may have danced with, but never got the time to get to know. I enjoyed how many people were willing to mix outside of their typical circles to get to know others. And it was interesting to see the wide geographical patterns from Simpsonville to Spartanburg from Inman to Tryon to Hendersonville.

And everyone was kicking back & relaxing and enjoying hanging out. Food & drinks for all. The house was laid out perfectly to allow people to circulate. And of course I enjoyed catching shots of the many people there. Take a look at the fun photos. If anyone wants me to make a copy or email them one just let me know...

Haloween Salseros

Costumes are fun

... It's fun to see the creative sides of our natures. For some the masks are applied before they will share another dimension of their creativity, while for others the masks come off and the bravado is flashed. What I enjoy most ... celebrating the individuality that exists for those few moments in costume.

One interesting thing to attempt is to wear a costume while dancing. There are difficult challenges -- headdresses requiring further reaches, shoes or boots that are difficult to dance in, or ears that fall off during turns.

During this years contest the top six -- construction works, dracula, geisha girl, Carmen Miranda, Carlos the free gynecologist and the pineapple lady. The winner of the night was Alex the Dracula. Check out the fun pics from the evening. Click here

Jayden's Birthday

Jayden's first birthday appeared to be a success. :) Janelle did a beautiful job decorating. Tons of family and friends showed up to watch and share in the celebration. Janelle used a theme of ducks and now Jayden has several stuffed animals- including ducks that quack,dogs and cats as well as a few puppets. He has his own leap frog laptop and elmo phone, several puzzles and tons of books- several with noise squares to push, two riding toys, two tonka dump trucks Jayden liked to turn into riding toys, blocks, several cute outfits, some baby einstein videos, duck slippers, tadoodles, a basketball hoop to name a few.... There was tons of food. It was nice to see so many come out to celebrate. And several other children who played well with Jayden. Jayden did well and I am sure is blessed by everyones generosity...

Jayden's Birthday pictures

Sushi and salsa and church in less than 24 hours

I got a chance to go to a salsa/hibachi restaurant on Saturday and then went salsa dancing later that night. Here are some pics from sushi.Its been fun getting out and doing things. It was such a blast at La Montana dancing with a crowd we knew from the other club- Eastside. I stayed out way beyond late that morning. And then got up after only a few hours of sleep to go to Church. At church the pastor challenged us to stop trying so hard to fit in and hide our uniqueness when God created us to be unique. He challenged us to stop caring about what people think and more about what God thinks -- especially when it comes to evaluating our life. And especially not to allow others attitudes or interactions with us to stop us from the work or destiny or harvest that God has called us to. (for example --when we are surrounded by others who are failing in our lives choosing to fail at something in order to fit in and not be isolated by being so blessed with success instead of living in the blessing God intended)

Time with the Wilders

I haven't had time to hang out with the whole Wilder family in a while. I got to babysit Jayden Friday and then hang out on Sunday. Jayden is so sweet and growing up so fast. And it was fun to hang out with Janelle and tag team shopping -- helping find things we both needed - in this case shoes. And chilling with Josie who pampered us by running out for pumpkin cappuccinos. Check out some of the cute pics and the kitchen colors in the Josie and Jayden pics and the dining room colors with Jayden and the ball pics.