Friday, October 31, 2008

broken tradition - flashback friday

It's Flashback Friday!!  And today, October 31, 2008 a Shauan family tradition has been broken.  It's Avery's fifth halloween and Auntie Heather was no where to be found.  And to make it worse.  She missed Reichen's first time trick or treating!  It's not like Auntie Heather is lost.  We know where she is.  She's in Cambodia for six months helping a Khmer church pioneer a missions program. So does she have a good reason to be AWOL?  Yes, of course.  But there is a hole in our pictures, there is a hole in our heart, there is a hole in our family tradition.  It's an Auntie Heather hole.  We miss you Auntie Heather!!  Trick or treating just wasn't the same.  (I couldn't find the pictures of 2006 or 2007, but Heather was there for the chicken and the pirate) 


Auntie Heather and Super Baby 2004

Auntie Heather and Giraffe Raffe 2005

Police Officer Avery wondering where Auntie Heather is 2008

4 comments:

Heather said...

oh, my heart just broke...but he does make a really cute police man....i say in march we have our own halloween to make up for last night's broken tradition

Suzanne said...

O my word... this is the cutest halloween costume I've ever seen! Can't wait to see pictures of both boys on Facebook doing the Halloween thang!

Suznane

Andrea said...

Your boys are simply the cutest (boys of course cause I win girls!) I wish Anna and Avery could still be friends...so many friends in so many places, sigh.

Vickie said...

shouldn't Av be eating a donut? Love this picture.

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