october brings halloween

I can't believe it's already October!  Time is flying by.  I'm so excited for fall, because that means Christmas is coming!  But that's a long ways away, so for now, I'm getting myself amped for Halloween.  My boyfriend and I are going to go as steampunk pirates.  My corset is in the mail, and we're working on making goggles and guns.

This weekend we are flying over to Mau'i for my paternal grandmother's funeral.  She lived a long and wonderful life.  She painted a beautiful painting of Mount St. Helen just weeks before it exploded, liked to do word searches, and had 5 great children.

It'll be neat to see all of my aunts and uncles in once place... I haven't even met my Uncle Craig.  The Okamoto kids are just so spread out all over the continental U.S. - Washington, Oregon, Kentucky, Nevada... I'll finally get to see them all!

On a parting note, here is a photography by Eden Lee that completely took my breath away: