Okay. First off: Pirates. Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em.

Doc is obessed.There is no other way to put it. He is armed with a pirate raincoat, pirate rain boots, pirate legos, pirate tv shows, and pirate maps. If it has anything to do with pirates, Doc is your guy. (Please note:we do not own parrots. Due to lack of crackers in the Topliff household it does not meet all of the requirements in the Pirate Parrot Code of Conduct Rulebook. Page: 13 Paragraph: 2 Line: 4, if you were wondering.)

Did I mention Doc loves Pirates? No? Well, Doc loves Pirates. He loves GEASHURE maps, too! And no, not TREASURE maps. Geashure maps. There is a difference, I mean, come on! (I really don’t think there is a difference, but Doc insists!) I recently made him a pirate map that he went crazy over. The only thing I heard for the next two days were: Gacie have Geashure Map? Find Geashure box wiff Gacie?

Millie also likes Geashure maps, she thinks they make good chew toys.

Speaking of Millie, she has been super cute this past week!

From sleeping in our parents bed:

To snuggling with my mom during movie night:

She has been so sweet! I remember when we first got her! (She came from a litter of 10!)

She stood out like a Millie in a crowd of Scruffys.

I remember seeing her for the first time like it was yesterday…

She had such a pink nose, and from them moment Scruffy saw her he new, right then and there, that he was going to be the most annoying brother ever.

Nothing like 1 toddler, a hyper puppy, and a resource hog-dog in quarantine, am I right or am I right!

In other news, I haven’t told my daily embarrassing Topliff family lifestyle story yet! This week’s topic…

HALLOWEEN COSTUMES!!! Every year for many years my mom made our costumes. And we WEREN’T allowed to be characters from books or movies. That was my fault. At my friend’s birthday party, when I was 4, I got a t-shirt with the Frozen characters. My parents had to fight me to take it off! So from then on my parents expected a crazy brawl if any character outfit whatsoever got into me or my sibling’s grasp. Basically, no characters. We came up with some pretty ingenious ideas…. These are all of the halloween costume photos we could find of me. (My family members are in a lot of them.) I am missing the 2016 halloween costume photo.

That was almost all of the costumes throughout my lifetime. Twelve years of great ideas and free candy! This next costume isn’t of me but I’m going to assume that it is quite the crowd pleaser!

I have to go, but it has been fun reliving all of those moments with you!

Happy (very early) Halloween!

-Grace