Peter and the Goth Girl

Last year, Peter and I went to the Release Party for the final (gasp) Harry Potter book. At the last minute, we brought along another kid, Evvie. The relationship, and story, get a little complicated (what doesn't in my life?), but basically Evelyn is Trina's (my SIL) cousin's eldest daughter. It gets further confusing because Evelyn and her sisters refer to Trina as Auntie; when Evvie and Peter were trying to figure out what relation they were to each other last year, I said "Just say cousins. Anything else is too confusing!"

Anyway, so Evelyn and her family were in North Carolina last summer for a Presbyterian conference; her Dad (Bruce, Trina's cuz) is a minister. Her Mom (who's job, I'm suddenly embarassed to realize, I have NO CLUE about!) was speaking at the conference, so they had to be here early, and Bruce decided to take the three girls on a Rock-n-Roll tour of North Carolina, totally forgetting that HP 7 was being released smack in the middle of it.

So, Peter and I stepped in, and took Evvie with us.

Now, mind you, I was really looking forward to this party. After years of waiting, Peter was finally reading the books, and I was really looking forward to the two of us going to the party.

Needless to say, once Evvie showed up, I became an afterthought! He will probably kill me for blogging this (assuming I let him read this post), but he developed a massive baby-crush on Evvie. Not a bad thing at all -- she's incredibly bright, and very funny kid, I already know I like her family, and she shows all signs of being incredibly gorgeous as an adult.

But she's become Goth! Ok, not really, she was playing a role in a school play. But, GOSH she does it well, doesn't she?!

I blame Auntie Trina -- I'm sure after introducing Evvie to Rockband and the suggestive lyrics therein, she must've had a hand in this.... :-)