My Goodness, My Guinness: Happy Halloween!

I'm SO happy and excited that it's Halloween!! I'm excited to sit outside tonight with our neighbor and hand out candy to trick-or-treaters! Today (Wednesday) is my normal work-from-home day, so I'm so happy I get to work from home on Halloween! I am watching The Sixth Sense right now, and I think I'll watch The Shining next!! And we just carved pumpkins last night, so today I'm going to roast up the pumpkin seeds!

I'll give you a better look at our pumpkins after tonight!

We have had a really amazing Fall so far!! We've been busy with lots of fun Fall activities, but we've also had lots of time to relax and enjoy being home. Last weekend we were supposed to go camping at Assateague Island with McGee's family and a bunch of their family friends. If you haven't heard of Assateague Island, it's the island that has a bunch of wild horses. We tried to go camping there a few years ago with this same group (there's a blog post about it), but a hurricane decided to hit so we had to quickly go to a hotel. Well, a nearby hurricane was supposed to cause a lot of crazy weather issues again last weekend (thunderstorms and crazy winds), so this time the group called it off ahead of time because they didn't want everyone to travel there and then have to scramble to leave again like last time. So, we ended up having a free weekend! Since the weather was supposed to be pretty terrible (crazy rain, etc), we thought it would be the perfect time to go to the Philadelphia Zoo! We looove going to the zoo when the weather is terrible, because there are ZERO people there and the animals love it. We had a great time and the zoo had lots of cool Halloween decorations, etc!

You guys! Look at the beautiful colors in the trees at the zoo!

These two tigers REALLY wanted the leopard that was next to them!

You guys!! Seriously!! Such a beautiful tree at the zoo.

The otters were SOOOO playful while we were there! We watched them for awhile!

The giraffes! There's a new baby giraffe there.

Beau! The baby giraffe!

Here's another picture of cute little Beau.

We got the see the Sloth Bear climb the tree (SO crazy fast!) and go after this pumpkin that the zookeepers had hung from the tree!

After he knocked it down he scurried down the tree SO fast and started eating his pumpkin.

Baby gorilla!

The dad gorilla... He was NOT amused by the baby.

Another AMAZING tree at the zoo!!! I can't even handle all the pretty colors.

Time for a Fall Bucket List update!! We've done a LOT of the things from our list already.

We've decorated for Halloween (I'll take more pictures tonight and post them later this week!), we went and got apples/pumpkins/gourds, last night we carved pumpkins and today I'll roast the seeds, and we watched a LOT of Halloween movies! You guys, Halloweentown is GARBAGE!!! That movie was just awful. I'd heard it was cheesy yet amazing like Hocus Pocus (and I loooove Hocus Pocus!), and it's actually just really terrible. I apologize if you like it and I've offended you, but please know in your heart-of-hearts that Halloweentown is a really terrible movie. I felt bad for all of the actors in it (especially the amazing Debbie Reynolds). We will NOT be watching that one again! But, all of the other movies have been AMAZING!! And for the "one more horror movie" we watched The Lost Boys. That movie scared me SO much when I was a kid, but now it's just awesome and funny. Kevin had never seen it, and he really liked it too! It's 80s amazingness for sure.

For the rest of the items on the list, we've definitely had lots of Oktoberfest beers (I love them! I think they're my favorite kind of beer), and I've made some apple goodness! I made apple-cheddar scones. This weekend I will also be making an apple pie! For pumpkin goodness, I haven't really made much aside from the Trader Joe's things I previously mentioned. We've made some soups but no breads yet, and we've definitely had some football and Crockpot Sundays! And for the Fall camping, I'm not sure if that's going to happen this year or not now that Assateague was cancelled. We might still try to go in November, but I'm not sure if we'll have time and if the weather will cooperate.