Our Halloween! And don't forget to vote tomorrow!

Hey guys!  I can't believe we're already about a week into November!  Crazy!  And on that note, don't forget to vote tomorrow!!  It's such an important election, so please please please vote.

Our Halloween was pretty good. It started out GREAT, and I was having so much fun hanging out outside with McGee and our neighbor Ed, and giving candy to trick-or-treaters.  We bought full-sized candy bars to hand out for the first time ever, because Amazon had an amazing deal, so we were like "Let's go for it!".  So, the kids were loving it, we were getting a good amount of trick-or-treaters, and it was super fun! But... 

Then McGee went in our house to use the bathroom at around 7:30pm... and this van of kids pulled up (so they weren't even walking around the neighborhood... they were just driving around).  One 17-year-old-ish kid got out, along with 4 other kids that ranged all the way down to about a 5-year-old kid.  So, 5 kids, aged 5 to 17.  Well, they came over to me and I was like "Hey guys!  Happy Halloween!  Go ahead and pick one!".  Well, these kids started grabbing handfuls of the full-sized candy bars.  And I was like, "No wait!  Just grab one, you guys!", and they were all still going back for more candy.  They basically told me "No, we're going to take more than one", and I had to pull my bucket away as they were still reaching for it and grabbing more.  I told them again that they were just supposed to take one and they again told me no, and I was so frustrated that I actually went into one of the kid's buckets and grabbed some of the candy bars (he had literally taken 8 of our full-sized candy bars), and I grabbed like 6 of them back.  But while I was doing that the oldest kid was reaching back in for more.  They finally felt like they'd taken enough and left me to go across the street to Ed.  So, it was truly awful.  They took almost all of our candy, and I felt totally violated and pushed-around and sad.  We ended up having to borrow some candy from our neighbor Ed so that we had candy to give to the rest of the trick-or-treaters for the night.

Our front window! 

Our front door! 

Our pumpkins in the daylight!  It was about 5:30 when we went out there and started getting trick-or-treaters! 

Our set-up!  We also added some bat-shaped lights to our table once it started to get darker, but I forgot to take a picture of those! 

Here's the sweatshirt I wore!  I had to cover it with a jacket later in the evening when it got really cold. 

Our pumpkins once it got dark!  Mine is on the left, and McGee's is on the right. 

I've taken a bunch of pictures of our neighborhood lately because it has been pretty glorious to look at!  So, get ready for an overload of trees/leaves pictures:

This is just up the hill from our house, looking down the next street!

Further down that same street... 

And further down that street again! (it's a very long street)

Just around the block from us. 

Our house and our yard!  You can see our pumpkins on our front porch! 

Around the corner from us!  And this isn't a filter or anything... Those are the ACTUAL colors of the leaves! (they almost look like flowers, but they're leaves!)  

So tomorrow is election day and I feel excited to vote but very nervous/anxious about the results.  I am planning on doing some cooking when I get home from voting (I get to leave work at 2pm tomorrow thanks to a crazy project I was working on last week!  I get to leave 2 hours early one day as a reward, so I'm choosing tomorrow so I can hopefully avoid long lines).  I'm going to make a version of shepherd's pie for dinner because it'll make me focus on something besides election results for a while :)  It'll help calm me, hopefully!!  I love you all, and I hope you had a great Halloween!  Don't forget to vote tomorrow!!