Halloween, and Thanksgiving plans

 Hey guys!  Wow, I feel like Fall is really flying by this year... It feels like it just started but it's already wrapping up!  The trees in our neighborhood are looking GORGEOUS right now, and there are leaves on the ground everywhere too.  The temps have been REALLY chilly overnight and in the mornings, so it definitely feels like Winter is approaching already!  Crazy.  Here's some pics of the progress of trees in our neighborhood (I took these pics every week so you can see the progress!): 

Fall's barely starting in this one!  Just some leaves on on the ground and some leaves starting to yellow.

And then here's just a few random trees in our neighborhood that were looking lovely: 

 

Our Halloween was good!  We were able to do most of the Halloween things from my Bucket List (I'll put the updated one towards the bottom of this post). We carved pumpkins and sat outside to give treats to trick-or-treaters.  Our neighbor sat across the street and did the same, so we were able to chat and catch up from across the street which was our tradition until last year (we didn't do anything last year).  It was nice to do our tradition again, and we had fun! 

Here's a few pictures of decorations in our neighborhood: 

These witches were creepy!!  They were up a hill under a bunch of trees, and it looked super creepy and I LOVE it!! 

Here's our pumpkins!  Kevin's is on the left and mine is on the right

There's some bat lights hanging on the fireplace too but the picture turned out funny if they were on, so they're off for the pic.  In the picture below you can see the blue/purple glow from them though! 

Aren't those skulls cool?  Those were my new addition this year and I love them!! 

A blow mold!!  I ordered this online for pickup at a hardware store over the summer because it was on super clearance (I guess because it was like June and nobody else was thinking about Halloween?) and I LOVE it!! It's probably like 3 feet tall and it's just amazing.  Blow molds are just the coolest.  I don't know why, but I really love them.  We have a tall Santa that we got from my parents so I'll show that at Christmas time!  I think I shared a pic of it last Christmas too. 

Here are some mummy lights and a few more Halloween decorations! 

And here's one of my favorite Oktoberfest beers I had this year!  Which brings me to my updated Bucket List, and then I'll discuss Thanksgiving stuff after that. 

So as you can see, we've done almost everything!  There are 2 movies we didn't get to watch (ran out of time!), and I'm still working on making more soups/breads/apple and pumpkin stuff.  And then the 3 Thanksgiving things are left! 

I think Thanksgiving is going to be different than we'd planned though, because I've had some medical stuff going on and I'm actually going to have to have surgery on November 22.  I think most of you already know, and I don't want to bore you (or gross you out) with details, but I have to have a hysterectomy and oophorectomy.  So, my surgeon said recovery will be 4 to 6 weeks, so I don't think Kevin and I will be doing much for Thanksgiving.  Trader Joe's makes a brined and cooked turkey breast that we're going to try to get (it just has to get heated up in the oven for 40 minutes! Easy peasy), and then we'll maybe grab a few other easy things, but I'm not sure.  I have decorated for Thanksgiving (pictures below!), but I think we might take our Thanksgiving decorations down soon and decorate for Christmas early, because I'm not sure when I'll be up for decorating for Christmas after my surgery.

You can see my 3 gourds for this year (2 in this pic and one in the pic before), and these were all from Trader Joe's!  Gourds are so fun.  

So, that's our Fall!  I probably won't post again before my surgery, but I'll definitely post afterwards and post my Christmas bucket list (almost all movies this year...) and share some pictures of our Christmas decorations too!  Love you guys, and I hope you all have a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving!!