Halloween weekend!

So I left off the other day with a story and a few anidotes of what went on leading up to halloween. On Friday, after I got off of work I ran home to work out. About an hour later the girls got home as Alexa had brought her friend Mackenzie home to stay the night. About 6pm I got the three of them dressed and we took off to do some trick or treating. Our street did a fair amount of bag filling, but on the next street over we were surprised to find about 1 out of every 4 with candy. Some even opened the door to say that they were not doing Halloween this year.
We made our rounds for about 3 streets and then the nice witch(Mackenzie), hannah Montana(you guessed it Alexa) and the Pirate(yep, P.J.) and me the bag holder returned home to regroup. We dumped out the candy and got ready to hit the other side of the neighborhood. Hollywood joined us and she was a hoot! She had bought the pimp suit at Walmart and taken it to the next level by making a grill out of tin foil and stealing the clock from their dining room at home. She fashioned it to her necklace and showed up at our door as Flavor - Flav the rapper from teh 90's. So she joined in and we finished up the neighborhood making a pitstop at some friends' houses around the block. Each year they hide in teh yard and in the garage and run out to scare the older kids. It's hilarious to watch so I usually take the girls back home and go back to hang out and watch. But, as I approached with the girls they heard the screaming and saw the chainsaws out chasing and they laughed hysterically, as did Katie and I. When we got close to their house we witnessed as 2 adult females and 3 teenagers ran for their lives leaving 2 little kids standing in the road by themselves. The adults ran off and left the kids who did not look nearly as scared as they did.
Saturday, I did very little as my neck pains have reared their ugly heads again. I did spread some mulch, clean out both of the fish ponds and finish up the bulletin for church. THen, I rushed out to the church and did some more scrubbing on our front porch area to get rid of the glue and adhesive. I scrubbed for about a hour and a half by hand before returning home to enjoy the game. I told Tara up front it would not be much of a game, that Georgia got luck last year with Tebow hurt and they aren't any better. Florida got 10 times better and added more weapons on defense and offense. My prediction to her was Florida 49 and Georgia 21. Even I gave Georgia way too much credit. Needless to say, I cannot wait for Christmas and my time in Georgia with Tara's family. hahaha!
If you see P.J. she did not get beaten by her family, she actually crashed her bike and took the skin off the left side of her face and got a nice swollen black eye. She kind of looks like something out of a Rocky movie!
Sunday, we had a good service and prayer meeting in teh evening. Tara put together a group of girls and ladies and they all went shopping in Jacksonville for the afternoon. We are hoping to make this a monthly thing for them and see them get a lot closer through different things done together. It was our first step in starting some form of women's groups at the church and it went off well. 8 of them got together and had a blast.
So that's it the weekend in recap. I'm hoping and praying for this election as I hope you are as well. Have a great day and thanks for reading!