I was getting caught up on my google reader backlog today and loved seeing everyone’s Halloween pictures.  Thought I would share a few of ours…even if it’s a few days late!  Will had a total blast trick-or-treating with his best friend and neighbor Ems (the cute scarecrow and his hug-buddy) and he also loved receiving trick-or-treaters once we’d finished our walk up and down our street.  He loved wishing everyone “Happy ‘Ween!”  (And I appreciate that he looks three years younger in his chicken suit!)

(For the shutter bugs out there, these were all taken with our 5d and 50mm f/1.4 [my usual "run around with the family on a holiday or birthday" lens] with natural light.  The after dark trick-or-treating shots were at 1600 ISO and f/1.4 at 1/50 second.)

I do!  Bernadette and I met today for a coffee/voting date.  The best part was definitely the sticker.  And the fact that we brought down the average age in the polling station by about 150 years.

Living in a swing state is fun.   It makes your vote feel all special and important.  Grab a friend and head to the mall for a voting/window shopping/coffee date!  Having someone to wait along with you makes it feel more like a party and less like a trip to the DMV.

(If you’re not sure if your state does early voting, you can be like me and learn about it last night while watching Chuck on hulu.com and then find your polling station here.  [Disclaimer: it's an Obama site, but I couldn't find an independent version that was as straight forward/quick to use.])

I …umm… found this video on You Tube today. It makes me laugh.

Please note that any resemblance to my child, husband, house or backyard is purely coincidental. I would never make a video montage of my baby falling down to end our annual home movie video…and if I did make such a montage, I would never burn a back-up copy, watch it six months later and catch the audio mistake half-way through that sounds like a burp but is really the mom saying “woah” and then try to go back and fix that mistake only to discover that the original files are gone and all that’s left is this defective version that refuses to present an easy fix. I would never do anything like that.