Yo, yo, the coolest Storm Trooper and Ninja Turtle around!
Traditional hot dog mummy's
Taking a break to look through some of their loot!
What can I say, this will go down as one of the best Halloweens ever! We had so much fun at Emi and Grandpa's this year since Halloween fell on a Saturday this year. We met up with great friends for some pre-game drinks. Then we went on a hayride through the neighborhood sipping on spiked hot chocolate while the kids went door to door. Then when we came home Grandpa had made a ROARING fire for us in the firepit. A perfect end to a perfect day!
These were so fun for our Halloween party tonight. We used pumpkin spice cake mix and made the cupcakes according to package directions. Then we made a simple buttercream icing and dyed the icing orange. Then we used a black icing pen to draw on jack-o-lantern faces. So cute!
Look at all those beautiful leaves to play in! The scene when we arrived on Friday evening. :)
We were welcomed into the warm house to loaded baked potato soup and red wine. Both equally soothing for the soul!
This was a dish suggested by my hubby, and it actually turned out pretty tasty!
I sauteed the beef tips with seasonings in a pan, then I made the gravy using 4 tablespoons of butter and 4 tablespoons of flour and 3 cups of beef broth, simmering until thickened. I poured the gravy mixture and beef tips over french fries I baked in the oven according to package directions. Yummy!
These were so fun to make. I just used store bought sugar cookies and cut them into rectangular shapes. Then I whipped up a buttercream frosting and dyed it green. Then I used marshmallows for the eyes and a black frosting pen to make the hair, eyes and mouth! They turned out super cute.
We had so much fun at our local hometown highs chool football teams home game! It was really extra fun being the week before Halloween, with a chill in the air and the spirit of fall all around us! The team won too!
This is a fun craft for the kids! Cute out a "ghost" pattern and add eyes and a mouth. Let the kids fill in the ghost with cotton balls that they glue onto the pattern!
The boys hard at work painting their pumpkins from Aunt C.
The amazing pumpkins! End results!
So cute.
It was a night of fun and festivities with great friends. We had homemade chilli, carved pumpkins, had Halloween music going from Pandora as we worked, and ended the night watching "The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown." We are blessed with great times!
These are a fun way to celebrate a weekend breakfast for the kiddos. I just shaped the regular pancake batter into pumpkins and then once they were cooled a little I placed chocolate chips to mold a face for each individual pumpkin!
They kind of fell apart so we just ended up decorating individual cookie squares. It was still a lot of fun! Notice the homemade butter beer in the background!
This was a delightful treat, but so sweet and filling! Still, it's worth a try, at least once!
2 cups milk
1 cup cream soda
1/4 cup butter
Melt butter, then add to 2 cups milk, stirring together. Then place the mixture into a microwave save bowl and cook for 3-5 minutes or until the milk is foamy. Then add 1 cup cream soda and pour into a Harry Potter looking mug! (If you have one of course). Yum!
The cutest pumpkin in the patch!
Skeleton Twins
Peace!
Hey Sunshine.
Ahhhh pumpkins everywhere!
Hay fight!
The Handsome-est first born.
Wildlife around the farm!
Rollin' in the hay!
Beautiful
Ready for the "haunted" hayride!
Having fun in a fire and rescue first responder truck.
Sitting inside the wheel of a HUGE monster truck!
So cute they're scary! I just made cupcakes according to box instructions on a cake mix. Then I made icing using 4 tablespoons of butter, softened and mixed, then I added 3 to 4 cups of confectioners sugar with about 2-3 tablespoons of milk and a teaspoon and a half of vanilla until the frosting was a nice consistency. Then I cut large marshmallows in half, pulled back the cupcake liner and placed the half marshmallow to make a "jaw" for the skeletons. Then I added mini chocolate chips for eyes, nose and a mouth!
It's still raining and dreary out. We needed a pick me up this morning! I made these cute ghost pancakes for the kids to enjoy. They thought these were a hoot!
I just used box mix pancake mix and spooned a circle onto the hot griddle and then formed a "tail" at the bottom to form the ghost shape. Once I took them off the hot griddle, I placed three chocolate chips, two for eyes and one for a mouth on the hot cakes and they melted right in. Adorable!
With his massive board game tower!
The kids loved eating this cute pizza. I had a store bought round crust, as well as pepperoni which I lined around the circle and then cut to make a Jack-O-Lantern looking mouth and nose. Super cute!
Hurricane Joquin had a lot to do with this rainy chilly day, but it sure is cozy to look out the window at the fall leaves on the grass while listening to the rain... :)
Did someone say cake? And Candy Corn cake at that?
This was a fun recipe to do.
1. I mixed together one white cake mix from a box according to the box instructions.
2. I cut the mixture into thirds, using about a cup and a half for each bowl, so that I could have one bowl be regular, one bowl be orange (with food coloring mixed in) and the third bowl be yellow after food coloring blended.
3. After mixing the yellow batter, I placed it in the bottom of a baking dish 9/13, and sprayed with cooking spray, and placed that in the freezer for 20 minutes. Once that came out, I added the orange on top and placed in the freezer for another 20 minutes. Then I pre-heated the oven and placed the final white layer on top and baked in the oven according to the cake mix box instructions.
4. While the cake was baking I made the whipping topping using 2 cups heavy whipping cream (I always use heavy because it mixes faster) in a metal bowl that was placed in the freezer for 10 minutes, and mixing in 2 to 3 tablespoons of sugar to the heavy whipping cream (depending on how sweet you want it), then I mixed it with a hand mixer until soft peaks formed.
5. Once the cake came out of the oven and was cooled, I spread the whipped topping over the top of the cake. Then I cut the cake slices into triangles for the "full effect" of making it look like a candy corn. The kids thought it was a hoot!
