Argh Maties

Booty Call ….Whoo! Whoo! Oh. I mean Booty Re-Call

Shiver me timbers! This just in! Candy company recalls pirate foil-coin wrapped candy just in time for Halloween. Check your maties bags for these and toss them into old Davy Jones’s Locker. And when your little Buccaneers are up in arms and ask, "Blimey! Who be you to take away me booty? Blaggard!" Make it up to them by throwin' in an extra ration of grog and grub for the night :-)

Pumpkin Carving

I love Halloween. Dusty carved the pumpkin this year. As most of you know he wanted a peanut shaped one so he could draw a face from Corpse Bride. He did it perfectly and it was a lot of fun! He is a really good artist :)

Halloween Fun at Work

So my work had everyone dress up for Halloween and I broke out the old Can-O-Soup costume. That costume brings back a lot of FUN memories. I had to put the games and lunch together at work. We played Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin (office style). I had someone draw a huge pumpkin on the white board with a face minus the nose. Then we spun people around and they took a dry erase marker and tried to draw the nose. We also played the HALLOWEEN word scramble where you try to make as many words as you can from the word HALLOWEEN. I also found a really cool Halloween Taboo on the Internet. I printed the cards off on cardstock and we played that one too. It was really fun. I also had things like a Mummy Wrap with toilet paper game and Halloween pictionary game planned but we didn't get to everything.

Comfort Food Recipes

OK. Here is the last recipe link. It's from, of course, Family Fun! I love their site. I am on it all the time. You can create an online recipe box to keep all of your favorites in. Here are some soups and perfect foods for the fall / winter season!

Halloween recipes

OK. I know it is a little late but I wanted to share this link with. It's from Family Fun and it has tons of really cute ideas for foods at Halloween parties.

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/specialfeature/halloween_ms_food/

Pumpkin Patch

Last night Dusty and I went with some friends down to a Apple Farm and Pumpkin Patch for Family Home Evening. It was so much fun. We went on a hayride out to the pumpkin patch and picked pumpkins and took a hayride back. They had a really neat little country store an it was so much fun. The mountains and sunset were absolutely gorgeous and it was SO COLD! Everyone was bundled up but it really felt like it was Halloween. And to me that just makes it feel like the holidays are here already. I LOVE this time of year.

Dusty said he wanted a pumpkin shaped like a peanut or a pear.....I thought he was kidding. The first pumpkin I saw was exactly like a peanut and he ran over to it and picked it up. "Let's get this one." That's what happens when you tell husbands they can have whatever pumpkin they want. Somehow they have a radar for the most retarded one. I didn't care though. It was fun.

Anyway, we actually found one that was more deformed than the one we first saw. So, alas, here is our twisted pumpkin. I think it would make a great witches face or a ghost. Dusty thinks it should be a skull and cross bones. What do you think it would look good as?

Afterwards we went back to our neighbors house and had soup in bread bowls and then ice cream and homemade chocolate spiderwebs on top for dessert while we watched Hocus Pocus. It was so much fun! It still floors me that I am living in Utah sometimes. Local businesses have Family Home Evening specials on Monday nights because so many families around here do FHE. It was so packed last night at hayride because it was Monday night and people were there for FHE.

Take a look at the pics and tell us what you think we should carve or paint our pumpkin as.....