Halloween and Pumpkins

Better late than never, right? The weekend before Halloween we carved pumpkins and did a pumpkin experiment.

The kids' pumpkins. The top one is Maddy's. She helped daddy draw it then he carved it. The bottom one is Sean's. He drew his design all by himself and then I carved it.


Our pumpkin experiment included smaller pumpkins. I simply cut off the tops and the kids added dirt and water. We're trying to grow more pumpkins from them.

Inspired by this pin/website.

We also wanted to try this pin but the blog is password protected and the directions on the pin didn't work too well.

Then came Halloween night!! The kids were so excited. I was excited because they wanted to be ghosts. You can get any easier or cheaper than that! A sheet each, white sweatshirts, white face paint, white hair spray and you get this:


Checking out their loot mid trick-or-treating.
Maddy said "I need more candy!" and ran up to the next house.


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Kids Meal: 10-24-11

There wasn't a theme to today's lunch. The Jack-o-lantern sandwich goes with the fact that we're talking about pumpkins/Jack-o-lanterns this week. The roasted sweet potatoes were just a recipe that I really wanted to try.

Surprisingly, the sweet potatoes stole the show!



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Kids Meal: Autumn

We're welcoming autumn today with some autumn food.


Pumpkin dump cake, pumpkin shaped toast with pumpkin butter,
Minestrone soup...and not pictured because I almost forgot it, cranberries.
Another change: the kids decided they wanted pumpkin nutella muffins instead of the pumpkin dump cake for dessert.


More Muffin Tin Monday ideas:


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Weekend Recipe: Pumpkin Nutella Muffins

I'm all for any recipe that includes pumpkin. Mix pumpkin and chocolate...I have to try it! These muffins smelled wonderful while baking and tasted very delicious. However, there could have been more pumpkin flavor for my liking. The recipe can be found here.

What you'll need:

• Pumpkin puree (not pie filling)
• Vegetable oil
• Eggs
• Vanilla
• Brown sugar
• Sugar
• All-purpose flour
• Ground cinnamon
• Ground ginger
• Nutmeg
• Baking powder
• Baking soda
• Salt
• Cocoa powder
• Nutella

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Weekend Recipe: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Hello fall!! Time to start baking with pumpkin again! I love most things pumpkin so when I saw this recipe I knew I had to try it. The cookies had a different texture to them; almost cake-like. Boy were they good! This recipe makes a lot but they were still gone pretty quickly.

What you will need:

• Pumpkin puree
• Egg
• Oil
• Sugar
• Baking powder
• Flour
• Cinnamon
• Salt
• Baking soda
• Milk
• Vanilla
• Chocolate chips

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