Halloween 2009

I’ve been meaning to upload these photos for a while now. Might as well post them now before it’s Christmas and nobody cares about Halloween anymore

This Halloween we stayed home – just the two of us. And I have to say it was one of my favorite days ever! The weather was very warm and windy – perfect Halloween weather. We started the day making monkey bread for breakfast – yum! I’ll post the recipe another time.

After breakfast and putzing around a little, we set out to carve the pumpkins we bought the week before. Our friends carve amazing pumpkins every year and this year was no different. We were sent photos of the Severus Snape, Oogie Boogie and Jack Skellington they carved and they blew me away! Turns out they got the patterns for them from Zombie Pumpkins so we perused the site and picked out a couple patterns ourselves. We even have some for next year! So here are ours from this year…Scott chose Boo from Mario:

I chose a black cat as I have an unhealthy obsession!

And here’s our front steps all festive like:

When we were carving pumpkins I was so excited I broke a couple of our little tools. Fortunately I found a bunch for 90% off this week so I stocked up! It was so much fun.

After carving we set up the crock pot to make mulled cider. This is so yummy and a recipe from my mother-in-law. Pretty much you get a gallon of cider, some mulling spices (which now you can find at your grocery store), cinnamon sticks and some slices of orange and lemon and you put that all in a crock pot on low/warm for as long as it takes to warm up and then enjoy for the night! We love hot cider and we love when it is mulled.

We watched Nightmare Before Christmas while we got a few trick or treaters. I had never seen that movie all the way through so it was fun to watch on Halloween