Halloween

For Halloween, we went to my sister Annie's house for root beer and donuts. This has been a Taylor family tradition ever since I can remember. Every year we make a HUGE batch of homemade donuts and spend hours rolling, cutting, frying and icing donuts. In the end, we have donuts coming out our ears and spend the next week eating nothing but donuts! By that time, we are so sick of donuts and swear we will never eat another donut for as long as we live...well at least until next year:)

This is my niece Savannah, stirring the witches brew....


This is Ethan, he was a cute little monkey, but wasn't too happy with his costume!

This is Indiana Jaden!

This is my soon to be niece Katya. She is from the Ukraine and doesn't speak a lot of English, so I think she was a little confused.

Katya took this picture of us with our camera. She is quite the photographer!

She loves to take pictures, she was taking pictures of everything, even the inside of Annie's fridge! It was pretty funny!

Eyeballs!

To get into the Halloween spirit, I decided to make eyeball cookies. They turned out great. Thanks Tammie for the recipe!

Recipe:

1 package of oreos-crushed (my favorite is the chocolate filling)

1 package of cream cheese

Mix together, I use a food processor, and roll into balls. Put them in the freezer for about 30 minutes.

1 package of chocolate chips (I used white chocolate)

Melt chips in microwave and let chocolate cool. Dip cookies in chocolate, let harden. (I keep them in the fridge) and enjoy!

The Great Pumpkin

October went so fast! I wanted to put up Halloween decorations but kept putting it off and before I could get them up, Halloween was here.

We didn't want to look like scrooges so the night before Halloween we went to Harmons to grab a pumpkin to carve. This was easier said than done, apparently there were a lot of people who had the same idea as us because the only pumpkins that were left were deformed and couldn't stand up! We got lucky and found a normal standing pumpkin (just don't look at the back:))

On our way back home, Jeremy got the idea that we each carve half of the pumpkin however we wanted, but we had to get the idea in our head now and we had to carve it no matter what the other person did. I thought that it would be fun. This is how it turned out.


This is Jeremy's side....



This is my side....

I think it turned out great!