Halloween was fun for us all. We started early in the day by carving a pumpkin for dinner. Actually, we cooked our dinner in the pumpkin. Sounds gross, doesn't it? We were scared, too, but it turned out okay. It was supposed to be "soup," but it ended up being thicker like a casserole. We put browned hamburger, cooked rice, onions, cream of chicken soup, brown sugar, sour cream and carrots in the pumpkin and baked it for an hour. It had a slight pumpkin flavor to it, but mostly it wasn't very warm after being in the oven for that long and we're not big on onions, so there were a lot to pick around. The carrots were also still hard and crunchy even though I had cooked them in the microwave some before adding them. I think next time we'll use onion flakes or powder and corn instead of carrots. It had a good flavor though. I'm always looking for new traditions to start (ones that are different from the same ones everyone else always does). Maybe this is it. Maybe we can try cooking different things in the pumpkin now that we know kind of what to expect.
While the pumpkin was cooking, Matt and I took K out trick-or-treating around the cul-de-sac and about halfway up the block and back. It took an hour just to go that far. She had to stop and check out everything along the way and inspect all of the decorations. We also had to take pictures of her with her little friends. Princess Leia is really Princess "Tayah" - Kayleigh's friend who we babysit a few days a week. Tara and Garrett went out with some of their friends while Jenny stayed home making treats and handing out candy.
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Looks and sound like a good time was had by all. Did Kayleigh think it was great to say a few words and get a treat?? We live so far down into our community that we do not get trick or treaters - which is just fine.
Yes, she got the routine down in no time. We actually had a lot of kids come around this year.
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