it is October my favorite month of the year! lots of pumpkin carving, make spooky treats, wearing fun costumes, and it is my birthday month!! the decorations are awesome there is a crisp cool feel in the air. i cant get enough!
C. and i decided to plant a little garden this year. we had tomatoes, peppers, and pumpkins. unfortunately by the first frost this is all we had to show for our trouble. i guess we don't really have the touch yet ....
maybe next year we will do better :)
we are only a week into october and we have wasted no time partaking in the haunted halloween activities!
c. takes pumpkin carving and easter egg dying very seriously. i love that about him.
Madison carving her master "peace" ha ha that was a funny joke you will get it soon......
get it now? master "peace" this is madison's peace sign made of bones.
ruby girl even got her own pumpkin- this was before she though it would be fun to chew it up...
madison and me. i love her.
all of the beautiful pumpkins together. pretty awesome if you ask me.
all of these designs came out of a book called "diggin the decades" so all of the designs are nostalgic things turned haunted. Like Evil PacMan. Carved by drewdrew (c. little bro)
Punk-Ula done by C. - his was the coolest out of all of them it has shadows and shading and all this other fancy pants stuff. he did an awesome job like always!
last but not least is my little pumpkin. if you can not tell she is a marilyn monroe witch. i think she is adorable.
What would a blog post be without something about baking?! madison's older sister is having a birthday this weekend and i was assigned the task of cupcakes. it is going to be a Costume/Halloween party and i wanted to do something fun.
So i decided put a spin on the typical tie-dye cupcake idea- and turn it colors that most people don't really consider incredibly appetizing- 
a spooky combination of yellow, purple, orange and green matched the adorable Halloween cupcake cups.
add some neon green frosting, black sprinkles and a spider! and TU-DUH!! spooky cupcakes. 
this is how ruby gets excited about the spookiest holiday of the year...she wears her glow in the dark pumpkin shirt. she looks adorable! 
i found these cute haunted houses and had to buy them. they are such an awesome idea and easy cause they come with everything that you need. c. made the one above.its pretty spooky and creative.
and i made this one.
they turned out alright considering i was having some major issues with the frosting melting down the walls, but other then that i was happy with it.
we saw bugs, princesses, villains, and everything in between.
on sunday we spent the day riding awesome roller coasters at six flags.
these little treats are very simple! start with some pre-made pie crust. use a rolling pin to roll out the crust.
place sucker sticks and push them gently into the bottom pie crust. Start adding the goods, you can use any pie filling you are cravin, be careful not to over do it on the filling cause it will leak out all over. the stars only held one cherry and some juice.
put the tops on and crimp the edges using a fork. i brushed a little egg white on top and around the seam to help hold them together better.
follow the baking instructions on the pie crust box.
as mentioned the stars were a bit dry, so in an attempt to liven them up i whipped up a simple almond glaze. it consists of about a cup of powdered sugar, a splash or two of milk, and a few teaspoons of almond extract. sorry i don't have exact measurements for this i just make it to taste.
let them cool for a few minutes, then drizzle on the glaze.
delicious!!serve warm with some vanilla ice cream.
for the apple pie bites i used a more open shape, and they worked much better!
repeat all the same steps.... add the filling. crimp the sides. brush with egg white. bake.
the only thing different for the apple is right when they are finished baking brush the tops with a dab of butter and sprinkle with a cinnamon sugar mix. 
they made it all the way to the top. yay! maybe i will go with them next time...but i doubt it.
summer twighlight concert series at galivan. good times.
