We had a pretty low-key Halloween here in Seattle.  Friday we went out and saw a The Heavy play at the Croc which was tons of fun, so last night we stayed in and handed out candy to the trick-or-treaters.

Earlier in the day, Grace sported her new apron courtesy of mumsy and carved a pumpkin and went on a baking spree.  Together we made Halloween Funfetti cupcakes, then she went on to make carrot cupcakes, pumpkin cranberry bread, and bran bread.  I told her she better make something savory, or else she and Elijah would have to consume all the sweets (didn't seem to be a problem); so she made some yummy cheesy onion bread.

Once the carb-coma passes, we'll hopefully have more to report!

Pumpkin Carving - Happy Halloween!

We had a wonderful pumpkin carving party last night! Michael, Jake, Ashley, Nicole, Krikor, Sammi and Mike joined us for an evening of pumpkin carving and old horror movie watching. The photos are with my new camera...we're still learning about it and I'm looking forward to using it in daylight...


Digging in.


Mike gets gross.


Sammi sorts the seeds (she couldn't find a pumpkin before coming...)


A lot of thought went into the designs.


We're making progress here :D





They all turned out terrific!


With the five pumpkins we carved we ended up with about two pounds of pumpkin seeds - Yay! Since Krikor wasn't carving a pumpkin, he did the honor of roasting up some yummy pumpkin seeds. We still have about 6 cups of seeds left to roast, so I think I will try out some other pumpkin seed seasonings...