Starting off the Halloween Season...

Tonight,(the night before Halloween), I made a delicious dinner of enchiladas, rice, and beans. Cohen and I made rice krispie treats for dessert. And for our evening activity we carved pumpkins. It was a lot of fun. Cohen wanted a picture of himself being a bad guy. He wanted Matt's pumpkin to also look like Matt being a bad guy. I stumbled over my pumpkin and came up with a moon and tree. Cohen is so funny, while we were getting the seeds out of his pumpkin we wanted Cohen to try. He said he didn't want to get messy so he put a glove on. 

Yesterday (Oct. 24) we went to a Halloween event held in the Union building on the U campus. It was put on by the school for students to bring their kids. They had games, treats, a small animal petting area, a pony ride, and a magician. I think Cohen had a good time. I know he love riding the pony, he picked the pony he wanted to ride on and named him horsey.

To start off the Halloween Season Cohen and I made Pumpkin, Oatmeal, Walnut, Chocolate Chip Cookies. Cohen really helped through the whole process. It was a lot of fun and the cookies are so good! The best part is when Cohen was eating a cookie and said, "mom, thank you for making me cookies, I really like them." 

INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 cups butter, softened 2 cups packed brown sugar 1 cup white sugar 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 4 cups all-purpose flour

2 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups milk chocolate chips 1 1/2 cups of chopped walnuts

DIRECTIONS:

1.	Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2.	Beat butter, brown sugar, and white sugar together in a bowl until creamy. Add pumpkin, egg, and vanilla extract; beat until smooth.
3.	Mix flour, oats, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl; stir into creamed butter until combined. Fold chocolate chips into batter. Drop 1 to 2 tablespoons batter for each cookie onto a baking sheet.
4.	Bake in the preheated oven until the edges of each cookie are lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes.

31 Weeks and 5 Days...

Well I wanted to get a picture of myself at 30 weeks but I was so busy. So I thought I would just get one at 31 weeks, but this past week again has been so busy so here I am 1 week and 5 days later then I wanted. Oh well. Pregnancy is going good. I am for sure feeling heavier and bigger! This little girl moves around all the time and is constantly stretching out, which feels so weird and a little uncomfortable, but it is fun to feel her move around. We are starting to get really excited to meet her and have her join our crazy little family.

Matt's Phone...

I was going through the pictures on Matt's phone and came across a bunch of pictures I have never seen. So most of the were taken in March or this year. They are all random but so cute that I wanted to share. I will try and describe whats going on in each picture.

At Target shopping.

Cohen's first Jazz game.

Shopping at Target, looking at the Saint Patricks Day stuff. 

Cohen sitting on our friend Troy's motorcycle  This was about a week before I got pregnant. I can't wait to look that way again.

I am not sure what was going on here. Just at home probably before dinner.

Just hanging out at home.

Cohen at Grandma Teresa's house, relaxing.

This was in July, Cohen still in pj's.

This was at the end of September. We got ready for church and forgot that Church was not being held because of the dedication of the Brigham City Temple. So we went to Temple square and had a wonderful time.

Fall Family Photos...

My friend Mildred Harris took these photos for us. I wanted these pictures for our Holiday card. Plus it is always fun to have pictures to look at when the years pass.