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.