Puppy Love

I promise this will be the last post about my sister's pups for a while, but they are just SOOOOO cute and I miss them SOOOO much so I just can't help it right now.

Background: Gracie and Khaki were given halloween dog treats from my parents and Allison took pics with them right before they got to eat them.


Khaki: Eyes only on the treat.... practically drooling and about to pounce.


Gracie Goose: Always waiting patiently, so sweet not even caring that the treat is at her feet.

Pups

I consider my sister's dogs to be my dogs as well. Because they are. I will likely feel this way about her kids one day as well, but for now it's just the pups. Right now I am missing them terribly. This is why:

Khaki and Gracie... best friends and best cuddle bugs.

NYC

I am very excited right now! I just found out that a huge Parkinson's walk that I will be going to for work is on my birthday this year... wasn't that excited at first, but then I remembered last year it was literally just a few hours of work in Central Park and then I pretty much got to play the rest of the weekend in NYC. So the plan right now is for Thomas and I to couple it with a NYC trip for my bday!!! AND Thomas has never been to NYC... even more fun! Oh it's only 6 months off, but I'm still excited!!

Musicals.... Amazing food...... Shopping! I can't wait!

Halloweeeeeeeen!

I love Halloween. LOVE IT. So I was pretty pumped about Saturday. I was planning on kind of not going all out this year because I had been on a work trip last week and didn't have much time to pull it together, BUT come Friday night when I got my costume in the mail I knew that was not possible.

So Saturday started off at the craft store... two of them... then Target. After all of that I had everything I needed and I arrived home to the best surprise! Thomas borrowed cornhole from a guy at work and I was so pumped. For some reason all I had wanted to do on Halloween (Saturday) was to play cornhole, drink beer and be super excited about my costume.
Check on all of the above.



The squirrels ate our pumpkins every chance they got....


Here is what the costume started out as.


Here is what it ended up as! I was a firecracker and Thomas was Uncle Sam.
These are the only pics of the night from me since I forgot to charge my camera.




This is my "explosion" fireworks pose that I kept doing all night while leaping in the air...

Oh Happy Day

My wonderful Mother just sent me my annual Halloween cookies from the insanely good Apple Annie's Bakery in Wilmington.

Bad news... I got the package at 10:30 this morning at work and I CANNOT stop eating them.
They are my fave.

It's official... Winter is here

It's SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!

It just started snowing about 4 minutes ago. First snow of the season! It finally made it's way to Boulder and within in 5 minutes of tiny flurries the mountains in front of my office are now like white out. It  won't stick at all, but this is the start and soon it will look like this.....

Colorado weather is so weird. It's not even snowing at our house 3 miles down the road... 

Soup in a Pumpkin

Last month I found a recipe in the Food Network magazine for a butternut squash soup that you served in a mini pumpkin. I have been obsessed with making it ever since and the other night I finally made it with Thomas and Christine as my guinea pigs! 

I can't find the recipe anywhere now of course, but it's pretty much your basic butternut squash soup just served in a festive little pumpkin. 

I started out with 3 pumpkin and Christine and I carved them and pulled out all the gunk....

Then you put a little bit of salt and a little bit of sugar in each one, put the lid back on, and pop it in the oven to roast on 400 for about 30 minutes. 

Some of the ingredients



roasted pumpkins

While that was going on I made the soup and the homemade croutons to go on top of it. 

So the soup was basically a puree of butternut with some spices, water and cream. And then you can top it with croutons, paprika, chili powder, prosciutto, fried onions and they didn't put cheese, but I would say with cheddar cheese it would be great. 

All of the topping selections

The finished product

Christine enjoying our little festive meal

The soup was good, but the bowls were definitely what made it fun and so fallish! 

Can't wait for more Fall things this weekend!!! Pumpkin carving and Halloween marathon here I come.