Severed Fingers

So I've had a few requests for the recipe for my cool looking severed fingers. Well here's it is. I used pretzels, sliced almonds, jam (raspberry or strawberry) and a peanut butter chews recipe. Here's the recipe:

• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup dry milk powder
• 1/4 cup honey or corn syrup
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar

Mix all ingredients together and knead thoroughly with hands.

Take a pretzel (I like to used the larger pretzels so they are more like bones) and mold some of the peanut butter mixture around the pretzel to form the finger. Leave a little bit of the pretzel showing at one end for the bone. Make lines around the knuckles, add a sliced almond to the end for a fingernail and jam around the pretzel end as the blood. Pretty simple and very effective. Have fun and Happy Halloween! :)

Pumpkin Painting

We have a cute pumpkin patch just down the road from us, so we decided to take the kids and let them pick their own pumpkins this year. It was quite fun and the kids loved looking at all the pumpkins and finding their favorites. Luckily they chose small ones so it didn't cost us an arm and a leg. We decided to let the kids paint their pumpkins instead of carving them. (Lots less messy and no chance of getting cut).

Karen wanted a scary face and this is how it turned out. I outlined the face and she painted it in. She did a really good job I think.

Michael had fun mixing all the paint together and didn't really do a face, but he had a blast anyway. I went back later and painted a face over what he had done. Neils says it looks like a hobo face, but Michael thinks it's silly which is just what he wanted.

We had a lot of fun. Now to finish their costumes and we'll be ready for Halloween! We also did a little Halloween treat, a practice for our ward Halloween party. They are called severed fingers, they look pretty good eh?


Since I haven't blogged for so long I did three just tonight. So keep going down to see them.

Ute Cheerleader

We love the Utes and have taught our kids to love them too. Michael loves to put on his Ute shirt to be "just like daddy". It's so cute. Karen has sadly grown out of hers and I've been looking for a new one, but when I saw this cheerleader outfit I just couldn't pass it up. It's got a separate shirt and skirt so she can wear just the shirt if she wants too. When I brought it home and showed her she immediately wanted to put it on. She looks so adorable!

Michael saw her and told her she looked like a princess and asked her to dance. They danced around the dining room for several minutes while Michael sang "dancey dance, dancey dance, dancey dance....." It was really cute and had to share.

Hair Dressers

My kids got bored one day and asked if they could do my hair. I said sure. They got the spray bottle and the brush and comb and both started pulling them through my hair and getting me and everything around me wet. I quickly took the spray bottle away and they decided that they now needed clips to go in my hair. They went and got the box of Karen's clips and they proceeded to put every single one of them in my hair. We took pictures to remember the fabulous job they did on my hair, which they were very excited about. Fun eh?