Fab-BOO-lous Halloween times!

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year for two reasons, I love the fall! It not only means pumpkins, candy, goblins, and leaves changing colors, but it also means family time! I love my little family and look forward to all the first Logan will experience!

The second reason is that it means Christmas is not that far away! My other favorite holiday!

I started off the holiday season with some baking! I made these wonderfully moist pumpkin cupcakes with my Honey Lemon Cream Cheese frosting! The recipe had called for maple, but since I did not have any around, I thought I would substitute maple for honey, then I saw the lemon and added some zest and juice!
I had some wonderful friends over for some sugar making cookies! So much fun!

Even Logan joined in on the cookie making extravaganza!

You can't have Halloween without carving a pumpkin!

This year I decided to roast the pumpkin seeds and tried this recipe from Parade ( Parade.com ) section of the Sunday paper:

Dry seeds for 30 min @ 300 F.

Take out and Toss with:

2 Tbsp melted butter

1 1/2 Tbsp brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

pinch of nutmeg.

I had never thought they would really be good to eat, but now I think I will makes these every year.

We had our ward Trunk-or-Treat, and Logan went as a bat! He had so much fun looking at all the other kids in their costumes!

( My little family.)

We decided to head out and hit a couple of homes just to get Logan used to the idea of Halloween, and well to take some pictures! As you can tell, I am having way more fun than he is. Mike was a great sport and humored me in going out for a little while.

The first home we hit up! Look at him eyeing the candy. Thanks Yvonne!

Our little Tiger!

We came home after a couple of minutes, and handed out candy for the rest of the night while we watched TV!