Sunday, October 23, 2011

Lazy Sunday

Today it was kinda rainy and a little dreary. Reese and I decided it was a good day to stay in our jammies, carve a pumpkin and cook. You know the kind of day where the smell of something cooking on the stove makes you feal warm all over.

It's no secret to any of you that life has been more then a little crazy this year. It's hard to get real excited about cooking for 1.5 people. Beside the fact that she is done eating in 1.5 seconds or the massive amounts of leftovers that I always end up throwing away because its just to much for the two of us. But I really do love to cook so we decided to start with dessert first:) We made this chocolate chip cookie dough dip...


I forgot to take a picture of it so this one came from the blog where I got the recipe. You can go here if you want to try it out. Make sure you chill it for a bit before you eat it...oh my gosh Reese and I were chowing! Good thing I've been running a ton ha!

After that we put on a pot of Chicken Tortilla Soup and got to work on carving the pumpkin. I had Reese draw the face she wanted so I could trace it on the pumpkin.


I'm all about bang for my buck so you will notice we carved the same pumpkin Reese had already painted a few weeks ago:)

We started with cutting off the top...


and then little miss went to work cleaning out the goop..



We had dinner....Chicken tortilla soup..yummmmo! (You like my "turn the camera sideways attempt" at food photography..haa!)


Then my little mermaid wanted to light up her jack-o-lantern and try on her costume for the 12089365 time!


Just couldn't resist posting this one. She said she was practicing her diving and mermaid swimming moves:)


Oh yeah and one more after it was really dark enough to see our smiling Jack o Lantern.


Hope y'all had a nice relaxing Sunday too!

2 comments:

B.E.A.L. said...

sounds like perfect Sunday and I am sure Reesey P had a blast! I love the pumpkin carving and my absolute fave is the mermaid dive skills pic...love her!

Becca said...

She is so cute as a mermaid! I have to say that cookie dough dip looks YUMMY!!!! I need that recipe!