Fun with friends

Once again, its the start of the holidays..and best of all..this year we get to spend them with each other!! =)

We kicked off Halloween with a pumpkin carving party at our neighbors, Tim and Jens, house (its always fun to have friends as neighbors!) I was surrounded by lots of creative people! All the pumpkins turned out GREAT!

Tuckers twin pumpkin:


My goofy frankenstein pumpkin:


All our finished projects:


And whats a pumpkin carving party without roasting pumpkin seeds?


I'm also trying to get creative with desserts, so I tried out a mint chocolate brownie recipe! They didn't last too long..and even "the king of not wanting sweets" aka Tucker, liked them! I think I will be making more when Christmas time comes around!



Then a few days later we walked around Balboa park in San Diego. Met up with two other friends, Sam and Ryan, and walked around a science museum. There, we watched an IMAX movie of the Hubble Space Telescope. If you're ever in town, I DEFINATELY recommend going here and watching it. It will change you're perspective on life forever. It still blows my mind that people can really look at the complexity of our universe and not believe in God. It is WAY too genius to just appear, thats all I have to say.



Later on, Sam and Ryan convinced us to walk around the Balboa Haunted Trail. I'm not one for haunted HOUSES, so I thought maybe the trail would be less of a scare thrill......my theory was VERY much wrong. The trail is a little over a mile long, and lots of little cabin-like huts you go through along the way. There is a point where you actually walk through an abandoned school bus with dummies sitting on it, along with real people dressed up. You don't know who's real and who's not until they're IN YOUR FACE!.....not so fun. Needless to say, I think we both filled our scare meters to last us a lifetime, plus some!