It's Party Time!

First a little update. Monday we took Reagan to her 2 month check-up. She was 11 pounds and 23 inches long! She is getting so big! At her one month check-up she was in the 33rd percentile, now she is in the 55th. The doctor said she is perfect, but we knew that already. :) She also had to get her vaccines. :( Daddy was the one to hold her for all those because, as you may remember, I'm not so good with the needles. As soon as she just brought the shots in the room I started getting anxious and . She cried a little with the first shot, but when she got the other two she was screaming. She was not a happy camper. After all that excitement she took a looong nap when we got home. I am not looking forward to future shots.


I LOVE Halloween! Saturday night we are having a Halloween party at the house for the teens and 20 somethings. We had a party last year too. I thought I'd post some pictures of the food we had and a couple of recipes. The recipes I am posting are not my own. I found them on the internet.

Putrid Punch

Baked Monster Eyes

Chicken Salad Sandwiches

(used cookie cutters to cut the bread into halloween shapes.)

Oreo Balls and Spiders

(added stick pretzels to oreo balls to make them into spiders)

Dirt Cake

(decorated with nutter butters, peeps, and candy pumpkins)



Putrid Punch

1 .13oz package lemon lime Kool-Aid

1 cup sugar

8 cups water

1 can frozen orange juice concentrate

4 cups ginger ale

Worm cubes(ice cubes with gummy worms frozen inside)

3 scoops orange sherbet

Freeze worm cubes ahead of time.

Empty the Kool-Aid package into a punch bowl. Add the sugar, then the water, and stir until dissolved. Stir in the orange juice. Just before serving, add the ginger ale and worm cubes and float the scoops of sherbet on top. Before long, the punch will be green and in fested with worms. Serves 14.

Baked Monster Eyes

1 lb. lean ground beef

2 Tbsp. taco seasoning

2 Tbsp. ice water

1/2 cup fiesta blend shredded cheese

1 cup crushed tortilla chips

1 cup sour cream

32 black olive halves

taco sauce

Mix together the ground beef, taco seasoning, and ice water. Press into 32 mini tart (or muffin) tins. Press firmly into th bottome and up the sides of the pans.

Sprinkle the cheese and then the tortilla chips over the bottom and sides of teh beef mixture, gently pressing into the beefe if necessary to hold the mixture on the sides.

Spoon the sour cream into each meat cup. Top with a half olive, sut side up. Fill teh cavity in the olive with the taco sauce.

Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes. Serve hot.

Tips:Make sure you use lean ground beef. Last year I did not and they turned out a little weird because of all the grease. Since it's baking in a mini muffin pan it has no where to run off. I don't really like the taste of olives so I just use the little slices instead of halves. To put the taco sauce in the cavity I used a condiment bottle(the ones with the small tip that you can buy in the kitchen section at any grocery store).

Do you have any good Halloween treat recipes or ideas?