Friendsgiving

Last night we hosted "Friendsgiving"

Friendsgiving is essentially Thanksgiving with friends :)

Now Austin is the king of Friendsgiving. He's been doing this for years. He was even mentioned in a Deseret News article last week about Friendsgiving.

http://national.deseretnews.com/article/2833/on-thanksgiving-are-friends-the-new-family.html

Even though Austin is a pro, it was my first Friendsgiving and I was really excited about it. Summer and Holly helped me set the table. Looks good girls. 

Austin made our beautiful turkey along with a chocolate toffee pie. Summer made the gravy and helped with the potatoes. Katie and Emma made stuffing, rolls, and apple crisp. Holly made both the chocolate creme and banana creme pies. And I made (and ate) my first sweet potato casserole.

These poor people.

I'm sure they just wanted to dig in and I was like, "Guys let's take a picture before we eat!"

Then I let them eat.

We were all pretty stuffed. Luckily the couch was inches away from the table. Austin was the first one to throw in the towel and fall into a turkey-coma.

Overall it was really fun and super delicious. Thanks you guys for coming, bringing food, and making Friendsgiving awesome!

My favorite comment of the night was by Austin as I was tying bows around the candy corn favors. He said our ideas of Friendsgiving were pretty different. 

"I usually just make a big turkey and everyone comes over and eats a lot while sitting on the couch... and you're wrapping up candy corn to place at everyone's seat..."

This is Halloween, this is Halloween!

Halloween isn't my favorite holiday ever, but this year it was a fun excuse to try some cute recipes from Pinterest. So here's the back story of this Halloween "party" we had a week or so ago. Right before we left for work in the morning, my brother and I decided that when we got home we would watch Hocus Pocus and enjoy some Halloween treats.

Then…something came over me. I became a Pinterest monster. During my lunch break at work, I just went nuts. I looked up all these things I wanted to try and then made a giant shopping list. It was pretty great when the checkout lady said to me, "Looks like you're throwing a big party." My response was pretty much identical to Cameron Diaz in The Holiday.

When I say it was a last minute "party," I mean it. The next day people asked me why they didn't get an invite and I had to embarrassingly admit to them that it was so sudden I didn't really have time to tell anyone about it. Don't worry guys, I'll definitely let you know the next time this happens.

Tried wrapping some mummy hotdogs. 

http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/crescent-mummy-dogs/d52a57d7-ab8a-4a1c-8dae-f9f90d03b912

I thought this was a cute way to throw some fruit into the mix. It's meant to look like candy corn with the yellow (pineapple), orange (mandarin oranges), and white (whipped cream).

http://www.listotic.com/64-non-candy-halloween-snack-ideas/5/

The witches brooms. Mini Reeses and pretzel sticks.

http://kirstycolquhoun.blogspot.com/2011/10/day-137-witches-broomsticks.html

Oreo cake bars. Pretty tasty and way easy. My coworkers enjoyed the leftovers :)

http://www.idigpinterest.com/2014/10/halloween-oreo-cake-bars.html

And what could possibly be my favorite thing I've ever made in my life… THE FRANKENGUAC. 

http://www.kitchenfunwithmy3sons.com/2012/10/11-frankenstein-fun-food-ideas.html

 Ok so there was only five people there, but when they're great people it's still a party.

The best part of the night however was this. It's not Halloween without it.

Sing it Sanderson Sisters.