Halloween

Halloween was last night, and to celebrate we had some friends over for dinner on Saturday (Marshall had to work last night).  It was a great time.  I chose another Kraft foods healthy living recipe.  Can you tell I'm partial to their website?  I forgot to take a picture this time since I was busy doing other things, but you can check it out for yourself.  I made bruschetta and cheese stuffed chicken breasts.  They're really easy to make, and look really fancy when their done.  Soooo yummy!  To go with it, I threw together some organic spaghetti noodles, fire roasted tomatoes, some olive oil, fresh chopped basil, and a couple pinches of red pepper flakes.  I wasn't a huge fan of the noodles, but it was alright, and tasted good if eaten with a bite of chicken.  Of course, no Italian inspired dish would be complete without a loaf of mozzarella garlic bread.

We carved pumpkins this year, too.  This is our third Halloween as a married couple (although Marshall was in tech school in Texas for the first one), and our fourth Halloween living together, and we've never carved a pumpkin together before.  Marshall did the carving while I took pictures, since I think pumpkins are disgusting inside and am a baby about getting dirty (ask me again next year when I have a little one I'm chasing after!).  Here's what he carved.

Our friends each carved their own pumpkin also.  Here's Caitlin's:

And Alan's:

Their daughter Scarlet enjoyed the carvings also (in Jillian's high chair, it got a test run!):

And we convinced Marshall he should probably hold a baby before Jillybean gets here.  What a natural!

Our pumpkin carvings were a success.  We lit them up out on the balcony, and they looked very nice!

It was a good night.  Unfortunately, both Marshall and I had to work on Halloween, so we didn't get to pass out candy to the trick or treaters.  I did get home from work right about the middle of the timeframe for it.  Our neighbors were all decked out, and the husband was jumping out of a bush with one of those fake chainsaw things dressed as Mike Meyers and scaring the bejeesus out of the kids.  There was lots of high pitched squealing filtering in the house.  We've only got one Halloween left here in Germany before we move on to our next base, wherever that may be.  We enjoyed our last Halloween with just the two of us, and are excited that next year there will be three of us!