Day's of Halloween...

This month was pretty eventful. We did a few "Halloweeny" things.... Some of the highlights were Cornbelly's.....

Amir with his friend Thomas at Cornbelly's

Deep fried oreo?

Amir climbed up the giant mountain of hay.

Duck racing.

Next was BOO at the ZOO.....

We were vikings. 

Then Amir had his "Hooky Spooky" program at school.

[Amir's "Trick" at his program]

And THEN... We went trick or treating...

And last, we went to a Halloween party. The kids played and even the really little ones got in on the action. Everyone was high on candy....

Mommy smooches...

The "Rubber Egg" Experiment!

Last week, Amir wanted to do an experiment. So we decided on my brother's childhood favorite. The rubber egg! After googling and finding several options we decided to do more than one way. Hardboiled & raw. Which would work better?

We took the eggs and put them in a jar, one each.

Then we added food coloring to see how they would turn out and to keep track of which was which.

Add vinegar all the way to the top

Put the lids on the jars.

Wait THREE days ;)

These are two days in. They get bigger!

Done! Which one turned out better? The raw one. The green is the hardboiled. 

We bounced it and played with it. Right before we went outside to pop it.....

It popped IN my house. Luckily I have ninja reflexes and caught most of it in my hand. 

We will be doing this again & will pop it outside! There will be a video for that I'm sure. :)

Amir's 5th Birthday Party!

Halloween is Near!

So I made Amir a trick or treat bag!! 

This was my first big crochet project and I think I did pretty good on it!

Easy Moist Cupcake Recipe

Chocolate Cupcakes

Ingredients:3 eggs
½ cup oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
¾ cup sour cream
¾ cup plain yogurt
¼ cup milk
Devil’s Food Cake Mix

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake liners. In a large bowl, combine eggs, oil and vanilla (do not over beat the eggs). 
Add sour cream, yogurt and milk and stir well. 
Add cake mix 
Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full. Bake for about 18 minutes, or until an inserted knife comes out clean.