Sunflower, Flamingo and Gnome
I have to say, I’m pretty proud of all the costumes this year. More photos to come:)
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Video: Pumpkin fun: carving + roasting seeds
Pumpkin carving
Yesterday my hubby and I carved pumpkins. So much fun! We both decided to carve out more classic Halloween faces. We have a third pumpkin, and that one will be a Thor carving, if I can figure out a good way to do it:)
I wanted to use the whole pumpkin. We roasted seeds the last time and I actually followed my own suggestion from this blog post from 2013. They didn’t turn out the same way, I think I used a bit too much oil, but they taste awesome, almost tastes like popcorn. And then we googled what to do with the pumpkin guts. Lots of suggestions on making face masks or do pumpkin juice, and neither sounds fun. I saved the guts and stored it in the fridge for now cause I don’t want to waste food, but I really don’t know what to do with it. Do you have any suggestions?
I filmed all of it, so hopefully I can create a video for you guys and if so, it will be up on Wednesday evening. Now it’s time to take little stinky butt out for a walk. Have an awesome day!
Pumpkins
We drove to Edens Farm & Nursery Garden, about 7 minutes away from our apartment. We expected a lot of cute pumpkin stuff, but we had no idea that this place went all in. There were sheep, a hay maze, a haunted house thing, a hot dog stand, a hay ride and lots of pumpkins. A fun thing for families for sure. And the lady who I guess owns it actually remembered us:)
We didn’t find any good big pumpkins, but they had great medium size ones, so we got three plus two small ones. One of the small ones I bought a few weeks ago is kinda dead, so it was nice to find two new ones for decorations in the apartment (I do that every year). After the farm visit, we drove to the shopping area near our home and bought pumpkin carving tools and some stuff for our Halloween costumes. I’m exited for pumpkin caving. I have done it once before, like two-three years ago, and it’s really fun. Maybe we’ll do it tomorrow.
Throwback; Disney World
Last year, Sept 30 – Oct 4, my dream of going to Disney World came true. It meant so much to me and even if it’s a year later, I can still not believe that I, Fanny, a small town girl from Sweden, got to experience this. Might not seem like a big deal to anyone else, but it is to me.
A lot that I was dreaming of as a kid was things that I could see myself be doing or visiting in the future, I just needed to become a grownup:) Big Dreams that I knew could come true if I just believed and worked hard enough. Like, I was dreaming that some day I would get to swim in a pool surrounded by palm trees. Yes, that was a big dream of mine, cause I had friends who went on vacations in other countries who sent me pretty postcards and when they came home they told me about the pools and beaches they had been to, and I was jealous. So I started to picture myself being a grownup who got to spend my life by palm trees…teaching artists like Madonna to dance (yup, I had one of those dreams).
But then some things on my list, like going to Disney World, were things that I really thought would be impossible. Ya, impossible. I don’t think I knew where it was, but I knew it was far away and back then people didn’t travel as we do now. To travel didn’t seem impossible, cause I had relatives in several different countries, but to visit Disney seemed like an expensive dream plus far away. I am so grateful that I got to experience this. I can’t thank my husband enough. This dream may not seem like a big deal to anyone else, especially not to some Americans who gets to visit it several times growing up, some kids even go every year. To them it’s probably just another amusement park. It’s not just another amusement park to me, it was an impossible dream.
Check out Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom.