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Our Thanksgiving 2017

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Rizzo, J’s moms new puppy. Super cute little guy

Our trip to Chicago for the Thanksgiving weekend was very short. But we had a great time. The food on Thanksgiving Day was actually fantastic. We had a great time with J’s stepdads side of the family. Half of the people that was supposed to come didn’t make it but we were still a lot of people at the house.
We spent most of Friday at J’s grandparents house. Relaxed and nice. We were watching football, ate yummy food and had a good time together. In the evening we went to see our friends, Bob and Sarah. They had a fun game that we played and we laughed a lot. 
On Saturday, we had to drive to the airport around noon and at 6pm we were back in Stamford (the flight was slightly delayed). Thor was with our other neighbor who had picked him up from the first sitter, so he seemed to have had an awesome Thanksgiving weekend as well. 

Overall, this years celebration was very relaxed, we had a great time and we got to spend time with a bunch of people. Sometimes Thanksgivings or Christmas’s can seem rushed and messy, but even if this was one of the shortest trips we’ve done, it felt like we got enough time with everyone. 

J just got home from a work dinner and I’m waiting to watch the VS Fashion Show. It starts at 10 and I’m already super tired, so it’s gonna be a long night, hahah. 

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My first Trick or Treat, and nobody came:(

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I have lived in America for almost 7 years and never experienced Trick or Treat. In our old neighborhood there was lots of kids (we also lived next to a school) and every year they had a list you could sign up on and kids would follow a map to find the doors for Trick or Treat. We never signed up, we either weren’t home or didn’t have time. This year we decided we wanted to be a part of it. We bought candy and grabbed a paper downstairs to hang on the door. We don’t have any Halloween decorations really so I printed out some things to put on the door and then placed our pumpkins and scull candle holders outside the door. Thor had his monster costume on, Jim put his wizard Mickey hat on and I had my Minnie ears and painted a mouse nose.

When it was 6pm, I was so excited! There aren’t really any kids living in this building, there are like 3-5 kids, but I was hoping to at least have one child coming. Nobody came:( So disappointed. I was all worked up about it, and then nothing. We saw several apartments who had pumpkin buckets with candy out in the hallway, and that’s what we ended up doing too after waiting for two hours. 

So now we have a lot of candy at home. It’s gonna be hard to stay away from it. Self-control…no, I don’t have much of that when it comes to candy, haha.

Speaking of our old neighborhood (Battery Park City), it’s horrible what happened yesterday. Thor and I walked there all the time. I’m glad we don’t live there now. My friend told me she had been there 10 minutes before it happened, I’m happy she’s ok. My thoughts goes out to everyone there♥

In Swedish in America

Pumpkin carving

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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!