Christmas 2015

I have been absolutely horrible at taking pictures lately! I'm lucky I got any of Christmas and even then they are pretty much all of Daxton. We have been traveling a lot. For Thanksgiving we went to South Carolina to visit Sam's brother and his wife. Unfortuatly we didnt take very many pictures of that trip either. 

After Sam finished his semester we went to Colorado Springs and then to Utah. We got to spend time with both of our families and the time went way too fast. We loved seeing Daxton open his presents. His favorite by far being the sofa from Grandma and Grandpa and he knew just what to do with it. We took advantage of the snow and went snowboarding and sledding. I added a short clip of us sledding. This is the BEST way to go sledding in my opinion.

Oh, and my family has this little deer that is very friendly and goes around to everyone's house begging for food! It's the funniest thing. Daxton is afraid of dogs but he loved petting the deer!

St. Louis Zoo

The weekend before Dax's birthday we went to St. Louis and took him to the zoo. We realized beforehand that he probably wasn't going to be that into it. But, I still wanted to do something memorable for it. St. Louis zoo is free so it wasn't that big of a deal and Sam and I had fun checking out the animals. The only animals that got reactions from Dax were the penguins and camels! Man he cracks me up! We can't wait to bring him back in a couple years.

Halloween 2015

This is one of my favorite holiday traditions! Every Halloween growing up we would have dinner in a pumpkin and pumpkin roll. Now Sam and I do the same thing. Pumpkin roll is my favorite dessert although it is tied with strawberry cheesecake. Anyways, I will post the recipes. I would have both of these any time of the year!

Dinner in a Pumpkin

- 1 small to medium pumpkin

- 1 onion copped

- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

-1 1/2 to 2 pounds ground beef

- 2 tablespoons brown sugar

- 2 tablespoons soy sauce

-1(4oz.) can slices mushrooms

- 1(10 3/4oz.) can cream of chicken

- 1 1/2 cups cooked rice

- 1(8oz.) can sliced water chestnuts

Cut off the top of the pumpkin and thoroughly clean out the seeds and pulp. Paint a face on the front of the pumpkin with a permanent marker. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large skillet, saute onions in oil until tender. Add meat and brown. Drain drippings from skillet. Add soy sauce, brown sugar, mushrooms and soup. Simmer 10 minutes, stir-ing occasionally. Add cooked rice and water chestnuts. Spoon mixture into the cleaned pumpkin shell, replace pumpkin top and place entire pumpkin, with filling, on a baking sheet. Bake for a hour or until inside meat of the pumpkin is tender. Put pumpkin on a plate. Remove pumpkin lid and serve meat. For your vegetable, score out cooked pumpkin and serve. Serves 6. 

Pumpkin Roll 

(from the back of the Libby's Pumpkin Can paper)

Not the greatest picture but, Happy Halloween from the Solo's and Yoda!