Recent happenings... Halloween, fun food & skeet shooting.

This past week/weekend was full of fall fun, including lots of great food, Halloween festivities and a derive up toward the North GA mountains for... What else?!? Skeet shooting, ha!

Our Marketing department at work holds a Halloween pumpkin carving contest each year. And our company's Facebook "fans" vote for their favorite. There's always stiff competition, but it's always a great time! Check out my LSU Jack 'O Lantern I created for this year's competition:

I'm proud of it :-) Although we didn't come in 1st place - a funny pumpkin sporting a mustache and eyebrows did! 


We also bring along snacks/drinks to share with the Marketing Team Members and this year I made a super yummy and very popular "Honey Nut Snack Mix." Delish! Even the left overs were called for by the end of our little Halloween event, ha!

Last Friday I had a great opportunity to support our local Salvation Army by attending their annual breakfast fundraiser. It was a great event and Jeff Foxworthy was the keynote speaker!

His speech was funny {obviously} but also heartwarming and sentimental - all in all, a wonderful start to my Friday!

On Saturday the Hubs had a hankerin' for mimosas, yes, the Hubs sure did. So, he ran out for some fresh OJ and came back with bags {and bags!} of groceries for lunch - which he planned on making. All on his own.

But, first things first, here... The mimosas were served {oh, and, as you may see, college football was turned on}:

Next, the Hubs got to work on his "secret" Saturday lunch for us both. I'll admit - I was worried initially. And maybe even a little aggravated each time he had to ask me where something was {he should know!} or how to do something. However, in the end our meal was amazing and I didn't have to do much at all :-)


The Hub's blue cheese and Parmesan nachos:

His main course - grilled NY strip steaks, corn on the cob {with special "secret" seasonings he added inside the husks; brilliant!} and asparagus:

I was {and still am} SO impressed with his new found culinary skills :-)


We went to a Halloween soiree Saturday night at one of our neighbor's houses, where we dressed up as newlyweds the soon-to-be-divorced Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries.


We slept in late on Sunday and then enjoyed a beautiful drive through part of North Georgia, on our way to go skeet shooting - one of the Hub's favorite activities! It was my first time, but I think I at least looked the part...

The Hubs took it a step further and wore some kind of hunting/skeet shooting vest. Not my favorite:

Finally on to Monday - Halloween! One of my favorite holidays of the year :-) We've developed a tradition in our household where each Halloween we bring up the patio furniture from the back yard to our driveway and set up a bon fire in our old charcoal grill and let the kiddies roast marshmallows for s'mores. It's fun for kids young and old!

This Halloween, I also tried my hand at "carving" our pumpkins this year with the Hub's drill. Check out our masterpieces:

I think they turned out pretty cute and were super simple = an "A plus" in my book :-)



This year, after most of the trick or treaters went to bed, a few of our neighbors congregated at our place for cocktails and an impromptu get together. So fun! And, one couple brought over their sweet pup Lucy to play with our dog, Max - can you tell them apart:

That's Lucy on the left, Max on the right :-) And they're just too cute together!


A fantastic fall weekend - here's to many more!!!