Costumes

I should've posted this yesterday, but yesterday evening was somewhat busy. I made pancakes for my dinner group. And my first ever batch of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. Now those were a grand success! Here's the very simple recipe:

1 big can of pumpkin (the size that makes 2 pumpkin pies)
2 boxes of spice cake mix
1 bag of chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix the pumpkin and the spice cake mix together in a large bowl until consistency is something like cake batter. Add the chocolate chips. Spoon whatever size you wish onto a pre-sprayed cookie sheet. Bake for approximately 20 minutes. (I had to bake mine for about 24 minutes, but I think the time depends on your oven.) Let cookies cool, then enjoy!

They're way yummy all warm and squishy straight out of the oven. Oh, and this makes quite a few cookies, but it's super easy to half the recipe.

On to the thing I really wanted to post about. Halloween costumes. Yesterday, I saw quite a few creative costumes on campus, so I thought I'd share. Too bad I don't have pictures.

• Magnum P.I.
• The Joker
• Moses
• Various colors of Power Rangers (Black, white, pink and blue. The Pink Ranger and the Blue Ranger were having a battle when I saw them. Most amusing.)
  
• Marty McFly (one of my coworkers, Jeff)
  
• a CEO (another of my coworkers, Kristina)
  
• Harry Potter (Along with various other generic Hogwarts students)
• Scooby-Doo (This one I saw in the morning. He was sitting on a bench and had a leash attached to a nearby pole. Classic!)
• a blue M&M
• a bee
• a Jedi Knight (A girl one!)
• a scarecrow
• a U of U student
• Patrick the Starfish
• a Newsie (Dang, this guy was cute. Yummy!)
• one of the 3 Musketeers (I wonder where the other 2 were?)
• a Scotsman wearing a kilt and, I kid you not, playing the bagpipes!
• 2 bunches of grapes (my roommates)
• a flapper
• various princesses, witches, etc. You know, traditional Halloween costumes.
  

Some of these were very creative and well-done. Others were not so much. Anyhoo, I enjoyed my costume spotting. And no, I did not dress up as anything. I am a party pooper.