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Hope you had a wonderful weekend;
it was a very fall themed one for me & the boy.

Fact: I am afraid of scary things.
Movies, haunted houses, haunted hay rides, spiders, bugs.
Oh, & big things in water;
not sure where that one came from.
whales, sharks, fish.
Yeah, no thanks.

My first haunted house experience was when I was about 7 years old.

It went something like this…

My uncle buys our tickets; we walk to the front entrance;
I hear someone scream;
I turn around & start running.
Uncle gets money back & we go get ice cream instead.

My most recent experience was a year ago…

My college friends  & I go to a haunted hay ride/house.
I spent about 97% of the time looking at the insides of my hands
while simultaneously speed walking away from the
9 foot tall clown that kept repeating my name.

Note to self: do not let your friends call you by your real name, at any point.
Scary tall things will remember it.

So as Corey is driving me to my “surprise “ date night;
I start to question him in the car when he tells me to cover my eyes.

Me: “We’re not going to a haunted house are we?”
Corey: “Ooooh ummm,  I forgot you don’t like those…”
Me: “Excuuuuuse me!?”
Corey: “Babe, it will be fine!”
Me: “No, no it won’t. I am a straight up baby.”
[insert 10 minutes of kasey freak out sesh]
Then I am told to open my eyes
& I see an adorable little family waiting
by this field of pumpkins to help us choose one.
[insert sigh of relief]

We spent the next 15 minutes or so picking out the perfect pumpkin!

I had my eye on Gabe’s pumpkin
[not sure who Gabe is]
I thought to myself, I could roast & eat that wholeeee thing.
#squashaddict

Nothing wrong with craving those #cleanCarbs!

We picked the most perfect pumpkin!
probably weighing in around 40 lbs;
which of course Corey offered to carry to make up for the
[10 minute Kasey freak out sesh]

Can you tell he was excited?
cute babe, cute.

After going out to dinner
[I had a nice #plantPOWER salad]
We put on the biggest sweatpants we could find
& got super comfy to carve our pumpkins!

I’m not going to lie; my metabolism was on fire & I was still hungry,
so I made a snack!

Inspired by the Purely Twins I posted this on Instagram the other night.

so I used what I had on hand & made some #plantPOWER
SWEET CINNAMON TAHINI SAUCE

2 TB tahini (sesame seed butter)
mixed with a few drops of liquid stevia
& a sprinkle of cinnamon!

& put it over roasted butternut squash
& #raw zucchini with some healthy chocolate sauce!

Now, before you ewwww me over the zucchini chocolate combo,
DON’T knock it til you try it!

Zucchini, to me, is a nice simple base to add sweet or savory;
And get those veggies in!

Served over roasted butternut squash
(diced & roasted at 350 for about 25-30 ish minutes)
and the chopped raw zucchini!

Yum! This was my cleantreat & night time powersnack
while Corey did the dirty work of cleaning out the pumpkin.

My job was to toast the PUMPKIN SEEDS!

*Scoop seeds & rinse to clean them
*Dry seeds off with towel
*Put on tray & spray with oil (I used coconut oil)
*Sprinkle with Alkalinizing Himalayan Rock Salt or sea salt!
*Bake at 375 for about 20 minutes or so!
I like mine crispy, so it may have been longer!

Just keep an eye on them so they don’t burn!
Speaking of eyes…
we had all intentions of carving this  adorable little kitten on a pumpkin.

well, Corey got a little saw happy when he was carving…

& our kitten turned into a one eyed pirate cat.

Still totally adorable though
& we were super proud of our first pumpkin together

What is your favorite Night Time POWERsnack?

Have you done any fun fall activities?

Are you afraid of scary things like I am?
[hopefully I’m not the only one!]

Don’t forget to check out my girl Heather’s post!
So many fun things coming up with #PLANTPOWER!