Crescent Roll Weekend
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My Monday post is on Monday.
Halloween was a 3 day affair if you don’t count the party Scary Baby went to two weeks earlier. Who knew that one picture I snapped that evening would be her best Halloween picture?
On Thursday, the darling twins went to a dance at their college and emailed me their winning costume. See if you can guess what they were from the dark, blurry pictures they emailed me…
Their creative friend Jordan came up with the idea for five of them to go as…
Interlocking Tetris pieces
Tetris is a computer game for those who are still scratching their heads. 
They won first prize. So glad they are carrying on the family tradition of award-winning Halloween costumes!
On Friday, Scary Baby went to party #2. She opted for a hobo look complete with self-drawn magic marker beard (washable marker she informed me quickly when I saw her face).
She needed to take a dish to pass – not dessert {gasp}. She picked mummy dogs and cheesy fingers. These were big hits at the party – file this for next year if you need ideas for easy and amusing Halloween party food.
Crescent roll dough makes everything better. Wrapping hot dogs in the dough and cutting string cheese in half was grueling work but someone had to do it.
On Saturday, Scary Baby went for the full blown scary vampire-like costume.
Newsflash: She did have a cape but we didn’t get a picture of the whole outfit. Why? Because when you tell ask your very literal husband to take a picture of his darling daughter on the porch…he takes a picture of her on the porch. As in ONE picture. Nice.
The poor 4th child has so few photos compared to the first three–I hear it’s a natural consequence of birth order.
Sunday, we had a delicious crockpot of chili compliments of Chef PhilBillPaul and I whipped up a very labor intensive dessert.
Okay, so maybe slicing an apple into 8 pieces, wrapping in crescent roll dough, pouring melted butter, sugar and vanilla followed by pouring a can of Mountain Dew® (hello Ann – are you reading this?) all over it and sprinkling with cinnamon took all of 5 minutes but oh baby, were these ever good.
The picture is unbaked but they look pretty much the same baked. Scary Baby said they look like chicken. We all agreed they did not taste like chicken! Find this crazy delicious Apple Dumplings recipe at Pioneer Woman.
And here’s the candy she didn’t want…
So relieved to see that someone was thoughtful enough to give out those 1/2 ounce bags of healthy pretzels to offset all the candy. Whew.
She can’t be related to us but we did say thank you.
Happy November! How was your Halloween weekend?
I made the Apple Dumplings for a party this weekend – they are awesome! Love the girls’ costumes. One of my sons dressed up as a can of Izze but wouldn’t wear any face makeup…they just don’t get into Halloween the way I do!
@mom23boys–Suggestion for your boys next year based on what the teens did with their Tetris costume…they took those creepy clear masks and spray painted them. No face paint and the boys might actually like it!
@Joanne–I think there were probably loads of mummy dogs and stores might have run out of cans of crescent roll dough. I’m sure they’ve restocked by now so get those apple dumplings made for your DH!
@Ann–Yum on the Italian Village bread – better than candy!! Let us know if you make the dumplings – so easy and sooo good!
Sherra I am laughing so hard at this post. We had the SAME menu! Mummy Dogs, monster fingers… I was going to make the dumplings but I ran out of time and had birthday cake for my nephew instead. My DH is waiting for the complete cresent roll meal. I told him I had to recover from this one first! LOL
As I sit drinking my Mt. Dew for breakfast here at school, I’m reading this post and mentally going through the contents of my pantry to see if I have the stuff to make the apple dumplings!! Sounds DELICIOUS!!
I guessed wrong in the twins’ costume…I guessed Rubics Cube. Very cute idea and follow through!
Since we moved to the country, we knew we wouldn’t have any trick or treaters so instead celebrated Halloween at an MC home football game and had IV cheese bread and sauce and pizza for dinner. Woo Hoo!!
Mature adults, aged 60 and 65, spend their Halloween Weekend on the links in Napa all day. For the evening, they sit around with the wine connoisseur at his home in Napa and test various varieties of wine, eat a gourmet meal with wine-drinking friends, sit by the fire outside in the patio and head for bed about 10pm, happy that they get an extra hour in the sack on Sunday. There are no street lights at said home and so all the candy gets tested by the mature adults!!! This mature adult baked 3 dozen fantastic chocolate chip cookies and 2 dozen haystacks which were great with coffee for breakfast!
@Paula–Ooooh I want to be a mature adult!!! Golf, gourmet meal, chocolate chip cookies and extra sleep. Please Lord, let me get to that mature adult season of life. Thanks for sharing – I’m laughing remembering the teenager season of your life when I visited you so many years ago. You lived through it and can laugh about it now, right?!!!!