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?