A BQ and a Happy Halloween!

Yesterday my husband ran the Marine Corps Marathon for his 5th time and it turned out to be a great day for him. He finished in 3hrs 18min. which qualified him for Boston. I was tracking him online at the MCM website all morning and was so excited the whole time because I knew he was going to do it! I'm so proud of him.

Despite the fact that he had just ran a marathon my husband took the kids trick or treating last night and they had lots of fun! I started out walking with them but the littlest one was getting cold and we went back to the house. I think hubby was just so happy to have qualified that he didn't mind walking around with them. Oh, he's feeling it today though!

Trick or Treat

The boys really enjoyed trick or treating this year! In the morning they got dressed in their costumes and went trick or treating at the Town Center in our neighborhood. It's great, all of the stores there hand out candy to the kids from 11-1. I wanted to take them to the town center in case it rained later that night. It turns out there were only a few sprinkles and they got to go trick or treating door-to-door later that night. Before they went I was able to quickly get a photo of all 3 them on the couch together.

Charlie wanted to show me how strong he was.
All James cared about were the lollipops.

I couldn't resist putting this little caterpillar costume on Will!

Mummy Dogs

In the spirit of Halloween, which happens to be one of Charlie's favorite holidays, we made Hot Dog Mummies last night. They were easy to make and turned out great!

Hot Dog Mummies: Serves 12

Ingredients:
•1 can (11 oz.) Pillsbury refrigerated bread sticks, 12 large hot dogs, cooking spray, ketchup and/or mustard

Directions:
•Heat oven to 375 degrees. Unroll dough and separate at perforations into 12 bread sticks.
•Cut each bread stick lengthwise and crosswise into 4 pieces for a total of 48 pieces of dough.
•Wrap 4 pieces of dough around each hot dog to resemble “bandages” stretching the dough slightly completely covering the hot dog and a small separation so that the hot dog shows through the dough for a face.
•Place wrapped hot dogs on an ungreased cookie sheets and spray lightly with cooking spray.
•Bake 13 to 17 minutes or until the dough is golden brown and hot dogs are hot. With mustard, draw features on “face.”

Recipe is from Pillsbury.