Happy April Fools!

I LOVE all Holidays! ALL of them, they just make life so fun! Growing up my mom always made a big deal of them too. I went to school many a year with green tuna fish on St. Patrick's day or had friends over when pink dinners where served, tons of fun, and I have loved carrying those traditions on with my kids.

Normally on April Fools, I like to have families over and serve a fun wacky style dinner, but well life happens and I didn't get around to planning anything soon enough. So we just had tons of fun with the kids.

They woke up to cereal for breakfast but little did they know we had dropped food coloring in the bottom of the bowl before we poured the cereal in so when the milk was added it amazingly turned blue in their bowls! They were amazed, then I served them a "fried egg" on the side (whip cream with a peach)

Their lunches were way fun too! We made them a delicious sandwich of PB&J, then double stick taped the bag shut! We also did a swap-a-roo with their chip bags and filled them with something other then what the bag was labeled, then double stick taped them shut again! I also added an apple that I had hallowed a whole in and jammed a gummy worm inside! Their "water" was invisible kool-aid (this is a treat cuz our kids ONLY get water in their lunches, they don't do sugar well ;)! I was excited to hear their reactions to it when they got home, it was all a huge hit!

For dinner, I always serve dessert first. This year the dessert was a little different.

The cupcakes were actually meatloaf with mashed potato topping (they turned out supper yummy too) and the "cinnamon roll" was a dinner roll, rolled spirally. I had no idea how to make veggies look like a dessert so I just served a pile of peas on the side of it all.


For "dinner" after our "dessert" I served scrumptious chicken pot pies, complete with peas, carrots, corn and potatoes all in a savory sauce! The sauce was pudding, the potatoes, bananas, the peas, green sixlets, the carrots, cut up starburst, and the corn I melted starburst and rolled them in a tube shape then cut out the kernels.

It was a lot of fun and the kids had a great time with it. It is fun to have and excuse to do something crazy and off the wall every now and then!