April Fools!

This was not my most successful April Fool’s Day.
I decided to target my brother, Rick, as my main victim this year.
I had big plans to sabotage his office.
However, I couldn't get in, so that whole thing went out the window.

I knew my dad was meeting Rick at Chili’s for lunch, so I took the kids to go decorate his car.
We put up “Honk, Just Married” on the car, and we were in the middle of adding cans, ribbons, and streamers when the car turned on and started to back up!  I SCREAMED, “NO!!!!  STOP!!!!”  But, the prank was on me, because Rick saw me in the restaurant and was pretending to back up!  Mean guy!

I have been pranking my dad for years, and this year I thought I’d do a nice prank, and secretly pay for his and Rick’s lunch.  But that failed too because they knew I was there.  Bummer.  (The waiter however, thought it was a nice prank!)

Later in the day, I did the usual, coloring on the kids’ faces and switching their beds at nap time.

But my FAVORITE part of the day, was getting to prank the Sister Missionaries!  

We signed up to have them over for dinner, and when they showed up, I had Matt say, “Sorry, my mom’s not doing dinner anymore!  APRIL FOOLS!”

Then, we did cupcakes for dinner (meatloaf with mashed potatoes), suckers (frozen grapes on sticks), and Kool-Aid (Jell-O with a straw).  The Kool-Aid was my favorite—the kids were SOO confused, and Andrew got SO frustrated trying to suck up the drink!

We have had chili for dinner probably 6 times within a month.  The kids were SO SICK of chili, and I told them we were having it for dessert.  Matt said, “Fine!  I’m not going to eat all my dinner so I don’t have to eat the chili for dessert.”  He quickly changed his mind when he realized it was cake!

We had a fun rest of the night with the sisters, and overall, it was a great April Fools day!

 

These little peanut butter sandwiches are supposed to look like ravioli and the jam is supposed to look like marinara sauce.  Not super successful, but the kids thought it was delicious!! 

April Fools!

I know a lot of people don’t like April Fools Day.

I'm not one of those people... I LOVE it!  Growing up, it was my favorite day of the year.

This year was particularly fun!

I made Darin this lunch—but when he opened each package, inside he found a homemade lunch!

For Matt and Lindsay's breakfast, I put a few drops of food coloring in the bottom of the kids’ bowls, then cereal on top.  When I poured the milk over the cereal, the milk turned blue.  The kids thought that was a pretty cool trick.  And Matt, is certain that blue milk tastes better than regular milk.

In the afternoon we went into town to pull a few pranks on my dad at his office.  I taped his phone so when he would answer it, it would just keep ringing.  I taped the bottom of his mouse so it wouldn’t work, left a mysterious piece of cake on his desk, and messed a few other things up.  He’s a good sport!  Love you dad!

When the kids took their naps, I carried Matt to Lindsay’s room (he really is a deep sleeper and stayed asleep), then I toilet papered them in.  ha ha ha-- I LOVE their faces in this picture!!

I also added mustaches to their pictures in the basement.

Last, for “dinner” I told the kids we were going to have “cake.”  

(One was meatloaf and mashed potatoes, the other cheese bread).

Then for “dessert” we had Spaghetti and Meatballs--a carrot cake, with piped white frosting for the noodles, the meatballs are just carved out of cake, the sauce is Danish dessert, and the Parmesan cheese is grated white chocolate.

Happy April Fools Day! 

April Fools!

I know that a lot of people really don’t like April Fool’s Day.

I am NOT one of those people.

I LOVE April Fool’s Day!

I’m getting excited that my kids are getting older to start enjoying the holiday as much as I do.

This year was pretty simple.

The day pretty much consisted of “There’s a spider on your shoulder…..APRIL FOOLS!”

You’d think I’d get sick of 8 hours of those types of jokes, but I LOVED it,  mainly because of the cute giggles that followed.  I never got sick of giving the kids the reaction they were looking for.

Besides the spider joke, I did do two tricks that were kind of fun.

First, when Matthew was napping I drew a mustache (which he is still convinced that I drew whiskers), and since he was still sleeping so soundly, I picked him up and put him in the baby's crib.  I was worried about how he’d react, but he thought it was so funny, and “wished I would do that every time he took a nap.”

And for dinner we made meatloaf cupcakes with mashed potatoes on top. 

Both of the kids loved it!

Hope you had a happy April Fool’s Day!