Yesterday, while Chloe napped, me and Alex and Alyssa read this blog. Not this post...this WHOLE blog. We looked at every single post from the very beginning, almost 300 now. We didn't read all my blah,blah, blah. We just looked at pictures, and read captions, and watched videos. Alyssa read something about me stuffing lots of plastic eggs and told me she KNEW I was the Easter Bunny, and now she had proof. Alex watched a video of him and asked why his voice sounded so young, like Luke's. We laughed and reminisced about old memories, ones I might have forgotten had they not been documented here. It made me very sad that I haven't blogged from the first moment I became a mother. I wish it was all recorded, not for the world, but for us, The Johnsons in Wisconsin. Maybe I will occasionally start posting old pictures and thoughts so that I can try to back peddle. Heaven knows I don't post enough as it is....;)
Along with our blog review yesterday, we killed time by playing a prank on Seth.
Every year April Fool's Day passes and I mean to make a prank dinner for the kids, and forget. This year I remembered, but ended up being on the road all day on April 1st. Missed my chance again. But since Wisconsin is playing an It's Spring...HA HA April Fool's joke on us, we figured we could play along. So here is our late but super fun April Fool's Day Dinner.
In case you ever want to do the same, Family Fun's website has lots of fun recipes.
We started with cupcakes for dinner.
April Fools...those are actually meatloaf topped in pink mashed potatoes.
Then we moved along to meatloaf and mashed potatoes for dessert.
April Fools...that is a cocoa krispie loaf and ice cream with caramel.
I actually took a few step by steps of this one, in case you care.
Mash cocoa krispies slightly, add cut up red and green fruit rolls for peppers and dice up some dried pinapple chunks for onions. I was amazed at how real the onions looked. Mix with marshmallow, or course.
Throw it in to a loaf pan. Then cut a slice, just like you would the real thing.
Alex had the idea to put jello in cups and pretend it was punch. Those weren't ready until this morning so we had them for breakfast. What? you don't feed your kids straight sugar for breakfast?
So much fun! You should have seen my kids giggling as we served daddy meatloaf cupcakes and then meatloaf cake for dessert. He played along beautifully and they were so amused with our funny little prank.
8 comments:
What a fun meal! Fun for the kids, too. Brent always does April Fools jokes at work. I just never quite got into it at home. It's like always in the middle of things like his birthday and Easter and all. Maybe I'll have to start putting more effort into it. He got some funny ones off the Internet this year. His favorite was copying a couple of paperclips on several sheets of paper and putting them back into the paper tray. He said the secretary went crazy trying to figure out where the paper clips were hiding in the copier.
I was going to make that exact same meal! Well, no not the cocoa krispies.. I hadn't seen that before... but the meatloaf cupcakes and the jello drinks and the ice cream. Anyway, we didn't do it.
We tend to not do april fools since it's my birthday but I think I'll do it late next year. Yours look awesome.
I have thought about going back and blogging old picture too. Maybe I will. We could always start new blogs so it wouldn't be all out of order.
I did the jello juice last year, and the kids loved it. This year I mostly forgot it was April fools so didnt get around to anything. I really meant to do something fun, but there I go again...failing as the fun parent. Good intentions dont count in the kids eyes! At least you still got around to it, even if it was late. Good for you. And that meatloaf looks awful by the way...I hope it tasted better!
Julie, I am not much of a prankster either. I don't like to trick people, although the paper clips are funny and harmless. This was fun, too. I think it would be fun for a Freaky Friday themed party too.
Cheryl, between the cloud factory and the wacky meal, we are just on the same page today. I found the fake meatloaf at the last minute and had to add it to the menu. How fun to have an April Fool's b-day. You could have had wacky themed parties every year. Also, I have tried to think about the best way to post old stuff too. I feel sad because I know I couldn't do it justice all these years later, but I could try. I have thought about just doing Flashback Fridays like lots of other bloggers do, especially since I am slacking on my other themes lately.
Heather, I usually skip April Fools Day too. If it hadn't been cold and cruddy I don't think I would have done a make-up April 1, but we were bored. I think the meatloaf looks awesome...it was my favorite part. It just tasted like a chocolate rice krispie treat, a little sweet with the add ins but I thought it made it look cool. I wish I had come up with it myself. There were some other ones that looked super nasty, like a chicken pot pie with candy veggies, fruit chicken, pudding and crust. Yuck, but it looked so realitic so I may try that one next time.
This is so hysterical, I just might have to do it! That's so cool, and I'm sure the kids will always remember it. All we did was put vinegar in Jared's water, but even that made the kids think they were SOOO tricky.
What a cute idea! I totally fell for the dessert for dinner and dinner for dessert at first glance. And how creative to add the extra chunks of color to the "meat loaf". Clever!
I fell for it too. I was thinking that the frosting on the cupcakes looked weird and then I read about it. The crispy treat looks SO much like meatloaf!!
SO FUNNY!!! You should look at a website favfamilyrecipes.blogspot.com and look at deserts. This lady makes a "tv dinner" all out of cupcakes. It's so realistic it's crazy!! I love your idea and I totally thought dessert was meatloaf and mash pot!!!!! You did great!
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