April Fool's Day has turned into a full holiday and my kids were very excited to celebrate this year. However, it fell on General Conference this year and with all of the other traditions we do with that (which is also a full holiday in it's own right), I decided to do it a little differently and scale back a little. Austin was worried, but I think they all had a great time.
For breakfast we had our traditional cinnamon rolls, but I printed out sheets of jokes for everyone to share and laugh over while we ate. (Amy stayed with us and it made it that much better!)
Lunch we had "Corn Dogs and Spaghetti and Meatballs" which was simply hot dogs with canned corn on the side, with leftover spaghetti and grapes (after I realized that the grapes looked kind of like meatballs). I think that Austin was really tricked by the grape meatballs at first and I will take that as a win.
For dinner we decided to do a "Mystery Cafe" where we assigned silly names to the food we had for dinner: appetizer, entree, and dessert - then had the kids pick what they wanted from that menu. Some kids came out with otter pops and whipped cream for their appetizer, and were eating corn for dessert but it was a huge hit. A fun mix up from our traditional "April Fools Day" cusine.
But the REAL April Fool's Trick was that this is what our house looked like on April 1 - and then THIS is what it looked like two days later - a massive three day blizzard that was supposed to drop 18" of snow over the course of the storm. It still totally feels like winter, but we keep hoping that Spring is around the corner!
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