Easter-Palooza Preparations

Since we didn't have any plans to travel for Easter we decided to host Easter at our house for some friends.  It started out with an idea of inviting a few people and their children over and cooking a ham and then exploded into Easter-palooza.  We have a lot of friends who don't have family in the area and they weren't traveling either so we invited them all.  We ended up with 11 adults 8 children (there were 2 under the age of 1).

Thankfully, the weather was amazing. It was probably the nicest day we've had thus far this year even though it's the end of March and we shouldn't be having 30 degree days consistently.  The children were able to play outside and stay entertained. They all consumed a ridiculous amount of candy and therefore they weren't distracted from their playing to want to go in and out of the house to eat.

I had bought each of the kids an Easter basket and filled them with goodies. I also bought what seemed like a reasonable amount of plastic eggs but after watching the children hunt for eggs it occurred to me that we could have filled half has many. I think Annessa and I filled around 100 eggs for 5 kids.  In my defense, there were supposed to be 6 kids but one was late.

We started our Easter-palooza preparations on Saturday by practicing an egg hunt (to ensure Miss M was prepared for Sunday). We then picked up Aunt Nessa (who was instrumental in the success of Easter-palooza) and came home and started food preparations.

 I don't remember if she's the hunter or the finder here b/c she ended up wanting to do both.

 She realized the eggs weren't empty.

 Keeping a watchful eye on her loot.

Helping Aunt Nessa make cheese puff bags to look like carrots for the easter basekts. 

 Helping Aunt Nessa peel and core apples for the tart.

We worked all day and night to get things prepared for Sunday. All our preparations paid off when we were able to enjoy our guests and the nice weather and not frantically worry about all the things that needed completed Sunday. I am not convinced Aunt Nessa will sign on for the second annual Easter-Palooza due to the amount of work she completed.