April Fool's Day pranks/jokes - EASTER fun!! Sushi, ice cream sundaes, empty eggs - FAKE OUT FOOD

April Fool's Day is one of my favorites!! BUT THIS April Fool's Day was the best!!!! This year Easter and April Fool's day were the same day!!!! Oh the possibilities!!!

Started the day with an egg hunt ....and all the eggs were empty. SO FUNNY, well for me it was. They opened every single egg hoping one had something. All empty!

To make it even better, I filled smaller empty eggs inside the larger eggs so it felt and sounded like they had candy in them. NOPE! 

I told them, "I thought you guys just enjoyed finding the eggs. We always have candy in the house so I didn't think it was a big deal I didn't fill them. Plus, the dogs kept messing with them and I thought they would eat the candy and get sick" {{academy award goes to me!}}

Ah, but I did have a REAL egg hunt. We have a small workout room in the garage and I hid all the eggs out there.

The challenge was to get them to go to the garage. First, I asked one of the boys to feed the dogs and even insisted it be now and before breakfast! He went into the garage but didn't see them!!!!! Next, I told my other son it was his turn to take out the trash. He did it and STILL didn't see them. Finally, I told them I had a new orange juice in the garage fridge BUT nope, there was still a tiny bit left and the other one didn't want any. UGH

 I didn't want to make it more obvious that I needed them in the garage so I was just going to let it play out. After breakfast we started talking about this older game for the old Xbox. That Xbox is in the workout area. FINALLY!!!

We had such a good laugh after thinking back during the morning egg hunt with all the empty eggs. Huge success!!!!

I did some of the usual tricks from years past just to see if I could get them again. Here are links to past posts for more ideas.

2017 April Fool's Day Ideas
2015 April Fool's Day Ideas
2014 April Fool's Day Ideas - Dinner
2014 April Fool's Day Ideas - Breakfast and Lunch

Next was dinner and I told them we were having ice cream sundaes for dinner and sushi for dessert.  :P

Dinner:

Ice cream sundaes were pulled pork and mashed potatoes layered with gravy.

I layered the mashed potatoes with an icing tip so it looked decorative.

Topped with a little cherry tomato and red and white striped straw. The straw sold it from a distance when I was walking to the table. The boys loved it!

Dessert:

Sushi was made from Rice Krispies Treats, Fruit Roll-ups, Swedish Fish candy, and sour gummy worms.

I didn't make the Rice Krispies Treats since I wasn't sure I could it without them noticing. The store bought ones are all the same size so it worked so perfect.

I cut one treat into 3 pieces.

Placed a Swedish Fish on top and wrapped with the Fruit Roll-Ups. The Fruit Roll-Ups are sticky so nothing extra is needed.

For the other ones, I cut one treat into two pieces with one larger piece.

I pushed the corners in to make it more round. Then used a large icing tip to remove a circle from the middle.

Then filled with cut sour gummy worms and wrapped the edge with Fruit Roll-Ups.

I love all the colors and so fun to make. I used the left overs in their lunch for school Monday and Tuesday and all the kids ooooh'd and ahhhh'd. I was named best Mom ever. :D

At this point it's hard to fool them but the sundaes were pretty convincing. Next year I should actually do what I say we're having and not switch it up. Lol!

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Spring Floral Arrangement - Outside Topiary - Entryway decorations {{quick and easy}}

So today I was tired of my porch looking so dreary. It looked that way because all my plants were dead and very crispy. 

See!? Very crispy

We keep having a random freeze so I can't plant anything real. Boooo!  I decided to use some floral vines (past photo props) I had and Micheal's has all floral on sale for 60% off right now. Worked out perfect! 

Ooooh color!!!!

This is what the other before - before looked like last summer.

These are all real flowers and plants. So pretty. 

In the meantime while the weather decides if it's spring or winter....

 I purchased the green and purple flowers at Micheal's, had the floral vines and found these large flower decorations I purchased at Hobby Lobby last year. I used some to decorate the front office at the school and these were leftovers. 

I took the floral vine and measure to cut in half

I took out everything and filled with mulch. Why mulch? Because we had it. :) If I had dirt I would've used that. 

Separated with a wire cutter

Filled around the tulips 

The vine filled in the empty space perfect!

It looked great but I really wanted to add these giant flowers

Hot glued dowels to the back

Ta-Da!!!! 

I LOVE the color. 

I have two planters on my front porch and the other one has the blue and orange flowers. It started to rain so I didn't get a good photo of both.

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PRINTABLE Peeps S'Mores Party Favor Tags, You Print - class/teacher gift

PEEP S'MORES!!!!! Yummmmmmmm!!!!!

We made these the last two years for classmates, friends and neighbors {{POST HERE}} and they are always a huge hit!

The tag was seriously bugging me because it was really busy, didn't like the font, too much going on with the bunnies and eggs, and the text color was hard to read...whew! Why didn't I change it last year? Laziness. After posting I would revise it this year I felt that would give me some motivation. 

I changed a few things and it still has a lot of text but looks better. Now you can download/print for FREE!!! Yes, I'm awesome. Stop it some more. :) (jk)

I tried two different size bags and two different tag styles. I'm very indecisive. I *think* we are going with the 4x5 bag and folding tag on the top. Maybe not. Okay, yes we are. ;)

Pictured is the 4x6 bag (top peep) and it seems  a little loose so the graham cracker slides around. The 4x5 bag (bottom peep) keeps everything together better. Both bags can be sealed and purchased at Micheal's Craft store.

I ended up not using the green peep tag because the yellow peep looked a little greenish after printing. :/ If you like it better let me know and I'll post the downloadable.

Click HERE to download 4x6 PEEP S'MORE (fold) tag for FREE

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Click HERE to download 4x6 PEEP S'MORE (single) tag for FREE

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Send the file to a 1hr photo lab for easy printing or print at home

Look! Yesterday I found GREEN peeps!!!

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