Kelli called me yesterday mid-morning wondering if we would like to do a Cinco de Mayo party for Family Home Evening together. It sounded like fun, so we started planning. We went over to Kelli's and had a mexican dinner and Spanish music playing all night. The kids had plain cheese quesadillas, and the adults and Jaron and Brayden had quesadillas with refried beans, hamburger meat, chicken, and cheese with salsa and sour cream. We played a "hide the maraca" game. All the kids sat on a blanket outside and closed their eyes and counted to 10 twice in Spanish while 2 kids hid maracas. The kids seemed to have fun but there was an awful lot of peekin' going on!
Searching for the maracas
Tori and Lindsay played on the teeter totter instead of looking for the maracas. We finally had them take a turn together hiding the maracas. As soon as the kids stopped counting, Tori led all the kids straight to where they hid them. She obviously didn't get the game, but it was very cute!
The pinata was definitely the highlight of the night. The kids had a blast! Brian rigged up a long bannister railing to the pinata and moved it around while the kids were blindfolded. After all the kids had a turn, we let them each have a turn with no blindfold.
Brayden broke the pinata a little, and we let Jaron have his 2nd turn to finish it off.
The loop holding the pinata to the pole broke, so in the end, Brian pitched the pinata to Jaron to hit.
The kids and their stash from the pinata.
We ended the night with ice-cream and sparklers. Kelli made a yummy topping for the ice cream so it would be like fried ice cream.
We all had a great time, and decided that this is now going to be a new tradition of ours.
Searching for the maracas
Tori and Lindsay played on the teeter totter instead of looking for the maracas. We finally had them take a turn together hiding the maracas. As soon as the kids stopped counting, Tori led all the kids straight to where they hid them. She obviously didn't get the game, but it was very cute!
The pinata was definitely the highlight of the night. The kids had a blast! Brian rigged up a long bannister railing to the pinata and moved it around while the kids were blindfolded. After all the kids had a turn, we let them each have a turn with no blindfold.
Brayden broke the pinata a little, and we let Jaron have his 2nd turn to finish it off.
The loop holding the pinata to the pole broke, so in the end, Brian pitched the pinata to Jaron to hit.
The kids and their stash from the pinata.
We ended the night with ice-cream and sparklers. Kelli made a yummy topping for the ice cream so it would be like fried ice cream.
We all had a great time, and decided that this is now going to be a new tradition of ours. 
2 comments:
what fun! i love the sparklers too!
This looks so fun... I love traditions. Kelli's backyard looks like a park!
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