Mother's Day

On Sunday, I hosted (with my sisters and cousin, Bonnie) our annual Mad Hatter Mother's Day Tea Party. My mom normally throws the bash, but she was vacationing in Florida and was getting back the Saturday before...so we decided that us girls (the daughters) would try our hand at it.

Emily and Katie came over early so that we could decorate and put together our salads and other snackies. We all brought some tea and did a little decorating.

Emily had some cute 'home spa' recipes that could be made with common household items. So I had printed out little booklets for each lady to have... We had originally wanted to do a couple of the recipes at the party, but decided that our main activity would end up taking up too much time, so we just handed the booklets out.

Everyone arrived with their funny hats- my Aunt Karen and Gram had the most outrageous hats... I felt a little bad because my aunt had commented that she felt a little overdressed with her crazy hat... but it was honestly just that we (meaning Emily, Katie and I) were so busy trying to make the party fun that we forgot to embellish our hats... And the hat that I found seemed ugly and appropriate when I purchased it (for a whopping $7.95)... but then I came to like it. A lot. Lol. Unfortunately I only have a picture of Eowyn wearing it- the downfall of being the one taking pictures.

Our 'main event' was to paint our own personal tea cups to start using each year for our tea party. I had ordered a few sets of cups/saucers (that are technically cappuccino cups, but I liked them) and Emily had a bunch of paints to use and will be spraying a protective coat over the paint so that we can start using them :)

Everyone seemed to really enjoy our project and it was fun to see the different ideas that each person had for their tea cups. I wish that I had been able to concentrate more on mine, but I just couldn't focus on a good idea...so I was less than impressed with my final product, but it was still super fun!

After our tea party, we had a family BBQ. Basically the men-folk came and were made to man the grill. Lol. My mom had left a grill at the house that I am renting from her, but she had warned me that you basically had to stand on your head and chant some archaic spells or something in order to light it... Lol.

It was nice to see my Uncle Bill (Aunt Karen's husband), grandfather, Joe (mom's hubby) and my Uncle Ben. We don't get to do things as a family very often... We are all at so many different places in our lives right now...

Oh- and I got a LOT of compliments about the potato salad that I made (that I had been worrying about for weeks because I hadn't made one before). :) That made me very happy! Seriously- there was only a little left of the big bowl that I had made. And I saved it for Shayne to try, who said it was potatosalad-riffic! LMAO!