Cinco De Mayo

For Cinco De Mayo, we started off with Nate's Baseball game, then the village came back to our house for a little party.

I made smoked carnitas, here they are marinating .

I also made bacon wrapped stuffed Jalapenos.  The stuffing had Gouda cheese, sausage and cream cheese along with numerous spices.

The results were yummy, although several folks commented that they looked like little mice.

We had a ton of kids over.  In fact so many it started to make us a little nervous as we were having a hard time tracking all of them,  If we have that many kids again, we'll need a lifeguard.  Otherwise 10 kids seems to be about our max.

I had a surprise for the kids, although we told no adults in advance either.  Before the baseball game, I went and bought a Pinata and filled it with candy and toys.  It was a huge hit (no pun intended,)

Here are the kids lined up to take a shot at Darth Vader.  This Pinata was a little different, instead of handing kids bats to swing and get hurt, or ruin my patio, this kid-friendly pinata had strings and each kid would get a chance to pull a string and if they were lucky, they'd get the string that opened the Pinata.

Brian helped me corral the kids and hold the Pinata.  Afterwards the kids ran around  like Lord of the Flies with the Vader head until it fully disintegrated.