Finger Food Friday: Pizza Party Edition

Hi all. Sorry I'm late.

My niece and nephew came over last Friday for dinner, so FFF is all about the kids this week. My aim was to do something easy and fun. However, due to my lack or organizational skills, it turned out to be hectic and fun. For this post though, I'm just going to focus on the fun and spare you all the details about the hectic. I hate to be reminded that I'm not organized.

Allright. English Muffin Pizzas.

Not a lot of instruction/explaination necessary.

You get a bowl of pizza sauce, tomato sauce, or as I did, leftover spaghetti sauce. You set it on a table along with cheese and pepperoni.

Looks organized, right? Wait till the monkeys get their hands on it. You'll see.

Give each child a toasted english muffin and let them go to town.

Allright, I admit. Things look pretty calm here. Why is it that in my head all I remember is lots of little fingers everywhere, cheese on the floor, and puddles of sauce being splashed around?

Oh that's right. The fun. I'm supposed to be focusing on the fun.

By the way, I didn't wash my hair with vaseline despite what the picture conveys. It was just wet and stringy from the pool.

Also, judging from past FFF pics, you must think that we never dress Roo. That's cuz when it's a million degrees outside, we don't. She sports the trailer trash look for most of summer.

Anyway. Back to the fun.

This is my neice. She's very focused and precise.

(Roo! Stop eating the cheese!)

This is my son.

He's um...... whatever the opposite of focused and precise is. I didn't count on having to explain that the sauce goes on first. He got all crazy and started throwing cheese and pepperonis around like he was at a ticker tape parade.

Here's PG with the pizzas, ready to usher them under the broiler. I like her Vanna White flair.

Now, I know I said earlier that I remember this whole kid cooking thing as being hectic and disorganized, but I'm looking at the pictures and it's like I wasn't even there.

Would a disorganized person do this?

I diagrammed the pizzas on the cookie sheet to know who's was who? What? That is SO not how I usually roll. The real me would've thrown all the pizzas on there and THEN remembered that she didn't know who made what. Then she would've lied to the kids and told them that yes, they did indeed make that exact pizza and to not question what's in front of them.

Body snatchers are the only explanation I have for that display of forward thinking you see above there.

Getting back to it:

I broiled the pizzas on high for about 3-4 minutes while the cutest crew around waited oh so patiently.

Well, the girls anyway. The boys kind of are looking like the may reach through the camera and attack if I don't put some food in front of them soon.

Here you go boys. How does that look?

How bout a close up shot?

That probably only looks good if you're a kid. But, as you can see, this crew enjoyed it.

Allright. I was going to keep going and show you Pizza Party, Round 2: Dessert Pizzas. Now, those were delish for kids and adults alike. However, I'm kind of tired and tomorrow Mr. C and I start a 4 day juice cleansing/detox diet, so I think I'll post round 2 tomorrow. You know, just to torture myself with pictures of all the yummy food I can't eat?

Yay.

You all have a good night!