Tea Party Recap

So my tea party was so fun!  I highly recommend having one if you have a couple of girlfriends you'd like to have over for some "girl time".  The girls were good sports and wore their sundresses and brought their teapots and tea cups.  I did a good job on the food - but I have to admit, I made too many different options to sanely pull off.  I had to call Blake in the kitchen to help a lot and he was not happy about that.  He normally helps really good, but this time he griped the whole time.  Oh well.  So, note for next time: only make a doable amount of choices!  It was specifically the 3 different tea sandwiches, they were more time consuming to make than I anticipated.  Here was what my menu ended up being:

-Muffins
-no bake cookies
-spinach pinwheels
-Cucumber Tea Sandwiches
-Almond Chicken Tea Sandwiches
-Pineapple Cream Cheese Tea Sandwiches
-Bacon-wrapped Water Chestnuts appetizers
-Turkey Sausage Breakfast Casserole 
 -fruit plate of apples and bananas

I ended up not making the muffins because I forgot about the spinach pinwheels with the oven time - so I had to choose between them.   The no bake cookies, the spinach pinwheels, and the casserole were my favorite!  The casserole was a hit out of the park.  I'll post a second blog about it after this, all to itself.  The tea sandwiches were okay, the cucumber one was actually the best.  Blake said it was his favorite out of the 3.  I think the pineapple cream cheese one would have been better had I measured out the ingredients, same with the almond chicken ones.  I just eyeballed them because I was trying to get everything done, and so the flavors weren't balanced right.  But, they were good choices if you want to throw your own tea party.  The cucumber ones were pretty darn good, but they don't keep well.  I had a couple leftover and blech.  Soggy.

Here are some pictures!

My teaset from Craigslist :)  I had splenda, sugar, and milk available.

This is the blue teaset Blake got me for my birthday one year :) I begged for it.

I wish I'd gotten a picture of the layout without the stupid foil. Oh well!

The foil was covering the bacon waterchestnuts :)

The girls' teasets

Talking, waiting on my neighbor to come over :) You can see the layout better here.

Everyone is here!

My girls :)