My family's got talent!

Last night E and I attended the first ever Layton/Sturm/Meyer family talent show. My cousin Kendra planned this fantastic party with the help from my Grandma. She wanted everyone to arrive with a talent in mind and after the show, we would have drinks and appetizers, and enjoy everyone's company.

The party started out with a lot of laughing and enjoying the almost summer-like weather. Soon the talents started in the living room. My mom and Chuck did this silly lip sync song together, Sarah (Theo's Mom) did an impressive backwards talking, jokes by Morice, and we had some fantastic piano pieces from Theo, Sam (Theo's brother), Kendra and Mike. The finale was a spectacular duo of talent with Kendra singing and playing the guitar and Mike singing and playing the piano. Everyone clapped and clapped at the end of each preformance.

Then, we headed to the backyard for mine and E's talent. We decided to do a cooking demonstration, and show off two of the recipes we had learned in our cooking class. E and I showed everyone how to make a simple, yet divide truffle crostini and fresh homemade bruschetta. We also did a wine pairing the cooking, and talked about each of the steps as we went along.
Once our talent was done and everyone had tried both of the items we had to offer, dinner (or a lot of appetizers) were served. Everyone complimented E and I on "the best talent of the night" but we knew everyone liked ours because they were hungry, in reality, Kendra stole the night.

Everyone got their plates and a drink and we went back outside and enjoyed the rest of the evening together.
P.S.- I got the pond cleaned and working on Friday night after work. On Saturday we were enjoying the sound of the running water the pump died. And pond pumps are not cheap.