Luck of the Irish

My hubby has been out of town and we missed him as we had our St. Patricks Day Feast (as E would call it)

It was fun....even with a crabby toddler.

I am grateful that I was woken up this morning with my kids searching me to see if I had green on.....and yes I happen to have some on.  =)

St. Patricks Day

At bed time, last night, Little A realizes that we didn't make a Leprechaun trap. And she was SO worried.

I told her that maybe if we didn't try to catch the Leprechaun he may leave us a treat.  She was happy with that answer.

And as I was tucking her in her covers she says 'Oh my goodness!  It smells like a Leprechaun in my room! He must be hiding in here!'

Sure enough, in the morning the girls found some chocolate gold coins in their rooms.

And only 1 trick from the Leprechaun....

They were happy that he did NOT turn our milk green this year (they always have a really hard time drinking green milk).

But he did turn the toilet water green.

After Baby Root beer went to the bathroom in the morning she ran to her sisters and told them to come look.  Little A runs in the bathroom and exclaims 'Oh my! The Leprechaun turned your PEE green!'

I'm so grateful for my kids.  =)

Hope you all had a fun St. Patricks Day!

Baby RB and me decided to make rainbow cupcakes.

She filled the cups and at the end it looked like one of those Spin Art papers.

And here's the end results.

We put several clumps of different colored frosting in the frosting bag and got rainbow frosting too.  Each cupcake had frosting that was different cause the colors never came out the same.

And for the rainbow....

I didn't use the sour airheads that are already rainbow in color.

My kids won't eat them so I tried to make my own.

I used airheads and cut them into strips and then just kind of squished/pushed the colors together.

Maybe Next Year

I totally forgot, but the girls didn't. They came out, just before bedtime, and set up this leprechaun trap.

Since that sneaky guy seems to always find a way to escape, they made it so a heavy object would fall on the door to the trap so he couldn't get out..... we'll see what the outcome is in the morning.

I am grateful for the fun of kids.

No Leprauchan here.

This is about the only picture I took today. In fact, the Leprauchaun almost didn't make an appearance this year. But at least he left a little note to my oldest saying that she would never catch him and he left a couple tricks around the house too. Out of everybody at the breakfast table, only one person had milk that turned green on their cereal. And Ella thought that her pee had magically turned green (but I think it was really the toilet water) and my oldest was so excited that she rushed to the bathroom to see if hers was green too!

And then for dinner we played Irish music while we ate potato soup, and bread and Blarney castle cheese.

I am grateful that I managed not to get pinched......cause it hurts!

How did you talk him into that?

Well, as it turns out, it was his idea to paint all of their nails green the day before St. Patricks day.

I am grateful for the time and memories that were created with the simple act of him painting his daughters nails.....believed me, they all thought that it was the best thing.