Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!

The kids were so excited for this day to come. I have to be honest that I wasn't as pumped about it as they were! They kept telling me over and over again that we needed to find the rainbow Saturday morning so we could get the pot of gold and capture the tricky Leprechaun. They mentioned it for days so I suppose they brought out the excitement at about a 50% level in me. My brain was a churning with ideas on how I could create that scene for them and well I gave up and took the easy road!

The kids woke up this morning searching through all their clothes for the perfect green shirt. Thomas was very particular that it had enough green because he kept telling me that he didn't want to get pinched. Brynnley on the other hand just kept yelling out Avery's name to come and get her in her crib(she does that a lot lately and Eric and I laid in bed laughing) she was not too concerned with anything St. Patrick.

I decided to call the wee green man and told him to make a shamrock trail with stickers.....

That would lead the kids to.....

The little green man's hat(that was his idea)!!!! Can you believe he left it behind filled with "gold." The kids were more than thrilled. They searched all through the house trying so hard to find the tricky Leprechaun. Every mess they found they would run down and tell us that the Leprechaun had been in that room. It was pretty entertaining. Avery later told me she was hoping he would have left the real pot of gold. I told her that the real stuff is his lucky treasure and that he never gives it away and leaves tricks instead. Besides he would only leave that pot for the person that gave life to the lovely little ones!! He fooled them!! What a guy! He also left them a box of Lucky Charms to eat in the morning so they would remember him.

Here are the kiddos loving the tricks left behind...

Next on the agenda.....

DINNER.....I didn't want to use food coloring(kinda didn't sound too tasty) so I made a spinach mixture to make a creamy(green) broccoli cheddar potato soup. It turned out sooooo good and the color was a pretty lime green. I want to share it with my fam and friends and will call to explain the process and/or eventually write it all down!

Now if that aint green I don't know what is...

Phase 1

It turned out super creamy and smooth and you didn't taste the spinach at all so I will pretty much be making it this way every time now thanks to St. Patrick's Day!

The hardest part of the meal was washing the green grapes and cutting the bread to place on a green plate. Whew....I was worn out after that!

You better believe when I saw the bread I told them it was shamrock shaped bread. What luck that I bought a loaf in that form.

And then they were off to play with friends. For dessert we went simple with mint chocolate chip ice cream bars! My kind of dessert for today.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all! Hopefully next year you will get a rainbow kids!! Until then I would say we had a day of luck and fun and you can't ask for more than that!!!