Happy St. Party's Day

Our typical st. Patricks day dinner with all green food did not work out the way I'd hope. We ran out of green food coloring so substituted red. The kids called it leprechaun blood (gross I know but they were pretty amused).

Afterwards we went to a fundraiser for one of Paul's young men. We watched wheelchair basketball. It was very cool and a new way to spend the mini holiday. We had fun! Happy St. Patricks Day!

Happy St. Paddy's Day!

Happy St. Patricks Day!!

Luck of the Irish!

I started a new tradition on St. Patricks day last year... we eat green everything for dinner and the kids help make it. Last years meal was kind of gross weird since it was all naturally green and stuff we were not used to. The pesto sauce for example, not my favorite. So this year I'm taking the advice of others and just added green food coloring to everything. So we had:

Green Chicken (I added green food coloring to the cream of mushroom soup gravy)
Green mashed potatoes
Green garlic bread 
Green Salad
Green Beans

It was pretty yummy! And the kids like it so that's all that matters. We ended up having it the night before St. Patty's since Paul's parents wanted us all to get together on their last night before they leave for their 2nd mission to Bogota, Columbia. They will be gone until Christmas of 2011. We will miss them but have really enjoyed all the time we've had with them in between these two missions.

Happy St. Paddy's Day!

Yesterday was a lot of fun. Lizzie and Linnie have been super excited for it this year (I'm not sure why). We've never done much on St. Patricks Day but this year since the girls are getting older I though it would be fun to do a little something. We all were decked out in our green and made green dinner. Dinner consisted of pesto sauce on bow tie pasta (it was not the yummiest... I'll have to find something better for next year!), green salad, the garlic bread had green butter on it, Green kool aid and watergate salad for desert. I had a bunch of stuff planned but nothing seemed to work out (mostly due to my exhausted state, I'm now at 32 weeks only 7 more to go!). Next year will be better.

Yesterday was also my grandma's 80th birthday so Happy Birthday Grandma! I the best family ever and my grandma is not the exception. Hope you had a great day Grandma, We love you and can't wait to see you in May!