Happy St. Patrick's Day

I do know that this holiday has come and gone! We enjoyed celebrating it as always! We got to enjoy those little green fellows all day long!
When we first woke up our house was in shambles! We still had colored green milk,

and furniture topsy turvy and green in the camodes!

You seen our offering of gold was not accepted because frankly, we chose to eat it this year! OOPS, our bad!
However, this year in our new ward we were able to participate in the ward secret leprechaun project! It was a lot of fun! If you choose to sign up for the Secret Leprechaun your family is given another family and you must leave a trick or a treat at their door three times without being caught! The family who had us were VERY very good! We never caught them but I had it narrowed down to two families! They did a wonderful job and we had so much fun trying to catch them. Where our house is located is very hard to sneak up on us and they went to great lengths to accomplish their mission! I just have to say again, we loved it. Here is what they left for us the second night. A complete shamrock dinner.

The first night we had shamrock popcorn and a card game called blink.
The third night we were given shamrock rice krispies. So cute.
The family we had said they caught us not visually but had guessed us. I'm thinking it is near impossible but when asked how they brought it down to us. Each of the 3 people I asked their answers were contradictory to the other! LOL, I think someone told them but it just goes to show you can't trust anyone! (by nature that is my biggest fault.) My daughter is friendly but she says trust has to be earned. I am trusting full heartedly and then if something happens I pull back and learn. I haven't learned by this stage in life. So, I will always be a trusting fool at first. Life is better for me, living it that way.

Here is our fun fun day! We started off with rainbow waffles! The idea was stolen from here! Dash really loved these! We had so much fun we made rainbow cakes, cupcakes, pancakes and anything else we could color!

Here is Dash in his St. Patty's day outfit!

He is the only one I have a pic of.

Want to see what I did for my Secret Leprechaun family??
My first night we left this! Way cute right?? My printer ran out of ink. So, I had to use markers to create the tag. Long tedious work! Keep the ink in your computer full.
I absolutely love love this idea and it was just chocked full of goodness! Eighteen25 is one of my most favorite blogs! She has offered up the very creative ideas AND has shared the download and printables.
Please click here for the site info.


The second night was really cute also! I had to put it together at church. No picture! sorry but here is what I did!
I got a medium size cardboard box and put shamrock popcorn in it, bought the movie National Treasure and put a bag of "gold" hershey nuggets in it. "A family movie night" meaning FAMILY TIME is the National treasure and the true pot of gold! I thought it was WAY GENIOUS OF ME! ::pats self on back::
For our last and third treat. I was going to leave colored popsicle sticks all over their lawn but I heard that they aren't too much into the trickery of things. But, I don't know! We are still getting to know families in the ward and to serve this family was a TON of FUN!
So, I shamrocked their door! Left them reasons why we thought they were great. It looked cute and the front door looked like this on St. Patty's Day! (so, I wouldn't be caught I did this at 2am!)

I also bought a glass jar and filled it with goodies and left this cute tag on it. Because one of my favorite new found blogs has been this gal! Eighteen25! She offers the idea and the free download tag here! You too will book mark her! I would put money on it!, unless of course you don't like that type of amazing creativeness and cuteness and you would rather just be green with envy! LOL


and we sent them a rainbow in a bag! Which I found the amazing idea from here. Hers is sooo much cuter but I didn't want to spend the $5 measley dollars for the bags! But, next year I will definitely have them and will be able to make the great tags that she offered as a download! See, I couldn't print because our printer is BROKEN! anyway, I love IT IS WHAT IT IS!

Please know that all of those tags are available in printables and I DID NOT come up with those cute ideas! I found them in blogland and you can too! Please click on the great wonderful links and shares by awfully generous people out there! Because of them my children think I am the BOMB shiggitty of all!

Secret Leprechauns

Our ward does a Secret Leprechaun each year and we heard it was a lot of fun! We were given the name of the family we had this past Sunday. You need to at least drop 3 treats or tricks off at your families home without being caught. If you catch the family who leaves their treats you must call the person in charge and tell them who you think it was that had you.

We still have not caught our secret leprechauns but they are being so creative and fun that I am feeling a bit inept! I loved it!

 If you are not caught then your family wins the prize which is a pot of "gold"
So far we have not been caught! But, I won't post what we did until it is over for fear of tipping my hat!

Look how cute this little guy is. Maybe, he's a polynesian leprechaun. I'm most impressed with the leprechaun hat that was made! I could not do that.

Meet my green serpent. I am sure he will be most yummy with the spinach alfredo noodles that were left. What a fun gift. I have a complete St. Patrick's dinner. Perhaps, the family who had us we should invite to share it with us! That would be very fun.

Their first gift that was left was a bag of green popcorn, which was very good and a card game called Blink.

With a note that read, Don't blink or you will miss us. Something like that! Fun Game. I have it narrowed down to 3 families. But, I am basically clueless to has us!

St. Patricks Day 2010

I did manage to make shamrock pancakes and have mint green milk. We ate out for dinner.

This year was pretty much a flop! We had been in our home for about a week. Warrior arrived home from college and the next day was St. Patrick's Day! Please click here, St. Patrick's Day 2008 and please click here, St. Patrick's day 2009
Our house was in a shambles but that was my doing and not because of those pesky Leprechauns.


Everyone did dress in Green, except for Mr. Incredible. He thought he could pass because his hazel brown eyes sometimes appear green when he wears certain colors and then who is going to dare PINCH him?... Not me!

We were listed to fly out to Hawaii and arrive back to St. Louis on Monday. When the older two found out they would have to miss school on Monday, they did not want to go!! WHAT THE HECK??? You have got to be kidding me?! Warrior couldn't miss college and Beauty didn't want to miss a day at school. She is just getting into the swing of things and this may thwart previous efforts.
WHATEVER!! I cancelled all flights! Remind me again, why I work for the airlines? Remind me again, why I have such responsible children?

After being very disappointed we tried to salvage the day by going into the city and doing what tourists do. Here is our adventure on St. Patrick's day in St. Louis.
We did the boat tour and we also rode the pod to the top of the arch.

This very old power plant still generates most of the energy for Downtown St. Louis.
I love how the city continues to use very old buildings and not just tear them down and build something new. It's nice to be in a city where there is some history.


So, I didn't pay attention to the captain, but this boat has some significance and weighs some ginormous amount. I took the picture because I love the construction of it and I'm going to blow it up big and put in on my wall!


This is a picture of the bridge. Yeah, I'm going to have to go on the boat ride again because I was NOT listening.


I do know something about these next 3 pics! They liked the boat ride but wouldn't go on it again. I would only do it again, so I could take some better photos. But, we all went as a family and we all had a great time.



The boat ride was over and it was time to go to the top of the arch. WE are in the pod. It seats 5 but with Dash being smaller we could have squeezed him in. Mr. Incredible was afraid he would be claustrophobic so the boys road in one and the girls and I rode in another. They still had to load each pod to capacity. But, at least we were evenly split. At the top of the arch we could get out and take pictures.


AT THE TOP: 653 feet

If you look closely, the black squares are the windows at the top of the arch.

This is the view from one of the windows of the city!

This is the view from the other side, looking out towards Illinois. It's the Casino.


I love the feeling of this picture with Warrior off to the side!

A photo where I'm actually in it! Surprise, surprise!




St. Louis! I think we are going to like you. We sure had a lot of fun sight seeing and we are going to hit the BREWERY! I hear they give out free samples to those who are 21 and older! TOO bad, I'm not old enough to sample! Guess, I'll have to pass on the beverages.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY 2009!

I love to celebrate the holidays with my family and just make memorable moments! This year I sort of dropped the ball! So, I scampered around last minute to still make special moments! Here is what and who came to visit us last year. Click here!

I had fallen asleep on the couch last night and apparently did not wake up when Mr. Incredible "begged" me to go to bed. The Leprechauns did not visit and they did not fill the children's shoes that were placed by the door the night before! DADGUM LEPS!!

However, when I did leave the house those pesky little green midgets did a number on our home! WE had colored toilet water and the house was in shambles.
Here is our offer of gold this year!

But before they left they were sure to leave the children some little treats. I have to say Dash loves his magic cards! He has been playing tricks on us all evening and I have a sneaking suspicion that if I don't keep some gold around this house. Dash could turn into a pesky little leprechaun! There is just something Irish and devilish about his smile! LOL

However the older two look like they have been a bit mischievous today, themselves.

The much coveted LOOT!

Our St. Patricks dinner will consist of Corn beef and cabbage with spam and rice. We have Pistachio cake with Pistachio pudding for Dessert. Our drink will be green punch and to top it off we will have homemade shamrock milkshakes! YUM YUM!

ST. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patricks Day

THE GOLD

A.K.A.= THE BRIBE
Every year for St. Patrick's day the children always put out their shoes. Some years the leprechauns are very generous and some years they are not so nice. They seem to be more kind to us if we put out a pot of gold.





ANTICIPATION
Last year we forgot to leave them gold and they destroyed the house. They painted the dog, colored our toilet water, milk, and destroyed the house. This year we hope that we can bribe them into being good. This will be much appreciated since I am working today and Mr. Incredible has to fly out this morning for Las Vegas! Sweetheart has soccer practice so I don't feel like cleaning up a big mess this year. Please oh please let our gold offering be enough!

The children all had their shoes out waiting for the leprechauns to leave them a treat. They were pleasantly surprised with their goodies left in their shoes. We will have corn beef and cabbage and carrots for dinner and some lime green kool aide.