St Paddy's Day

Hope you all had a great GREEN day.  We had to celebrate ours a day early (at least the dinner part) because Abby had a dance thing on thursday. (future post...stay tuned!)  After searching the web for a while, I found so many fun St Paddy's day crafts, activities, and foods, it was hard to narrow them down.  So I had planned a whole week of things for the girls and I to do, but unfortunately most of them will have to be put away until next year, we just ran out of time, energy,  patience. 

We started out the week with, of course, the rainbow made of fruit loops craft.  The girls had so much fun with the cereal.  Here is Abby's rainbow.  Hannah's is non-existent due to the edibleness of the supplies. 

Then throughout the week we made some fun treats,  Shamrock cookies and rice krispy treats, mint brownies, all in celebration of this great holiday.  We had even more treats planned but again ran out of time, energy, and patience, mostly patience.  We did, however, prepare a meal with the St Paddy's theme in mind.  We invited some friends over and it was a great evening.  Here is what we did.

Instead of just serving green food, like last year (deja vu anyone?), I focused on the holiday as a whole.

I made Cheesy Broccoli Soup.  (Going for the yellow/green effect here.)

Shamrock and gold coin jigglers

A rainbow fruit tray (minus the blue and purple fruits...way too expensive!)

Lastly a "pot of gold" at the end of the rainbow

After dinner we ended up visiting with our friends for awhile (we don't get non-family company very often).  The girls had so much fun playing with their little boy.  They brought out almost every toy we own for him to play with. 

This is what we found in the middle of one of our converstations. 

Hannah ALWAYS gets herself in some strange predicaments. 

Silly Hannah!