Showing posts with label St Patricks Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St Patricks Day. Show all posts

Monday, March 19, 2012

What a weekend!!!

It is my Monday, WEEKEND UPDATE post :)

It was a great one....I would say I could sum it up in a sentence: Jam Packed, productive and full of family fun; but then what would I blog about? ;). 

So, here is the recap instead: 

Saturday: We celebrated in St. Patty's (or Paddy as some will say it) style.  I started off the day bright and early at 3:30 am when "B" decided to wake up and play with the dog instead of sleep.  

She is my "sleep challenged child".  I decided to take the quiet time once she fell back asleep to get ready for my busy day. 

The leprechauns visited my house.....and left gifts on the table. 


The Fruit Rainbow food assignment was a hit!  


Of course my hubby had to go the extra mile, which means I will need to run an extra mile with all that cookie crust, real cream topping and white chocolate drizzle-yumminess.


It will be worth the run (once I am better enough TO run ;)

Then on to our annual Green Dinner & my nephews birthday!  

Although you can not see it that well, even the rolls were green!  It was an all out green fest...Fun stuff!

There was a scavenger hunt, shamrock maze placemats and we ended with some "Lucky" Bingo

I would have to say overall, the party was a hit!

 Look at these little leprechauns!

Sunday: Thinking I would finally get some downtime, I got dragged out of bed at 8:30 am to go to breakfast.  

I HATE going to breakfast! I feel like I wake up too early, waste money and get so full I just want to go home and take a nap.  

I would far rather eat my toast and banana, drink a cup of coffee, keep the money and call it good.

From there we went on the search for a new vacuum.....I can home with a Dyson. 

Not something I  have ever wanted to spend that kind of money on.  I am a pretty practical, frugal person and a Dyson has always seemed like a buy I just couldn't justify. 

The hubby and the "Coyster" talked me into it, saying they would actually be "Excited to vacuum".  Well it worked...yesterday at least.  My hubby came straight home and  vacuumed EVERY room in the house.  

Now that is a nice change; I am starting to like my purchase after all ;)

How was your weekend?  Any fun St. Patty's day parties?  

Friday, March 16, 2012

Top O' The Day to You & St. Patty's Day Too........

Thanks to Pinterest and my WAY too much time spent on it yesterday.   I was able to find some fun and easy St. Patty's Day games, gifts and more.  I am here to share the wealth St. Patty's style.  I hope you enjoy these great ideas as much as I did.

Great Gift Ideas:
I found this idea on a GREAT blog called: http://bethproudfoot.blogspot.com
Click HERE to find instructions, tutorials and free printables.

This is the perfect Indiana gift.  She is loving to paint these days.  There is rarely a day that goes by that she is not asking...."Mommy, Can I paint?"  She will be stoked.

On to the next one, also an idea from the same blog.

This one is for the "Coyster" he LOVES rainbow Twizzlers.  Well all things junk really

Click HERE to find instructions, tutorials and free printables.

Now if you are feeling like you need a little St. Patty's Day signage or even a printable card for the adult leprechauns in your life.  I found this great printable.

CUTE CUTE:

 I found this on http://handsonhousewife.blogspot.com/2011/02/little-irish.html

My little nephew was born on St. Patrick's Day!  We are going to have our annual GREEN family dinner for him tomorrow.   I have been put in charge of finding some fun games and activities for the kids.

I found my food assignment:

How cute is this!!  I found this on: http://www.thecraftycrow.net/2011/03/st_patricks_day_crafts_round_up.html
 Now on to the FUN & GAMES:

Family Fun Magazine always has super fun ideas.  I had a subscription for many years and stopped taking it when the Coyster got older.  I just forgot to resubscribe for the two girls....so sad.

They have some great ideas for St. Patty's Day; Recipes, games, crafts, free printables all of them relatively easy and all sorts of fun!

Check em' out HERE
Phew...I am feeling so crafty I think I need a nap!  My actual projects are still in my room in a bag ;).  I will post the final product pics along with pictures from our AMAZING green dinner (Green Jell-O included) on Monday!

HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY EVERYONE!!!

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