A Great Green Day

St. Patrick's Day came and went so quickly that we almost missed it!

This year the holiday entailed green waffles and green milk for breakfast; 

and green rice, jello, peas, punch for dinner. I kept the pork chops normal color ;)

Let's not forget the green nails:

And green Swig sugar cookies! Yum.

Heidi sent me a picture text of these cute little leprecauns. 

These shirts look familiar - we made these a few years ago and passed them down :

St Patrick's Day & March Birthdays

This year St. Patrick's Day was on a Saturday and we had already celebrated Will's birthday, so it didn't seem to be quite as exciting.  But we did manage to have a heck of a day!  We woke up to gold chocolate coins scattered all through the house!  But, no leprecauns were caught in Will's traps, they are so sneaky!  For breakfast we ate a fruit rainbow with a pot of gold (bananas).  Also Lucky Charms with green milk.  

Then, after doing some chores around the house we went to Grandma's to celebrate the holiday and the March birthdays.  Grandpa, Aunt Heidi, Bode, & Will all have birthdays in March (also Grandpa Judy).  After playing around outside we feasted on burgers and hot dogs with green jello, green pickles, and green grapes.   

 

 

 

Then we ate green lemon cake and green ice cream and opened birthday presents.  Quincy got to be included too because she is the only February birthday.

Grandpa gave the boys some wooden rubber band guns.  Um, thanks?

The week before, we went to Bode's friend party at Kangaroo Zoo in Ogden.  It was awesome!

I love this birthday boy so much!

Half Leprecaun

We love this holiday...it has become more of a big deal since Will was born and has chosen it as one of his favorite holidays. It is probably because his birthday is the very next day.
A couple of days before St. Patrick's Day, Will came and sat very close to me, looking very serious.

He made sure nobody was around before he leaned over to me and said,
"Mom...am I half Leprecaun?"

Me: "Hmmm. What is your favorite color?"
Will: "Green."
Me: "Do you love money?"
Will: "Yes."
Me: "Do you love chocolate gold coins more than anybody I know?"
Will: "Yes."
Me: "Do you play tricks on people all of the time?"
Will: "Yes."
Me: "Were you born really close to St. Patrick's Day?"
Will: "Yes."
Me: "Well then, you must be half-Leprecaun.
Will: "Oh." And then he walked off with the biggest grin ever :)
Love him!

Anyway, St. Patrick's was a fun and busy day! BS and I had decided, last minute, to join his family down in Las Vegas for their Spring break. We were planning on leaving after school. So with the preparations for that and Millie's play at school, I wasn't as prepared for the Big Green Day as I usually am. I went to bed the night before wondering what I was going to make for breakfast to make the day special. I fell asleep before I could finish that thought so I improvised and made green-berry muffins and green milk:


Notice it is still dark outside? Clarks are still getting used to waking up at 6:30 am everyday!

Here are the 3 kids before school:

Quincy had no interest in green muffins and asked for Cheerios with green milk instead:

Here she is before school:

Millie's 5th grade did a play at school on America. She had a small speaking part and did an awesome job! They were singing all of the songs that I remember learning as a 5th grader..."Fifty Nifty United States..."


Then after school we were off and on our way...Las Vegas here we come!!!

St. Patrick's Day

Today was crazy busy! It takes a whole lot for me to say that.
As each year goes by, I'm beginning to realize that we take this holiday a little more serious than others. I think that's why leprecans come to our house at night and turn our milk and toilet water green. They also leave little trails of chocolate coins and mess-up our shoes.
That's what we woke up to. Too bad BS was in St. George to miss it. Then we had green pancakes, and put on our green shirts for the day.

This year I made the kids some shirts. I bought some really cheap green shirts at Old Navy and made them festive using letters and bleach. Millie's was the first one I did, I used way to much bleach on hers. But I think the others turned out well. I had to make Will's go along with his b-day party theme. I crapped out at midnight and left Quincy's alone because it was cute enough by itself.



Anyway, we went to school and I watched Millie perform in her 4th grade play. It was on Utah history, so she got to wear Grandma Judy's pioneer outfit. She did great on her part and sang great too. She even got to square dance with a boy. I'm proud of her efforts and for having such enthusiasm about these things. I went to her other performance at 1:00 too. I also was in charge of teacher appreciation this week so I had to deliver some goods to the teachers.



After school Sambo had scouts and Millie and I had Activity Days (my church calling). I taught them how to sew a button, and using that skill we made "good luck charm" rings. Then we made shamrock soft pretzels.

As those 8 girls were leaving, all of Will's friends were showing up for his party. BS was running behind on his travels home so thank goodness 2 of my girlfriends Julia and Kelly helped me get ready for the party. Details about the party are in the previous post. During the party, Millie had one last play performance at the school. I had to miss that one. Thanks Debbie for taking her!

BS made it home just in time to start the games. As usual, he was extremely helpful and brought lots of fun to the party.

After it ended and the boys were gone and the kids tucked into bed, I could breathe a sigh of relief...but not for long. What a mess to clean up! And then, I knew I needed to start packing and preparing for our weekend in Zions, St. George, and Vegas. I decided to just go to bed and deal with it in the morning. I was exhausted. Whew!

Except....................we woke up to something unexpected and amazing.........

{ To be continued }

We're Going Green

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
The 6 Clarks find any reason to celebrate, and today is no exception. To some, today is not really a big deal, you just wear green and call it good...but here it's a pretty big deal. We love St. Patty's day! To kick it off, last night we had a very green dinner: Green pasta with green alfredo sauce, green salad with green ranch dressing, green jigglers, green breadsticks, green punch, and of course green cake for dessert.



This morning our little ones woke up to find a little leprechaun had left gold chocolate coins in their rooms and in their shoes.


For breakfast we ate green eggs. And of course, we're all wearing green. Will's birthday is tomorrow, but I really think he was supposed to be born a day earlier because his favorite color has always been green, and he loves those chocolate gold coins more than anything. Throughout the year whenever we go to a store/gas station, he searches for the chocolate gold coins. In fact, he loves going with me to Joanne's Craft store because he knows they always have those in the check-out aisle.

Today he has been setting little traps so he can catch a leprechaun, and he has been outside hunting for a clover in our nappy, soggy grass that is still somewhat covered with snow. The best was a few minutes ago he walked out of the bathroom and exclaimed, "Mom, my pee AND poo is green!" He was totally stoked! And THAT is what prompted this post. Hmm, maybe a little too much green food coloring?