St. Patrick's Day 2013

Another St. Patrick's Day has come and gone.  I made sure we celebrated the holiday with decorations even though we were still moving in.  I think the third or fourth night in our house I told Joseph I needed holiday decorations up to make our house feel more homey.  He indulged me and I quickly put up our St. Patrick's Day decor.

I did a few new decorations this year.  Nothing fancy, but it added to the green cheer.

Green tassels were a new addition this year.  I love this idea that I
got from Kristin.  I whipped 5 of them out in 5 minutes!

I also made these shamrocks to hang up.  I originally intended these to be a craft for
play group but they weren't as "kid friendly" as I wanted.  I'll just use the extra
shamrocks to make a garland of some sort for next year.

Rebecah and I hosted a St. Patrick's Day play group at our house.  It was a lot of fun and this
was the craft we made.  I love making crafts with my kids because it is fun to see what they
come up with.  Kimball always tries to make his look like mine, but I added the hair and eyebrows
a few days later when I decided the face needed something more.
Leprechaun faces were super easy for the kids to make.

 With St. Patrick's Day on a Sunday, it was a littler harder to find green for everyone to wear.  There isn't a lot of green in our Sunday wardrobes.  Kimball and Joseph managed to get green in their ties.  Rebecah had green in a flower clip and I didn't get green at all.

Kimball's festive tie.  I actually bought this tie for "dress up" at Target off the $1 aisle.
Joseph re-tied the tie so it fit Kimball in length and he was able to wear it for church.

Our green table decorations...cups, shamrocks and table cloth.

Our St. Patrick's Day feast.  Kimball wanted to take a picture.  It turned out pretty well.

Another feasting picture.  We had corned beef, Irish soda bread, kale and oranges.

We departed from our traditional green coconut cake this year.  Kimball wanted a white cake so
I dressed it up by turning it into a jello-poke cake.  I don't care for lime Jello so I discovered
that Jolly Rancher has a gelatin line so we had a subtle green apple flavor running through
the cake.  Joseph really liked it.  It was just fair in my opinion.  It was green though.

Kimball made this hat at preschool and I thought it was super cute.
Maybe a potential craft for a play group next year.