Lucky, lucky, lucky!

So we definitely had a wonderful week last week for Spring Break.  The end of our week was topped off with the celebration of St. Patrick's Day! We are still reading the book about him and learning about the holiday and we didn't skip out on any of the fun Saturday either!  We celebrated ALLLLLL day!

The preparations began the night before...

The luck began the next morning when our kids actually slept in...until like 7:30.  That is "in" here on Van Dorn.

I got our usual Saturday morning fare going...

And when the girls came to eat they were greeted like this...

Yes...place-mats!  Those were one of the pre-projects we did the Sunday before...I took them and laminated them.  I.AM.IN.LOVE with the laminating machine.  I even came home telling Man all about it and asking what else could we possible laminate it was so much fun!  Anyway, the girls were super excited too.

And ready to eat this...

And then I had to take a picture so you could laugh with me about how they thought they should eat them...this was after much deliberation between the two of them.

Yep!  Those are skittles on her pancake.  We only go around once and we have decided to have fun!

Bubbles inside??!!  Did Daddy really allow this?  Yes.  Why you may ask?  Because "Meme let's us do it."  Of course.

Even Allye got a bucket with treats...

Then we slid on our green outfits (please forgive me for not taking Allye's picture...she was asleep at this point and in no mood for posing)...

And went to the last place on our eating request list for the week.  McDonalds...and it had to have a play place.  So we went...for that and Shamrock shakes.  They were out.  How does that happen?  You are McDonalds and you had 364 days notice...make that 365...leap year...

But, Thank YOU!  Mama couldn't treat herself to a milkshake but she can have this....

 

Frozen Yogurt!  Love these places!  If you don't have one or have never been to one...YOU.MUST.GO!

This made Olivia very happy!

The cute little high school girl that works there was like, "Ya'll sure are festive."  She might as well have said, "Ya'll sure do have on a lot of green!"  We are going through once and we are having FUN!

Once again I slaved over the stove crock pot all day long so that my family could have traditional Irish fare...and some "ale".

Yes, my kids ate that.  Corned beef, cabbage, skinny garlic mashed potatoes, carrots, and "ale".

Then they got a special surprise!  Rainbow sprinkled marshmallows that were dipped in caramel then white chocolate bark.  This was love people because I wanted to quit when the caramel melted the marshmallow.  These took longer then my whole dinner.  ;)

We drug ourselves to bed for our final installment of Dr. Seuss week with, what else??...

One thing we know for sure...we are lucky to be blessed!