the real st. patrick's day

this year for st. patrick's day we started some new traditions in our home. i'm not sure if we'll keep all of them, but they were fun for at least one year. for instance, i'm not sure we'll keep having lucky charms for breakfast on st. patrick's day. both of my kids just wanted to eat the marshmallows and nothing else.





don't they still look sleepy? we love our kids, but sometimes they just get up too early. maybe they knew we had some fun things planned that day?

this year we decided we were going to try and catch one of those sneaky, little leprachauns. we found the perfect idea on the family fun site for a leprachaun trap and got to work making it. of course this was a huge hit with katelyn. she loves doing any and all kinds of crafts.



then we got to work setting it up with some lucky charms on top. our hope was that the sneaky leprachaun would come during the night and try to get some of those lucky charms, then fall right inside when he stepped on top of the paper.



but...those leprachauns are more skilled than we realized. somehow he ate all of the lucky charms, but he didn't fall in!



he even left a big mess for us and some green footprints all around the room.



ah well, maybe next year. one of my favorite traditions of st. patrick's day is dressing up in green. i don't know why, but i'm a sucker for "matching". i'm also a sucker for these two cute kiddos sitting by each other so nicely.







later that night we had our friends, the odells, over for our traditional, very fancy, green dinner. we are glad they shared our tradition with us that night!