Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  We actually celebrated yesterday ~ corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, salad, rice and "Shamrock Shakes" ~ and green rice crispy squares for dessert (Pioneer Woman's recipe with extra marshmallows!!  YUM)  

Reason #349 for not getting a dog ~ Can't lie on the grass and just enjoy the blue sky

Daddy playing with every saw and table he owns!

The kids have been busy working on leprechaun traps ~ last night Bailey set Gregory's out and fixed a bowl of food to lure that tricky fellow

There's a whole covered in a cotton cloud and a wooden box underneath to catch him

Front door

(Turn head to read) ~ Well, our buddy Duncan came again, but once again we didn't have any luck trapping him!

Perfect Saturday Night ~

Yesterday we were all set to go out and eat at Koji's for dinner and then we started talking about roasted marshmallows.  Mmmm, roasted marshmallows!  Change of plans ~ Hey, let's order a pizza and sit outside and eat and roast marshmallows for dessert!  Whoo hoo!  Everyone agreed ~ Daddy and Bailey went to pick up pizza and Gregory and I started a fire, made a salad and set up for our party.

Western Day was Friday ~ I forgot to post Bailey dressed as a cowgirl!

Gregory set up the "buffet" table

He also stacked the wood and got the pit ready

After dinner we broke out the marshmallows!  I have NO IDEA how many the kids ate, but I'm thinking around four or five!  EACH!

We roasted until dark when our fire burned out.  Perfect ending to a perfect day!

Honesty ~

This morning Bailey's teacher sent me an email inviting me to the life skills assembly.  Our little sweet pea won an award for HONESTY!!  Yay, Sweetie!!  

Girls Day (Weekend)!!

This year Daddy was busy building our fence so we couldn't do a family fun activity for Girls Day, but we did squeeze in some fun with a "Mind Blowing" science experiment!  Bailey also got to choose a restaurant for dinner on Saturday and a special dinner for Sunday!  Girls Day ended with a fun treasure hunt Gregory and I set up.  All in all, I think she had a pretty good celebration!

Science experiment

Pretty much came with everything we needed to complete 11 experiments! (we did one)

Pasta Pomodoro Saturday night ~ Bailey's favorite!  AND Cold Stone for dessert.

Aunty Kristin's mochiko chicken (made by mommy) for Sunday dinner

Smile!

Look what I planted!  Actually made two of them to hang on our pergola

Sukiyaki meat for Girls Day

Grape mochi for dessert!  YUM!

Daddy FINISHED!  Well, almost.  One plank is missing ~ Doesn't it look lovely?  Next, I'm putting in a cutting garden! :)

Girls Day Treasure Hunt

The oven??

We had four stops on our hunt

My Sweet pea 

HAPPY GIRLS DAY!

The Trojan Horse

First Saturday of the month, so the kids and Daddy go to the Home Depot kids workshop.  This month the project was a Trojan Horse bank from the soon to be released Peabody and Sherman.