Happy St. Patrick's Day!

The sun was just starting to rise when we heard a tap at our door....we hurried to see but no one was there...

We know leprechauns are tricky but we were sure we'd catch one...

Unfortunately, we didn't catch any on Saturday but we were greeted with some little surprises...

Tiny surprises consisting of a little wheelbarrow filled with books, 2 plush green bears, 2 foam swords, a puzzle, and we must not forget the doughnuts the leprechaun left...with green sprinkles and all...

 Not to mention the green coins that lined our walkway all the way to the front door...Fun, Fun on this St. Patrick's Day of ours!

Sailor thought the heck with the foam swords....I'm going right for the goods....

Grey quickly caught on...

The leprechaun brought Miss Sailor new books, so she is set with all new songs to learn.  'Patty cake patty cake' here we come....and a little 'head shoulders knees and toes....knees and toes'

Sister is gonna know all of them in NO TIME...  :)

Love me some 'morning' eyes....The two of them had just gotten out of bed...

Grey decided to hoard his green coins once we got inside...

After we came in the house everyone had breakfast, got showered, and we all put on some GREEN...we had a parade to get to...

Sister liked the green coins

Some shamrock tights and green lizard shoes added just the right touch...

We tipped back a little apple juice and off we went...

My crew was all nestled together waiting for the parade...

Auntie Kathy's favorite holiday is St. Patty's Day....she's ALL IRISH!

We like to be festive up in here.

I have to admit (in case you can't already tell) I get into all these little holidays.  I love to dress my kids up for different occasions and take part in whatever we can.  The 'magic' of it all is so fun.

We were laughing because Kathy just knew everybody in the parade...and she was front and center hoarding all the candy for the kids ;)

We told her she might be the next mayor?!  haha!

A friendly wave from grammy Ann may have gotten us some extra goodies ;)

The parade definitely delivered and we have a whole bag of candy to show for it...

(LOVE Grey in this one)

Finally mama was able to get in a pic...

and the family in green, yes they would be mine, thank you...and I think all three of them are pretty darn special...

After the parade it was HOME for some much needed REST for everyone...

The kids slept pretty good and then it was back outside...

oh these two...

And soon it was time to head over to Aunt Kathy's house for some corned beef and cabbage...It wouldn't be St. Patrick's Day without that for a meal...

 Yayyy for festive holidays

The rest of the night was spent outside relaxing and enjoying eachother's company while the kids ran around.

Dee Dee and Auntie Mims enjoying a cocktail...

And guess what Grey brought over to play with his cousins?

It was a lightsaber war!

and a race car flag to prove it;)

And another good thing about Aunt Kathy's house is that we always get LIVE performances...

Scene 1...

 Here is the theater person...  :)  Mary Rose will be in Fiddler on the Roof this coming weekend!

and these two had the special job of getting us to each scene...and I quote "scene 2 take action"  "scene 3 take action"...they even did the arm movements...(I believe that's what Auntie Mims was doing up above)

Job well done for sure...we were very entertained!

We had a full day of green fun and by the time we got home I was exhausted.  I didn't even have it in me to give the kids a bath...it was more like wipe them each down with a wipe and put them to bed.  That's what went down, but I guess that means we had a great day:)  And both of them slept really good.  Greyson slept until 7:30 and Sailor slept until 7!  (that's good for mine)

Happy St. Patrick's Day we say to you!