Sophie’s new year resolution was to “celebrate more”…..
So to be a good mama I kicked it up a notch this year for St. Patrick’s Day!
We had fun being festive with little special touches throughout the day.
Glad I had our fun “party plates” as sophie calls them… Solo Cup has these cute green plastic plates and cups this time of year.. and we loved them!
1. less dishes 2. festive and fun!
Have a look at our day!
ps. Pinterest made me do it.
It all started with Green muffins!
( pack of blueberry muffins and some green food coloring. boom. cool mom.)
Lunch is served!
I had fun making little leprechaun and rainbow lunches!
The face is a tortilla quesadilla cut out with a cookie cutter and marked with my edible marker (got a kit from Michael’s a while back.)
The hat is a green apple.. with a white sprinkle.
Shredded Cheese for the hair and beard.
Skittles for the rainbow and bananas for the clouds.
Officially awesome. (or so I’m told by a 4 and 2 yr old. I trust their opinions.)
CRAFT TIME! We filled up our Solo Cups with
fruit loops and grabbed some scrap yarn to make up some
cute rainbow accessories for the day!
Sophie was rockin her look for a while. Sienna decided it was snack time.
Dinner with Friends!
We had some friends over for dinner. I love fruit. Love love it.
I washed up a bunch of fresh fruit and my friend kate was my ‘food stylist’
and helped me make a rainbow for the girls!
We devoured it while we waited for dinner to be ready. ;)
DINNER- I made beer bread and dip with carrots to snack on while we hung out.
I’m not really a beer fan but love beer bread! I tried this Beer Bread Recipe.
I usually use the tastefully simple box but this was pretty good!
I attempted for the first time to make Corned Beef and Cabbage. I found a great site that showed how to bake or boil. I decided to bake! It was delish! Will be making again for sure.
DESSERT- Like I said before… I tried to make the brownies healthier by
adding some mint oreos.. peppermint frosting..and chocolate.
Kinda messy..but worth it.
(put oreos in the brownie batter before baking.)
Adapted this Peppermint Brownie Recipe
O yes….Pinterest adorableness.
Made some cute rainbow cupcakes. My girls LOVED them.
Grabbed up the rainbow sour gummie things from the grocery store aisle
(NOT..in the candy aisle where I looked for forever… just fyi ;)
Just some yummy cupcakes with a puff of a little cloud of icing on them.
We talked about St Patrick and it pretty much got summed up to “You know how daddy teaches kids about Jesus (he’s a youth minister).. well..St. Patrick taught all of Ireland about Jesus!” And something about snakes might have been mentioned.
Hope you had a lovely St. Patrick’s Day!
Hannapat
March 21, 2013 at 6:22 amWow, you did a fab job and it looks like you had fun too. Love the cupcakes.
Paula Parrish
March 21, 2013 at 9:02 amYour St. Patty’s Day celebration looks and sounds like it was fabulous. You are right, I gained mega Mommy point with all of the smiles that you put on the girls faces. Way to GO! ;o)
jenny collier
March 21, 2013 at 3:12 pmLooks like such a fun day. Saving the corned beef recipe — looks delic!
Patty
March 21, 2013 at 4:41 pmThose mint brownies look amazing! I have just started following your blog…as a new wife who needs ideas for cooking and home decor, I just love all your ideas! :)
Patty
March 21, 2013 at 4:43 pmThose mint brownies look amazing! As a new wife/follower of you, I love your ideas for cooking and home decor, great stuff, Natalie! :)