St. Patrick's Day 2012

I was a little bummed that I had meetings all day on St. Patrick's Day but it only made me stretch a little to still celebrate it for/with the kids.  I was leaving at 6:30 in the morning so I set the table with a green breakfast for them before I left.  I had also left our traditional leprechaun kisses on Nathan and Hyrum (shamrock stickers) and some gold coins in Nathan's leprechaun trap.

During lunch and the down times of my day I finished the "I'm Lucky To Have You" packets that I was doing for each person.  I didn't think it would be too difficult to come up with 10 admiration/love notes for each person (LeRoy, Bret, Levi, Erika, Vivien, Derek, Justin, Nathan, Hyrum) but when that number turned to 90 and I didn't want them to be generic or duplicates it took more thought than I expected.  It was a really great exercise for me to point out what I love about each one of them.

As soon as I got home we all pitched in and got our green dinner ready.  After dinner the kids had fun chasing down their clues to the treasure and eating their licorice rainbows that I had made for their place settings.

With all the sugary spoiling that I do for my kids I found it quite funny that LeRoy snapped a picture of me dishing up my broccoli.