St. Patrick's Day! (2015)

We like to make a big deal of St. Patrick's Day in our house. The kids usually get a cute treat from Jeff & I:

And as usual, the leprechauns came and left little green footprints and (chocolate) gold coins:

The kids love racing around finding the gold and the footprints. :0)

This year, they got an extra surprise with rainbow pancakes!! I put equal amounts of pancake mix into 6 cups and then put Wilton icing colors into each cup and mixed them. (and yes, I used plastic cups, because I am lazy and I didn't want to wash that many dishes.) ;0) 

I made them fairly small because they were getting 6 pancakes each.

I added a little side of whipped cream as a "cloud". :0)

The kids loved them!!

After dinner I had one more St. Patrick's surprise for them. Lime sherbet with ginger ale, topped off with whipped cream and rainbow airhead candy.

Even though we never saw any actual leprechauns, it was another fun St. Patrick's Day!!

Disney on Ice!

Lily & I headed to Disney on Ice: Princesses & Heroes on Sunday. (Jeff & the boys declined to attend) ;0)
It was SO fun!! Lily dressed up as her current favorite princess; Elsa.

She wanted me to take this picture of her stuffing her face with cotton candy and to text it to Jeff, because she said he would crack up at it. LOL!

Finally, the show began, and Mickey & Minnie skated out!

There were lots of stories that were told during the show. Some were just a song or two, but some were almost the entire story. It was really fun to watch!!

Finally, it was the part Lily had been waiting for!! Frozen!!

She loved it!!
Then it was time for the finale where they all came back out again!

Sorry about the picture quality. I couldn't bring in my camera because it has a detachable lens. :0( So these are from my phone.

Lily had so much fun and I loved watching her reaction to the show. :0) It was a good time!

St Patrick's Day Parade (2015)

We were in the St. Patrick's Day Parade this weekend! Jeff's mom, Sheril, is running for re-election for the Wichita school board, so she had a float in the parade. The kids were SO excited about this!! We got our green on and headed down to the Lawrence Dumont Stadium parking lot where the trailer we had decorated the night before was located.

While we waited for the parade to actually start, my niece Madison and I walked around looking at the other people in the parade.

 

 

After awhile, we headed back to our float.

This is my mother-in-law, Sheril:



 

 

We had lots of kids for the floats. Mainly grandchildren, but friends kids too. :0)

 

 

 

Right after noon, the parade started and we finally got to start moving!

 

 

The kids had a lot of fun waving to the crowd and the adults (plus a few older kids) passed out candy, flyers, and buttons.

 

Sheril has done a great job on the school board for the past 4 years, and I know she'll do great for another 4! So if you live in USD 259's district, vote for Sheril Logan on April 7th!!