St. Patrick's Day Fun

Ok, I have to keep it real here...

First, let me blame sleep deprivation,

as Miss Molly has been under the weather

and teething like a maniac.

Thus, I totally thought St Patrick's Day

was Wednesday; not Tuesday!

Eeek, mommy fail!!

This is why you will not see us wearing much green.

 So once I realized my mistake,

 I got LUCKY

and pulled out a few fun activities!

 We played this silly game with chocolate coins.

I found these at my grocery store for $1.

The kids were busy up stairs and

I quickly hid them around the front room.

I called them down stairs and said,

"The Lucky Leprechaun was here!

He hid his gold and hoped you wouldn't find it!"

 They caught on quick and started hunting!

The next two rounds they were the Lucky Leprechaun!

As you can see by Adelyn's face,

she enjoyed trying to trick her big brother!

 

We do own many St. Patrick's Day books.

But we do like this one.

This Even Bunting is a classic.

While you are looking this one up,

check out all her books.

She is a very favorite of ours!

For lunch Adam made his delicious, fresh guacamole!

This stuff goes quick around here!

We also had pickles and green grapes

 with our turkey sandwiches,

 and I colored the kids water green.

 The big hit of the day was the

delivery of our new water slide!

It was cool and cloudy and

had absolutely nothing to do with the holiday,

but since it took up most of our afternoon

 I had to include it!

We ended our impromptu

St. Patty's Day celebration

with lime jell-o, whipped cream,

 and green sprinkles.

 

All in all,

sure I messed up and did not get to do

the craft I had planned and

we missed our fun class at the local book store,

BUT really?  My kids did not care!

We had a great day and nobody got pinched...

Well, not too hard anyway!

PS. Here is the pin of the craft

I wanted to do with all the kids!

CUTE, right?

(The watermark says Sassydealz.com, but the link would not work for me)

 

Happy Easter!

Seems like no family can stretch out a holiday like The Feys can...

We had one very long Easter celebration...

First up was an egg hunt with my super fun playgroup...

It started with Mike's first soccer game of the season,

then a mommy vs Addy wrestling match in the car...

mommy won as you can see... she IS in a darling Easter dress!

And then a detour as we went to the wrong park...

a second detour as the gps was off by a block...

but, at last we did make it and the kids were ready! 

Turns out Mike is one heck of an egg hunting coach...

the little kids hunted first and he helped his sister find a ton of eggs...

never touching one himself... that is pretty hard for a four year old boy!

By the time he had his turn, he was full speed!!

and pretty much unstoppable!!

I had to stop him so that everyone got a fair share of eggs...

As you can see, Mike was all about the thrill of the hunt...

he was one happy and proud kid.

Addy? Well, again as you can see...

she would much prefer a naked, shoeless, non- hunt...

 just give her the candy...

Next up was a mid week neighborhood flash light egg hunt!!

Once again... Mike was VERY excited

and had a plan all worked out!

The dads walked the kids around the block

while the mommies hid all the eggs.

Each kid had a flashlight and a glow band. 

Addy started off strong...

but gave up and just opened and ate her eggs!

Mike was a crazy man... he ran everywhere and

I even caught him staring out of his bedroom window

hours later looking for more eggs!!

This hunt was so fun, even I can't wait to do it again next year!

We did two more egg hunts on Saturday with family at the lake house.

I did not get pictures of the hunts, but I promise Adelyn was in a swim suit...

Only afterwards did she get to strip down and color eggs naked!

Mike's coloring skills were much like his hunting skills...

color as many eggs as you can in a short amount of time,

 so you can go back and swim!

Adelyn, however has found her calling!!

She loved the kit I found that lets you really paint the eggs

 and would have painted for hours

if we did not need the table for dinner!

Look!  A smile! 

We painted and dyed six dozen eggs... for 3 kids!

My cousin, Michelle and I remember coloring and hunting

tons and tons of eggs at my grandparents,

so we thought this was a normal amount...

I hear this might be a bit much??

So, I asked my little egg artist to show me her hands....

that's is when she noticed them herself...

I really think here she is thinking...

"Was it worth it? 

Was painting and dying all those eggs worth this mess?"

(ps.. it has been four days and she still has dye up under her nails!)

By Easter morning, we were calling Mike "MR EASTER"...

So Mr. Easter woke up bright and early...

and was scoping out my bedroom window for eggs!

Adelyn was pretty much a pile on the floor, mad at the world!

I am looking forward to the day I can give this kid a cup of coffee!!

Mr. Easter was thrilled with every thing EB left him in his basket...

 even down to the black jelly beans.

He had an "Ooo" and "Aww" for everything!

Addy?  Well, she hated the fact

that EB left her a pez with no candy already loaded.

But, we let her find the first egg...

that was the one and only high for her!

But to Mr. Easter...

it was like Christmas and

a school day all rolled into one!

Nope, this was not a track meet...

just a backyard egg hunt...

with no other competition...

Still he ran full speed... enjoying every egg he found!

This is my very favorite Easter photo...

My two babies and their very different personalities.

Adelyn totally distraught that these eggs are not plastic and have no candy inside.

Mike beaming with joy and asking to hid them all again!

"Really, these eggs don't open?"

"I can't believe you woke me up for this!!"

In case you are wondering...

I am ashamed to say we did not go to church Easter Sunday.

Even more ashamed,

that we have been here for nine months

and have not found a home church.

This is not okay to us. 

We know this is the year to "settle"...

so, we will be finding one very soon!

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We Love Spring!!

My kids are ready for summer!

I caught them trying to "SWIM".

They settled for some water play...

And a pic-nic!

Amazing how happy a blanket, some clothes pins,

 and few plastic chairs made them!

And then they did a little kite flying!

We had three families all flying kites!

Adam and Mike had some kite troubles.

Mike's Buzz kite from last year is MIA,

so he was stuck with a sorta broken kite...

It was a little sad, but

mama got him a cool pirate one for next time!

Happy, happy spring!

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Everything Green Craft Play Date!

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the kids and I hosted

 an 'Everything Green Play Date" 

All the kids wore green and brought green food to share!

 We had green jello, green cupcakes,

honey dew melon, green grapes, and

green apple slices with super yummy fruit dip...

I will post that recipe as soon as I beg my friend for it!

 And would you believe I found these gummy army guys at HEB! 

A whole bag for a buck and they taste like sour apple!

When we have mixed age playgroup

I always try to make the craft easy,

but still process based.

Tearing and gluing paper onto season shapes is perfect.

Our group on this day ranged from 20 months to four years.

Sigh, Mike once again chose not to make the craft,

but just ate, and ate and ate- big surprise!

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