St. Patrick's Day Leprechaun Fun

Oh how I love holidays!

St. Patrick's Day is so much fun too because it is just another magical, fun holiday and the kids have lots of fun with it.

In the past, we've decorated our trap with friends but this year, we thought we would do it for FHE with daddy and so glad we did.  He's so fun and makes it more fun for the kids.

Austin was working hard on his name shamrock.

Cute Rio is so creative so she had a blast decorating our trap.

Even Logan and Blake helped out!

I made some Shamrock cookies for dessert - they turned out super cute I thought.

Having tons of fun together!

This is a blurry pic of Jax and his tantrum at the moment.  He was really upset about the size of Shamrock he was given for his name.  Not sure why to this day however...they all had the same size!

Cutie kids!

And it continued...

He decided it was okay to use and then...

...he was happy once again.

Love this boy so much!

He is the most passionate kid and I love it but it makes it hard for him sometimes.

Eating some yummy cookies and decorating them with green frosting and sprinkles.

Cutie Blake - what a good boy you are.

Delicious!

The next morning, they realized the Leprechaun had come for sure but we didn't catch him, once again!

That sneaky little elf!

Grandma Morris did some fun crafts with the kids one day as well during March so I wanted to make sure I took a pic of their little craft they did.

Top Left - Rio,  Top Right - Austin

Bottom Left - Jax, Bottom Right - Logan

He left us a note however saying,

"nice try, I'm a little too sneaky!"

Their morning was complete with fruit loop rainbows with marshmallow clouds and gold chocolate coins.

These pics are the aftermath of the little guy coming...

He knocked over their decorations getting treats out of the trap.

Rio thought it was so funny that he would be so silly.

And of course....

he peed in the potty and left his footprints and hand prints all over!

I couldn't not post all of these.

Each one is different and unique for each kid and I just love their expressions so much.

Dinner Time was so fun too.

Love this cute family of mine.

Green Kool-Aid for drinks, green rolls with pulled pork, green grapes, broccoli, and green veggie straws.

SO FUN!

We had a great day and had fun together which is the best part!

Ella's bday 2015

 Happy Birthday Ella!

Cannot believe that she is now 12.  It's amazing how quickly time goes.

She is a beautiful, sweet, loving, talented girl and we love her to pieces.

Eating some yummy cake together.

*Logan, Austin, Rio, Halle, Jax and Luke*

Love this family of mine so much.

*Ella, Sky, Gabe, Matt, Zak, Spence, my dad and mom with Blake and Anna*

Had to get a little shot with my Logan who is awesome at saying, "cheese" in pics now.  Love him!

Great birthday week we had...more to come!

Finally...we got to fly kites!

"FINALLY!"

This was the reply from the kids after we got to fly kites this day.

We honestly had SO MUCH FUN!

I had had these kites since last Easter....and actually, it may have been 2 Easters ago.  We just never got around to flying kites but this day was it and it couldn't have been a better day.

Spence helped get Logan's kite going and after it was up, our little Logan kept his kite up for quite a while all on his own.  It was so cute!  He had so much fun.

Austin and Rio with their kites.

Austin was awesome at keeping it up and said, "can I just fly this all day?  I could probably even fly it from my bed tonight or sleep outside."

He was so cute and just loved it!

Jax had a really tricky kite.  It was a rectangle shaped kite and it was so hard to keep up.  Even Spence had to really work at keeping it up.  Jax got really frustrated but he still tried and tried and tried.  Proud of you Jax!

This little friend behind him is their good friend Avery, our next door neighbor.  They've become great buddies already and we hung out with them and their parents for about 4 hours that day.  We just stayed outside all day and had so much fun together.

It made me so happy to be in our new area.

What a blast we had all day.  I took a lot of video too to capture what a fun day we had with each other and our fun neighbors.

If you look close, you can see little Blake in his stroller near the garage :)

He's such a great little boy and loved being outside with us.

LegoAmerica!

This was seriously the coolest display of Legos showcasing American history and landmarks!

It was so fun and the kids loved it.

Liberty Bell

*We went with my great friend Ang and her sister Kristi and their kids*

 Gorgeous White House and yes, that is made of Legos!!!

 The Old North Church

 Had to make sure to capture the crack in the bell - isn't that awesome?

The kids all loved this and had so much fun!

They were so curious about what was inside the Liberty Bell - it was too cute not to capture all their curious little eyes.

 They had this entire area for the kids to build, make and race their cars.

How fun!!!

Thanks Ang and Kristi for being the repair crew.

Jax was quite proud of his creation.

 This little one was so good just hanging out watching everyone play.

 Great job Austin - whew!  Look how long that is.

Jefferson Memorial

 Lady Liberty herself!

AMAZING!

 US Capital Building

 Supreme Court

 Peek-a-boo!

I see you Abraham Lincoln...

Lincoln Memorial

These were all more amusing and fun Lego creations all put together.

Really cute and really creative.

 

 

Made me proud once again to be an American and live in this incredible country!