Spirit Week at School

Hat Day

Luke had some spirit as well.

Crazy Hair Day was messier, but fun.

It took awhile to wash all of the gel out of the boys' hair. Peyton just had an upside-down do.
We've got spirit!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

We started our day off with a visit from our own friendly Leprechaun. He hid little green buckets full of candy for the kids around the living/dining room. The buckets contained chocolates in green wrappers and green jelly beans etc. We left him some "gold" in exchange.

We love spinach smoothies at our house. So, it was only natural that we drink one for St. Patrick's Day. This smoothie is delicious and only contains spinach, pineapple, banana, ice and water. We started off our dinner by earning smoothie mustaches.

Dinner was green shepherd's pie, eaten on green plates.
We love to go all green for St. Patrick's Day!

We were even lucky enough (thank goodness I have an Irish name:)) to get Mark home in time for dinner, which is a rare treat around here! He not only got some green dinner, he also was able to go play basketball at the church after the kids went to bed.

Oh how I love the green smoothie mustache, it goes so well with everything.
We hope you had a very green St. Patrick's Day as well!!

Celebrating 3 Years with Benjamin

Benjamin turned three years old today.

We had our celebratory birthday breakfast of pancakes with pudding, whipped cream and chocolate sauce.
Then we went out to play. It was chilly, but we were excited about the sunshine.

What would a birthday be without a stop at Toys R Us?

Benjamin chose a Sheriff Woody plush toy and was a happy camper.

Daddy snuck out of work and met us at Chuck E Cheese's for Benjamin's birthday dinner and some play time.

After dinner we went home to enjoy birthday cake. Benjamin really loves Sheriff Woody, so it was only fitting that he have a Sheriff Woody cake.

He liked it, so it was worth all of the time that went into creating it.

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Luke really enjoyed the cake and ice cream!

Everyone was excited for presents.

Benjamin loved his new Thomas track!

All in all, we wore him all with all the fun.
Happy Birthday, sweet Benjamin! I'm so glad you are mine.