St. Patrick's Day

I know I am a little late with this post, but we had so much fun that I had to share it. It all started when my husband spotted these pajama bottoms at the store. He needed some new ones so I caved and bought them. Well, the day before St. Patrick's Day, Bret tells me that he wants a day of green. So we started plotting and planning.

Here are the pants that start all the fun.

We start the day off with pancakes. I don't know if you can tell, but they are green. And yes, I did try to make them into shamrocks. After trying about six times, I gave up and the rest were all traditionally round! I did have to make my daughter's second helping into the shamrocks...she asked with the puppy dog eyes and she didn't care if they were not exactly right!

We ate breakfast so late that it was really brunch. Well, that threw my plans off a bit. We were supposed to make shamrock cookies after lunch, but that would have put us too close to dinner. So we nixed that idea.

For dinner, we had Shepherd's Pie. I had never made it before so I was excited to give it try. Everyone really liked it except for my two. Hannah and Ian dislike anything remotely tasty.

Here is my adorable husband in all of his St. Patty's glory!!
He is so proud of his outfit. He actually wore his pajamas all day long!

My father-in-law showing a little St. Patty's spirit! Business man during the day, Shamrock party animal at night!!!

Then to top it all off, we enjoyed with some lime sherbet. Libby pointed out that it
is not pronounced "sherbert" because there is no "r" in the second syllable. I did not believe her
but there really is not. All these years I have been pronouncing it incorrectly.

I am so glad that my husband came up with this idea.

The day ended without me getting pinched and we enjoyed many things green and Irish.

Twilight - DVD Release Party!!!

The day that the dvd was released, I went to the best party. A group of fun women, good food, and vampires!!! The pictures say it all!! Amy, thank you so much for hosting such an awesome party. I really had so much fun!

Could this sign be any truer??

We couldn't drink this wine. It was just too cool. Perfect occasion to bring out the vampire wine!!!

I wanted to bring something super cute to the party. This is what I came up with. They were so much fun to make!!!!

Does Amy know how to throw a party or what???
The food was fantastic and the decorations....

were awesome!!!

All in all, I had a great night. It was so much fun watching the movie with everyone. The commentaries were my favorite!!!

SNOW!!!! SNOW!!! SNOW!!!!

The last time it snowed in Alabaster, my family was in Mobile. Did it snow there? Nope! Hannah and Ian were so disappointed. They got to school on Monday and everyone was talking about the snow. They even drew pictures about their snow filled weekend!

Well, not this time!!! We were here and we enjoyed ourselves to the fullest!!! We made snowmen & snow-women! We had snow ball fights! They really hurt if you got hit in the face! And we tried to slide down the hill in the front yard. That one didn't go so well. Just not enough hill...oh well, it was fun trying!!

After the fun in the snow...we came inside and enjoyed a nice warm (not hot-they are only 5 & 6) cup of cocoa. Then we enjoyed a nice big bowl of chili!! Okay, so Hannah and Ian won't eat chili, but everyone else enjoyed it. They ate a hotdog. I know-of all things!!

Could the day get any better? If I only had the video of Snow Day! That would have topped it all off!!


Here are a few pictures that capture the fun we had this morning.

Not my finest hour, but I did have fun!!