Been hangin' around

Better post our St. Patrick's Day shenanigans before March is over!



Those pesky leprechauns turned our pancake dinner green. Chloe and Linus spent the rest of the evening turning over every corner in the house looking for where they ran off to. Initially I think Chloe was kind of freaked out (I haven't done much with St. P's day in the past, so this was a new thing)- I got all excited and announced when things had mysteriously turned green (like our apples for the pancakes, pictured here) and Chloe got all startled and looked nervous like the leprechauns were going to come out and turn her green too, but once Linus got into it, her fear disappeared and they demanded to know what they looked like. I then had to pull up some cartoon images of what a leprechaun looked like on google to show them (had to put the "cartoon" part in the search engine, otherwise images from that weird horror movie about leprechauns would pop up...and would probably not aide in Chloe's nerves at all). Linus loved the pancakes (everything was green, pancakes, apples, and whipped cream...the leprechauns missed the OJ, though, oops...), Chloe took some convincing that they tasted the same, as you can see.

A couple of weekends ago, Craig washed the car with the kids. They had a blast, and I think they dumped more water than actually got on the car.

We're on Spring Break now, which has and will include hanging around the house, playing outside and at the park when it's warm, baking cookies, organizing those disaster corners of our house, making real meals every night, spending a night in Denver with my parents, going to the zoo, and then general conference this weekend (where leaders of our church speak to the entire worldwide congregation, always a much needed spiritual rocket-boost for me). Woot!