St. Patrick's Day

Our St. Patrick's Day started with opening packages from Grandpa Chuck and Grandma Stacy. The kids were thrilled!  They got a couple new movies, candy, tattoos, stickers... they couldn't have asked for more. Thank you both!  And, by the way, the movie "The Gruffalo" is the cutest movie ever. We have watched it a million times already. So clever, and cute, and funny.

Then we made a "leprechaun trap", to see if we could trick those little fellas into leaving their gold under a FAKE rainbow. The kids thought for sure it would work, and during nap time, it DID. :) It was all meant to be for fun, but Hawk got really nervous about little men sneaking into our house, so I told him they were just pretend and showed him some google images of cartoon leprechauns. He was too scared to nap alone, so I slept next to him, in case those leprechauns were real and I was wrong... Just in case, you know.

After eating the candy wrapped in gold, he decided he liked leprechauns. Then we made rainbow pictures for some friends and ding dong ditched them along with some gold. Sort of a pay it forward kind of St. Patrick's Day. We got candy, so we gave some friends some candy. The kids loved it. They each chose one friend. Lullaby chose Summer (then she and Hawk fought over whose picture they would leave there, since his choice was originally Logan).  After leaving Lullaby's note (she drew her rainbow all by herself) and gold coins, I picked up Lullaby, banged on the door and ran with her back to the car.  She loved it.

Then it was Hawk's turn. He chose Elle, a friend from preschool. He told me that she needed to have the surprise because she had a broken heart. :) He was SO excited to park down the street and make a run for it. He did great.

Matix chose his friend Jackson. He didn't want me to come with, since he could do it by himself, but I wanted a picture. Plus I wanted to be sure he actual ran. He has a habit of telling secrets and not letting surprises be surprises, so I thought he might have just knocked on the door and stood there for when they answered it.  He did great though and ran.

I am able to post this because Matix has since announced that we did this to the friends who read our blog. Of course. Stinker Matix.  Then we went for free green ice cream from Chick-Fil-A, with sprinkles! Best day ever.

Solace and I were there too. I promise. :)