Did you wear your Green?

    Tonight, I was updating the pages of my blog and I noticed I hadn't posted how we celebrated St. Patrick's Day.  Sooo here is all the fun we had making leprechaun traps, following the signs to the end of the rainbow, the festive food, and cute pictures I took of the kiddos!

I found these yummy Green Mint Dark Chocolate M&M's,

perfect for St. Patrick's Day snack!

The Friday before St. Patrick's Day I made this

rainbow inspired lunch for Liam.

That Sunday, before St. Patrick's Day, Liam and the hubby 

constructed a Leprechaun trap.

The next morning, was St. Patrick's Day, we discovered

Liam's trap with a few surprises, a rainbow trail for us to follow,

but no leprechaun.  He must have been very sneaky!

Since Liam was the first one up, he found all the colored signs first

ending in a rainbow with a basketful of goodies!

What a lot of fun treats!

While Liam was getting ready for school, I made his a 

snack that had Fruity (rainbow) Cheerios and a packet of Applesauce.

And here is his festive lunch!

Grapes & Kiwi

Green Goldfishes

 Green Apple Jelly & Peanut Butter Sandwich with green sprinkles

Shamrock Cookie

Rainbow Sweet Sour Strip

That day I wind up keeping him home since he wasn't feeling well that day...

but of course later that day he was fine. Go figure!

So I set up a little photo shoot for the kiddos after their naps.

Here's a selfie of us wearing our green!

My cute little leprechauns 

After pictures they had some fun playing while I made some dinner.

Our Saint Patrick's Day Feast!

Cornbeef

Cabbage

Root Veggies

Shamrock Rolls

Kinley tried out the Irish fare for the first time and liked it!

I baked these Lucky Leprechaun Cookies for dessert!

After we put the kiddos to bed, I enjoyed a couple of the cookies in bed 

while sporting my cool Shamrock Socks to watch The Voice.

Another great St. Patrick's came and went. 

We had a lot of fun and no one got pinched!

Top of the Mornin' to You

     Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day, so why not dress the kiddos up in green and some leprechaun hats to take some pictures?  That's exactly what I did!  My babies are growing up so fast, gotta take as many pictures as I can!  So here's my little models.....

St. Patrick's Day Treats

     I am ALL about St. Patrick's Day fun and celebrations, so I wanted to make something special that Liam could bring to his class.  I had purchased a bunch of chocolate gold coins last month just for St. Patrick's Day.  But, what to do with them?  Why not make some cute rainbow pouches out of coffee filters? Perfect!

Here's what you need:

Chocolate gold coins

coffee filters

markers

green ribbon

scissors

spray bottle with water in it

How to make it:

First using the markers, color the coffee filter in rainbow order. (ROYGBIV)

Or however you want, I just liked the rainbow look, since it was St. Patrick's Day.

Place the colored coffee filter on a paper plate or a tray.

Spray a little water onto the coffee filter to moisten it.

Place the wet coffee filter on some old newspaper to dry.

When they are dry, place 2 or 3 chocolate gold coins in the middle of the coffee filter.

Pull up the sides and tie a piece of green ribbon around to make a little pouch.

 Here's what they will look like!

Such a cute way to say HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

Lucky Leprechaun Cookies

Recipe adapted from Sugar Plum Blog

What you need:

1 TBsp unsalted buter

1/4 cup granulated sugar

3/4 cups Lucky Charms cereal pieces (not the marshmallows)

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp baking powder

1/4 tspsalt

1/2 cup unsalted butter (room temperature)

3/4 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 large egg (room temperature)

3/4 cup Lucky Charms marshmallows

1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips.

How to make it:
Preheat oven to 350˚F. Spray a baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Melt 1 TBsp butter in a small saucepan over medium heat; whisk in 1/4 cup sugar until combined. Bring to a boil, until sugar dissolves. Stir in cereal pieces until combined. Place in prepared pan, bake 5 minutes, stir, bake an additional 5 minutes or until golden brown and crisp. Line baking sheets with parchment paper, for the cookies. In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. In a large bowl of an electric mixer on medium speed beat the butter, sugar, and vanilla until creamy, about 1 minute. Beat in egg until combined. Reduce speed to low and beat in the flour mixture until just combined. Stir in in candied cereal pieces, marshmallows, and chocolate chips until just combined. Scoop out tablespoons of dough onto prepared cookie sheets, about 1 inch apart. Bake 10-13 minutes or until slightly crisp and starting to turn golden around the edges. Cool 1 minute before transferring to a wire rack to cool. ENJOY!

Our Saint Patrick's Day

     Saint Patrick's Day is one of my favorite holidays, guess it's the Irish in me coming out, or that I love the color green, or the fun tricks the leprechauns play... This year Liam and I had a lot of fun making leprechaun traps, going on a rainbow shamrock scavenger hunt looking for the leprechaun's special surprises, enjoying rainbow, green shamrock, and Irish food.  Even Kinley and the hubby enjoyed this fun holiday.  

Liam and I read "The Night Before St. Patrick's Day" 

and created our very own Leprechaun traps the night before.

One out of a box with scrapbook paper, stickers, and glitter

the other he created out of his legos,

with gold coins leading up to the trap of course.

When Liam woke up the leprechauns 

left shamrocks on his door...

Turned the chairs on their sides...

He took the gold coins from the traps 

and left the first shamrock of a rainbow scavenger hunt.

The first was a red Shamrock that said "MOM" 

and some chocolate Gold Coins.

Looks like the leprechauns played a trick on mom 

and left chocolate coins in her pocket.

And the second orange shamrock

 was taped to her leg, said "PEE"

Liam headed to the bathroom to discover GREEN pee,

more chocolates, and the third yellow shamrock "CAT".

He then went into the laundry room where the kitty's food is

to find the green shamrock "CUP" and more coins.

He looked in the kitchen for his cups 

and found the blue "TV" shamrock.

The last purple shamrock was on the T.V. sound bar

that said "PILLOW".

Liam found a basket of special treasures the leprechaun left

behind the couches in the pile of pillows.

Kinley and Daddy got special surprises too!

I made Liam a Rainbow Breakfast

A Green Shamrock Lunch

A Festive Green Snack

And an Irish Dinner & Dessert

Corned Beef & Veggies

Guinness Bread with Molasses

Sweet & Salty Guinness Chocolate Pie

Here's some of the fun pictures we took, all dressed in GREEN

No one got pinched this year!

Lucky Daddy Kisses

Kinley tried to get Daddy's Guinness

Our little Irish Lady

Our little Irish Man

Our Little Leprechauns 

Happy Saint Patrick's Day from the Mastersons!