Showing posts with label St. Patrick's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Patrick's Day. Show all posts

Monday, March 19, 2012

2012 Blue Jeans Week 11

Hello!  Welcome to Blue Jeans Momma.  I am glad you stopped by.  I am doing my 4th year of documenting my family's life by taking a picture a day.  Here is what we have been up to this week. . .

Sunday:  Mr J and Miss O made this awesome train track in the family room today after church. 

Monday:  We played Uno for our family night game tonight.  That is such a classic, fun game that everyone can play and enjoys.
Tuesday:  After school my kids went down to the library to help their Nana paint a picture for her library.  My sister and brother-in-law were there to help too.

Wednesday:  Ben plays a duet with Mr J.  We have piano competitions and recitals coming up in April that all the kids are getting ready for.  Three of the kids are playing duets with their dad.  Love it!  (and glad it is him and not me :)

Thursday:  Awards assembly at school!  Super smart and hard-working kiddos!  Sure proud of them!

Friday:  We live in a small town, and our town has a Dairy Queen, but it is super small and closes for the winter.  When it finally opens in the spring it is a big deal.  "DQ is open!"  is the rumor through town.  So we heard, "DQ is open," and we had to go make sure they didn't change anything over the winter and make sure the blizzards were still as good :)  They are.  Miss E, my sister, Miss O, and Mr J hang out and eat their blizzards at DQ today.

Saturday:  Our traditional St. Patrick's Day dinner--everything is green--green mashed potatoes with green gravy, green jello, green milk, green broccoli, and green pudding!  Yum!  We had green sherbet floats for dessert!

These two leprechauns visited our house Saturday.  They woke me up in the morning "Top o' the morning to ye!" they said.  They decorated our front window with this pretty sign and spread (chocolate) gold coins all over the house.  Sure do like those leprechauns!

Hope you all have a great week!


Naptime Momtog

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Blue Jeans Week 9

Sunday:  Ben is known for his awesome ice drinks--basically cool-aid, ice and sugar, but the kids love them!  He favored us with one as our Sunday night treat.   Loved the color of everyone's tounges after drinking :)
Monday:  We played a matching game for family night tonight.  We found this thick wooden matching game set years ago, and it is still one of our favorites. 
Tuesday:  The kids walking to the library after school on a beautiful almost spring day!

Wednesday:  Wash day, and the evening is folding day, and Ben is very good to fold all the clothes for me.  I wash, he folds.  This arrangement works well :)

Thursday:  Happy St. Patrick's Day!  We always celebrate with a green dinner, green mashed potatoes with green gravy, green peas, green broccoli, green jello, green salad, green kiwi, and green punch.  We were lucky enough to have my sister be with us for this year's annual green dinner.  Lots of fun.  We had frozen green lime fruit bars for dessert.  Green yum! 
Friday:  We got a special package in the mail today from cousins with these wonderful blankets for the kids.  Their aunt made them, and they all loved them.  Thank you, thank you Aunt Emily!!!  What a blessing family is!
Saturday:  This is what Ben and I did almost all day--drive.  We drove 9 hours today to Omaha (4 1/2 up, 4 1/2 back) so we could attend the Winter Quarters Temple.  It was a very long drive, but very nice to just be the two of us in the car and be able to go to the temple.  Huge thanks to my mom and sister for babysitting.  What a blessing.  Hope spring is heading your way this week and that you have a good one!

 

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Happy St. Patrick's Day and Guest Post

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I am excited to be guest posting on the blog Or So She Says today.
My guest post is on Wed. March 17, and they post a different post everyday, so just look for the March 17th post, and you will find me. I figured since it is St. Patrick's Day, I better show you what I put up with my fishing line this month. You know me and fishing line. . .

I cut out a bunch of shamrocks on my cricut--big 5 1/2 inch green ones and smaller 2 1/2 inch white ones. I was going to put them up like I do all my other shapes, but decided to do something different. I connected them with grommets (I don't know if that is the proper term, but, you know what I mean) and then on the ends put some fishing line to hang them up.
Everything all connected.

Hanging on my big kitchen window. They make me happy! Luck of the Irish to you today!