When we got home from church a couple of weeks ago, Elisabeth asked if we could go to the temple and take pictures on the grounds. She was hoping we could either frame the pictures or at the very least, put them on my blog or send them to the grandparents. We told her that would be fine unless it started to rain or snow. It didn't rain or snow, so we went, but it was still windy and chilly. Scott snapped these two pictures before we all ran back to the van. They're not really frame-worthy (Sorry, Honey. You're a great photographer but the wind was just too crazy) but here they are anyway. Our family minus Scott, the photographer, outside of the Oquirrh temple. We'll have to go back another day when the weather cooperates.
St. Patricks at our house was pretty laid back this year(aka, I was lazy and unprepared and didn't think of anything cool; but my kids didn't seem to mind). We all dressed up in green, the girls begged me to paint their faces with shamrocks and a pot-of-gold, and we had green smoothies for breakfast. That's it. And we have Green Smoothies with breakfast every morning, anyway. When I handed them their green smoothies in the morning I said, "Happy St. Patricks Day! You get to drink your Green Smoothie.' I made sure to overemphasize the word 'Green'. My kids laughed and thought I was kind of dorky for saying that :).
Here are a couple of cool ideas I'd like to add next year that I stole from my friends blogs:
1. Serve a green dinner and lunch(or an Irish dinner). Have the kids who are home share lunch from a muffin tin with lots of different green foods: salad, kiwi, celery with pb and raisins, perhaps a dyed green cookie(healthier version of a cookie), maybe some homemade green cheez-its and a green 100% apple juice box.
2. For dessert at dinner, make a rainbow with tons of fruits. Strawberries, oranges, pineapple, kiwi, blueberries, grapes, with bananas at the end of the rainbow in a small bowl. Here's a picture I stole from Lindsay's blog. We'll probably skip the marshmallows. My kids LOVE fruit so I think they'll love this. Charlie is obsessed with blueberries but I don't frequently buy them because they can be pretty pricey.
