St. Patrick's Day

I am a little late getting the St. Patrick's Day post up. The 2 days leading up to St. Patrick's Day, I had lessons to start getting them in the mood. On Monday we talked about green things and shamrocks and played some matching games with green things. On Tuesday, I told them about Ireland. I showed them pictures of Ireland and played Irish music for them.

Now it was Wednesday. We had a fun day. I had lots of things planned for the boys. First up was breakfast. I made them green blueberry muffins. Hunter really enjoyed them he ate 2. Jaxon didn't really like them too much so I ended up giving to Hunter for a total of 3. He kept telling me they were delicious.


After breakfast I dressed them in green and then decorated their door. Jaxon enjoyed touching the little pictures of leprechauns, rainbows, and pots of gold and telling me what they were. Hunter kept telling me the door was pretty.


Next up came lunch. I made them green macaroni and cheese. I used too much food coloring and dyed the macaroni darker than I wanted. Jaxon loved his and scarfed down 2 bowls worth, but it took Hunter some time before he finished just one bowl. After lunch, we had school. I read to them stories about the History of St. Patrick's Day, stories about leprechauns and other mythical stories from Ireland. They played some matching games about St. Patrick's Day too.

When my mom got home I roped her and my dad in to helping out with a "Leprechaun Gold Hunt". My mom would lead the boys around outside looking for the leprechaun while my dad hid by the back gate with a mask I had made him (a leprechaun face on a stick) pretending to be the leprechaun while I took pictures and video. The boys had a blast running around looking for him, especially Hunter. They spotted the "leprechaun" peering over the gate and took off after him. Hunter unfortunately realized that grandpa was not a real leprechaun and started to get mad. We had the boys tag the leprechaun so he could take him to his rainbow and pot of gold (picture of a rainbow taped up with cups that had cookies and candy inside with a picture of a pot of gold taped to the front of it). Hunter was a little sad there weren’t actually gold coins in the cup, but he enjoyed the treasure regardless.

For dinner I didn’t make any real traditional foods. I made steak (boys wanted cereal), au gratin potatoes. For dessert we had devil’s food cake with vanilla butter frosting. It was delicious. Great end to a great day.

Valentine's Day

Hunter signed it on the left corner, Jaxon all over the center and right side :)

Valentine's Day has come and gone. We had very relaxing day. Little to my knowledge the day before, Mark had taken the boys out on the town so I could sleep in (he brought me lunch when they got back :D ) and they had gone to Target and picked me up a Vaentine's gift from the 3 of them. I didn't think we were going to be doing any gifts besides our phones (see a previous entry). I had insisted later that night for us to go to the grocery store so we can do our shopping for the next couple of weeks. Mark had left my gift in the bag on the passenger seat, expecting to come and get in the morning to surprise me when I woke up. So when I get in the car to go to the store I asked what was in the bag. He looks at me and goes "there goes the surprise", I started laughing I apologized and told hiim next time hide it better.He had the boys pick out the cutest card from them and then to encourage my new little hobby he got me a big box of colored pencils (100 pencils, in every color you can think of) since the ones I had been using were a mixture of 3-4 different sets my brother and I had growing up. I also got a pad of drawing paper (I had been using computer paper). I thought it was a sweet gift from my 3 favorite boys. I can't wait till I get some time to myself to try them out.

So the night before Valentine's Day I had made a devil's food cake with vanilla butter frosting with 4 red heart outlines and star sprinkles on top for our dessert for Valentine's Day. To go with this delicious cake I made teriyaki steak (a specialty of mine) for me and Mark (the boys had chicken rings), corn, mashed potatoes, and macaroni and cheese from scratch (got the recipe and idea from Katrina who had made mini mac and cheese bites, and since I didnt have a mini muffin tin I had a regular muffin tin and used that, thanks Katrina;) ). Everything came out great! What a nice day it was!