St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!

I had so much fun making these decorations this year. I hand stitched the shamrocks onto the banner after I realized the Steam-a-Seam wasn't going to hold the felt on. I like the look of the hand stitched better anyways don't you?

We had such a great time with St. Patrick's day this year. Our day started out with the leprechaun flipping the boys high chairs over. Ben was so upset about the whole thing. We heard about it all day long and several days after that. Then that naughty leprechaun turned our pancakes into green shamrocks.

For lunch we had ham, cheese, and cucumber sandwiches all cut like shamrocks. We made pistachio pudding, and even had shamrock shakes.
When the boys were napping that tricky leprechaun came back to our house and made a big mess with shamrocks, hand-prints, footprints, and pots of gold. Sam was the first one up. As soon as he came out or the room he said "Oh no! Made a mess!" (or in Sammy language it sounds more like mee a mees!" He just kept saying it over and over again wandering through the house. Until the "pot of gold" filled with yellow M&Ms distracted him.Ben was a little different. He was so mad! He made his grouchy face and was yelling at the leprechaun until we told him it was ok. For days after St. Patrick's day Ben would look for leprechauns and their treasure.

For dessert we had rainbow cupcakes. They are so fun to make but are a little time consuming. first you take a white cake mix and separate it out into little bowls. Then you add food coloring to each bowl to make different colors. Once you have all your colors ready you layer them into the muffin tin. (this is the part that takes forever) This is what it looks like when it is baked. I forgot to take a picture of what it looks like when you brake it open but I found this picture online. Mine really did look just like this. but with green and white sprinkles on the top like on the pistachio pudding.

For dinner we had the best corn beef ever! (sorry no picture, I forgot to take it and when I went back to the store a few days later to buy more to make it again it wasn't on sale anymore. I had no idea how expensive it is because I only buy it once a year and it is always on sale during St. Patrick's day) anyways here is the recipe

Cook your Corn beef in the crock pot like usual. Then right before you are going to serve it put it in the oven for 20 minutes with this glaze

1 cup Dijon mustard
1 tbs paprika
brown sugar

It makes the meat a little bit crispy and extremely delicious.

Hope you had as great a day as we did! May the luck o' the Irish always be with you!