family pics

I got a wild hair. I should have just ignored it, but I didn’t……I’m glad I didn’t.

It all started when I found some very cute St. Patrick’s Day hair things for $1 each at Big Lots. As the holiday got closer I started thinking what clothes the kids could wear that were green. Looking through the laundry I would find something that could work, that was sort of green, or that had a bit of green on it. None of them really had anything that was what I thought to be green enough for St Patrick’s Day. I would have to get something I guess.

There is another blog that I read occasionally, and the girl who writes it always does the cutest crafty things. Recently she’s made a few different shirts for her girls and I started thinking that I could probably do something like that. Then somehow, buying shirts and decorating them, turned into also making skirts for the girls (maybe some sort of layered tutu type skirt made with green tulle?? what I found was better – sheer with glitter shamrocks). I was feeling really crafty now. Unfortunately, by the time I’d decided to really do this, I only had 2 days to get it done and a few other errands to run in that time.

It probably should have been a sign that this might be too big an undertaking when I had to go to three different stores to buy all the things I needed to make what I wanted. I kept with the idea though. Which is why I spent all of nap time, part of the evening, all of the after-bedtime-me-time and until the wee hours of the night on the 16th making fun outfits. My sewing machine is covered in green glitter (as is most of my house now I’m sure) and I am really tired but they turned out really well and I am glad I did it.

Don’t they look just cute? Nels has learned “cheese” from Gavin and Saedi. Every time I got the camera out today, which was often, Nels said “cheese.”

After Saedi came home from school I got a few great ones of them all together; this one’s the best.

Having taken pictures of all the kids I decided I wouldn’t mind one of me too. I was showing Saedi how to use the camera (hold it like this, look through here, push the button half way to focus and hold it, then press harder to take the picture) and we ended up with this one.

This is the one she took.

I wanted to do something fun for dinner as well, without being too ambitious. I wanted to make something the kids would like and eat quickly, that wouldn’t be too involved to cook, and that I could color green. The kids don’t really like eggs so Green Eggs & Ham were out. I decided that pancakes would work fabulously and, since Nate was out of town, no one would mind if I made breakfast for dinner. So here are my first ever green pancakes.

I even made one for each of us with chocolate chips for dessert!

Sláinte!