Yellow Makes Me Happy

St. Patty's Day in Review...

We had a very green St. Patty's day!  We started out with a special present left by a mysterious Leprechaun...

Remember Whistle Pops?  I haven't seen those in years!  Of course I found them at my store.  I love it there!

We had green Swedish pancakes & green t-shirts...

  

We had sparkly shamrock glasses for the teachers and St. Patty's day cookies (Chewy chocolate cookies with crushed minty malt balls mix into them)

Then we concludes with green, yes green pizza & green sprite!

He he... What do you think of that?

I forgot!  We also made some leprechauns...

 

I hope your day was as green as ours!  Good luck and good fortune to you!

The cure for my picky eater!

My third child challenges me everyday!  Not always in a bad way, she just has a lot of spirit!  Anyway, we have been struggling with her eating habits for a while.  My older two kids will pretty much eat whatever I put infront of them, but this little one wrinkles her nose up at almost everything! 

A month or so ago, we went to a local restaurant called Fujiama.  It's a Benihana kind of a place.  While we were there, they fashioned some kid friendly chopsticks for the kids.  They used a rubber band and a piece of paper at the top... Anyway, that was really interesting for Georgie... She ate EVERY piece of her chicken and a good portion of her rice.  I tried to save those chopsticks for as long as I could... Eventually they gave out!

Well, last Friday while out shopping I found a set of "cheater" chopsticks...  They have worked magic at every meal since I brought them home. 

Evidence... breakfast waffles...

She cleaned her plate! (This was Monday morning... Instead of getting dressed she put on her fairy outfit... she get's to stay home with dad Monday mornings while I take the other 2 to school)

    Charley really like them too!

And of course Sam had to get in on the action...

Success! I'll take any victory!

Sunday night rituals and more...

Every Sunday night my little family gathers on our yellow sectional couch (yeah I'm not sure why I thought a light colored couch was a good idea with 3 kids).  We usually have a little treat of some kinds and we prepare for an hour of family togetherness... also known as America's Funniest Home Videos.  It's on Sunday's at 7pm.  Our entire family laughs out loud!  I look forward to that hour all week!

  Even our dog, Harper, get's in on the action :) 

I tried a few new recipes this week too.  Zach's favorite (and maybe the only thing) that his mom makes is 7 layer bean dip.  I saw a recipe that is a little different than my mother-in-laws over on The Pioneer Woman's blog.  She has a whole cooking section over there, and I have used several of her recipes.  Anyway, I made this dip for Zach and Sam to take to a basketball party... It looked GOOD!

  Tell me you don't want a scoop of that!

I also made this... I'm always on a quest to make something different and fun for the kids on the breakfast rotation...

Can you tell what they are? Hehe... They are not biscuits and gravy... they are bisquits with CHOCOLATE gravy!  Needless to say they were devoured!  I got the recipe for this one over on the Bake or Break blog.  I have spent hours on end looking at that blog.  I am bound and determined to try all of the recipes over there!  Yum!

I also made a couple of cards :)!

   A little Irish for ya!  Considering we are only a couple weeks from St. Patty's day!  Everything I used on this card was from A Muse except the shamrock punch which is Martha Stewart Crafts from Michael's.

 This little bunny in the carrot car is my favorite new stamp from the Spring A Muse release!  It is so cute!  Everything I used on this card was from A Muse except the black card stock (which was a scrap) and my Copic markers :)