A Green Day ( no, not that kind of green.)

Owen feeling festive for his first St. Patrick's Day. He even had a green outfit. We had such a fun St. Patrick's Day last year that the girls had me convinced we had to carry on the tradition of celebrating this fun green day.  I will confess it was not as fun as last year...but let's just focus on the positives.

I love this picture even though my camera was on the wrong setting and it looks a bit funky. I decided something fun and festive was make your own pizza night. That is a favorite here at our house. I even put out the bowl of spinach so we could have green pizza. A  big thank you to Patsy for her amazing pizza recipe! We love it. Almost everyone was willing to put at least one piece of spinach on their pizza...uh huh, one piece of spinach, pretty funny.

Doug and I get the big pizza. We are extra hungry.

The girls all get to make their own little pizzas.  Well, Nicolette has to share the big pizza with mom and dad. I am sure that won't last much longer. Before I know it she will be demanding her own mini pizza. 

Vivien's night started off bad. Her new zuzu pet, which she earned for finding my keys..which were lost for a week, but that's another story.  Well, her new zuzu pet met a terrible demise when it was banned to the laundry room shelf for eating up a huge chunk of hair girl's hair.  Of course, when we were at the store and I read the "hair warning" on the toy I new right then and there...big mistake. Yet, I bought the lovely pet anyway and hence the hair disaster. Luckily, I was able to convince Vivi to focus on her pizza, she said she would but, she would not be happy about it!

many pizzas in the oven...yum!

During all the fun pizza business Doug and Owen were busy and focused on filling out our Census information. We're good citizens. It's the right thing to do. Doug is a great citizen. I wish he was our president, he would be a good one. I know things in the country would be running much smoother if he was in charge. That might make things real un-smoothish for me, but I could sacrifice for the country.

Ava made this over the top darling Leprechaun house at school. We used it for our center piece. I am so grateful to get to have all of Ava's creative art around.

A fun green dinner. I actually do love celebrating St. Patrick's Day. It's a low key holiday with no presents to buy.  Do you love all the smiles on this group? Yes, I blackmailed them all with "no dessert if you don't smile for my picture", and presto...big smiles:)