Happy St. Patrick's Day

Okay - so I know it's June... not March. But we had a fun St. Patrick's Day this year that I never blogged about and since I haven't scrapbooked in uh...over 2 years (cringe cringe) I wanted to record it for posterity sake.

Emma learned in Kindergarten about little green guys named Leprechauns...heard of them? Well, apparently they come during the night and cause all kinds of mischief. Emma was so excited about them coming she made a trap to catch them:



In case you can't read her writing it says Welcome Leprechauns and there are little gold coins glued inside to lure them in. She spent quite a bit of time on this so of course the little green guys had to show up.

I ran to Walmart that night after the kiddos were sleeping and grabbed lucky charms, gold coins (which I think I actually ended up getting at CVS and were NOT easy to find), and green shirts. I wrote a few letters from the "leprechauns". The first one was left in Emma's bedroom by the trap and said something along the lines of 'Ha ha ha, you can't catch us but follow the shamrocks to a special surprise". When Emma woke up she not only found the note but found her room to be turned upside down and she was wearing a green shirt that I slipped on her during the night. She ran into my bedroom to show me the note and was so excited. Jacob soon followed - in his green shirt as well and they both followed the shamrocks down the hallway and into the kitchen:

On the table was another note with this:

Chocolate gold coins, crayons & scissors to make more crafty things like leprechaun traps, lucky charms and a note that said the milk in the fridge was green.

The kids were so ecstatic and it was fun to see their excitement. They were especially in awe of how those sneaky leprechauns got them in green shirts while they were sleeping. Emma has vowed to make a souped up trap next year that will catch the leprechauns for sure.

She got to have green hair at school that day so I found this wig on clearance at Target which was much easier than trying to paint her hair green. She was a little shy to wear it at first and wanted to take it off until kids in the first grade class next to hers said "awesome!" as she walked by. Then she thought she was cool stuff.


Oh, and Ben wore his St. Patty's day shirt all of 5 minutes as he decided to help himself to some peanut butter for breakfast:


Overall it was a pretty fun day!