I am sorry this is so close to St. Patrick’s day. I just designed this last night for me to go visit my church sisters for Visiting Teaching.ย However I created one for regular use as well for all of my readers. I made this tag that will fit on a sandwich size zip top…
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My favorite treat I made for family and friends last year comes from Beth Proudfoot – found here Then on St. Patrick’s day- the leprechaun’s left the kids little treats in their shoes – But that is not all he left…… He left quite a mess in the living room. Totally tossed it. The kids…
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I forgot that I also didn’t blog about our St. Patrick’s Day dinner last year. Here is a recap of our fun! Yummy lemon bunt cake – recipe here We love this yummy Irish Garlic & Herb Butter –ย We find it every year at Publix. YUM Irish Soda Bread ๐ Rainbow Fruit Corned beef…
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I made my kiddo’s a St. Patrick’s day lunch last year. I plan to do the same this year ๐ Everything green. ๐ Grapes, Pickle, Marshmallows I used food writers to decorate, green fruit roll up, green box of apple juice, and their sandwich I used the food writer on as well. ๐ They loved…
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Again – I apologize for the iphone photos. We were still unpacking into the new house we moved into. But again- never will we miss a chance to party ๐ Mardi Gras was alot of fun. We got to teach our kids what it meant and what Fat Tuesday is. We also got to try…
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I must apologize for the terrible photos. We had just moved into a new house just the week before and hadn’t unpacked our good camera much less the rest of the house. However that never stops us from celebrating. So if you can look past the yuck photography of my iphone- I would love to…
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We changed things up a little bit from last year. It wouldn’t be fun to do it exactly as last year.ย (FOUND HERE) Will start with the dinner. –ย Green Eggs & Smoked/Cooked Ham – Lorax Grits (yes I made that up but its yellow/cheese grits), Cat in the Hat fruit skewers. Decorations were easy–…
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Today is Dr. Seuss birthday ๐ย We always celebrate and my daughter insisted she dress up for the occasion for school. She was super excited. Tonight we will have our festive dinner and celebration. ๐ย ย I am also the room mom I will be delivering some fun “Thing 1 & Thing 2” cupcakes to her…
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Last and final post.ย This post will cover the GAME/ACTIVITY portion of the banquet. Mentioned before in previous posts- we stacked up moving boxes for the game. We used 10 dodge balls. 5 green 5 red. We found them cheaply at Walmart. We use dodgeball all the time for scouts so they will be used…
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Any excuse to dress up the table and have a fancier/funner (is that a word?) dinner– I am all on it! I love my Silhouette machine. I use it all the time to cut out things in a snap. For this dinner I used it for the Frog Bags, Lily Pads & Flower place mat…
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My daughter is going to take this fun little gift to her classmates. Nothing over the top- but something to celebrate the day. After all it only happens every 4 years ๐ I got a bag of 8 frogs for 1.00 at my local dollar store ๐ Bagged them up added a cute topper on…
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Decorations were the easiest at this banquet. Since we had just moved 3 weeks prior to this event- I needed this to be a VERY simple event. However, it turned out to be one of our best ones yet. Even better! Lots and Lots of moving boxes came in handy ๐ Stacked them up high,…
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This year I wanted to plan something fun for the boys. So I did. I love the angry birds and was even more exited when they came to facebook. I don’t play any other game but that. My “ME” thing as a mom. Of course it’s the perfect theme for Cub Scouts and families.ย But–…
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Dr. Seuss birthday is coming up March 2nd. I thought I would share what we did last year. To inspire any of our readers. We will do another fun dinner too again this year. Decorations on the table…. Dinner we had Green Eggs & Ham, and Cat in the Hat style Pancakes (I don’t make…
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I apologize for the lateness of this post. The holidays really came so quickly and was hard to keep up. ๐ But better late than never right? Using pretty straw/raffia filler from Micheals Crafts. We filled plastic ornaments with it. Our little tree — just branches stuck into a french bucket filled with rocks. And…
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