Life and Times of The Johnston family: St. Patty's Day Fun!

Since St. Patrick's Day was on Sunday this year we had a two part celebration. I was totally off my game and never got around to the St. Patty's worksheets and such for Elizabeth's school(but never fear we plan on doing them this week) Elizabeth just really wanted to work in her workbook last week so I went with it. We also did some review of telling time(since we had been working on counting by 5's earlier) and then she wanted to learn about money so we starting into that as well. Anyway back to St. Patty's stuff, Saturday evening Tony's parents had there annual St. Patrick's Day dinner with corned beef and cabbage, and potatoes and lots of other yummy stuff(and chicken nuggets for those of us who just don't appreciate corned beef....like myself, and a lot of the younger kids.) It was a lot of fun, Elizabeth really enjoyed seeing and playing with her cousins, and Devin had fun playing as well. Sunday morning we had a visit from a tricky little leprechaun, who once again was beat to the mess making by my own two little mess making leprechauns! But he still hid a pot of his gold in our house, and left shamrock clues to find it....if you could follow them just right! Elizabeth did so good with it, we could hardly keep up with her! She read all the clues and was on to the next one so fast, poor little Devin could barely keep up! She got all the clues right too cause in the end she found the pot of gold and some gifts from the tricky little leprechaun. They had lots of fun with it! For lunch with the help of some things from my mom, Elizabeth had a green themed lunch! Then it was off to church where Sacrament meeting was quite the struggle with both of them, but mostly Devin. Elizabeth did great in primary, but Devin had to be brought to me with about ten minutes left in Relief Society as he wasn't tolerating being around people...he was all done with church, he told me so. He told me "Sissy, Dada, bye bye." Meaning lets get Sissy and Dada and go home. We of course couldn't do that so I took him into the mother's room(after trying to take him back into Relief Society with me, and him crying the moment I sat down) and let him calm down and chill until church was actually over. That night for dinner Tony BBQ'd yummy chicken and potatoes and we had dinner with my parents, then watched Rise of the Guardians, which we really liked. And that was the rest of our week and St. Patty's Day fun!

On Saturday we put the kids in their St. Patty's day shirts and Devin went over to the couch and said, "Sissy, cheese", he just assumed we'd do pictures! Have I got them well trained or what?!! So I snapped a couple even though Elizabeth's hair wasn't done yet.