St Patrick's Day

notice i didn't say "happy" or use a "!"? well i didn't. and that is because we go the "take it down a notch" version of this "holiday". as kent points out: we are not irish. we are not catholic. we do not drink. ... point taken lol besides, you all know how i feel about magic characters coming to my house who leave and/or take stuff that in actuality has to be carried out by me. thus died this holiday at the mackay household as celebrated by an ever increasing number of other american families.
but we still had a little fun =o]

kent bought lucky charms cereal and i made the kids save it for st patrick's day because i didn't want to get into the habit of such sugary cereals for normal breakfast but i shouldn't have worried. natalie wouldn't eat it at all, and jenna took this energetic bite for a photo but then asked for a bagel, and caleb ate all the cereal and left the marshmellows lol 

and just for the record, i asked them if they wanted green eggs and ham and they all screamed no or made throw-up sounds ha ha

we all wore green shirts (jenna went through 3 outfits that day for various reasons so only two of her shirts were green and the other was white with green on it). i got out the book "the night before st patrick's day" that we got from who knows where, but forgot to read it lol and had a picnic lunch ending in a cookie to make it special =o]

for FHE treat that night we had my favorite green dessert- cinnamon graham cracker mint ice cream sandwiches! SO GOOD!! we had just enough ice cream left for everyone to get one thank goodness! the kids LOVED them and even kent approves of this tradition!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand fin. =o]