Earth Day Celebration

It was about time for another party for us, so we had a fun little Earth Day celebration and luncheon after church today with a few friends from our ward. The kids helped me make the decorations all week. Their favorite part was painting the globe (along with the table and their clothes). 

Ellie has been walking around all day singing 'happy birthday' because the whole Earth Day/Birthday thing seems to be a little confusing to her. Either way, she was excited for an excuse to party

The party got two thumbs up from Kenny. I love how much fun he makes our lives.

I may have had a little too much fun planning all the details. Joey was awesome and got all these great shots for me while I was setting the lunch up.

 Kenny was super excited to plant his little cilantro seeds. Call me crazy for setting the kids free with a giant bag of dirt in the house, but our little party got rained out (like everything else this weekend) so we had to hang out inside. We made little eggshell cups to plant the seeds in. It's actually a pretty cool thing I read about online... you can plant the eggshell directly in the ground and it's supposed to dissolve into natural fertilizer.

Ellie was more interested in playing the dirt than anything, but she managed to plant a few seeds!

Time to sit back and wait for some cilantro to grow.

*Party inspiration and printables come from One Charming Party. Love those party planners over there!

St. Patrick's Day ideas

Kenny was a little hesitant about the idea of little green men running around his house the night of St. Patrick's Days so he came up with a spell to protect himself if necessary: "Be gone, leprechaun!". Luckily we only had nice leprechauns running around our house and he never had to put his spell to use.

The leprechauns left behind lots of yummy treats, even if they did play a few tricks on us first!

Those tricky leprechauns turned everything liquid in our house GREEN, left behind lots of little green footprints and even painted the kids nails green while they were snoozing away!

Kenny felt pretty cool wearing his leprechaun shirt around.

The leprechauns left lots of little pots of gold behind this year for the kids to find as they followed their footprints around the house.

Everything is just so much fun to celebrate when you have little kids around getting excited about it! 

Later that night we took the kids to see the new Dr. Seuss movie, The Lorax. We thought it was a cute little show and Kenny loved it. They definitely got the message this time around. When we walked out of the theater, Kenny turned to me and said, "I want to be the Lorax, I speak for the trees. Now, how do I go plant a tree?". At least it's a good message to teach them to love our trees!