St. Patrick's day is always a fun little holiday to use as an excuse to eat sugar for breakfast and conrned beef for dinner. The kids love these little holidays and I love trying to make them extra fun for them.
Marshmallows in pancakes actually turned out to be a delicious addition. Who would have thought?!
After catching Bruce red-handed picking all the marshmallows off the cake he gives me his typical "where did it go?!" Shrug. He cracks me up everyday. Ellie didn't find it nearly as humorous as I did.
Kenny is such a good brother to always play along with Bruce. Bruce loves using magic wands to make people jump or fall down.
We love celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday and reading every year with a fun little breakfast. Of course, we have to make our traditional cookies as well. Ellie felt like a superstar this year walking into her kindergarten class with the book cookies for everyone.
This picture cracks me up
Ellie loves the idea of green eggs with her ham but she sure hates eating them
Ellie picked up this Dr. Seuss t shirt from universal studios last year just for Dr. Seuss day because it reminded her of her book cookies.
It may look the same every year, but I think that's what the kids love about it
The kids both really want to buy Heelys because they seem to be the hot shoes at their schools right now. For the last month they have been planning and baking (well, Ellie has been baking as she wisely assigned Kenny to be in charge of lemonade). They were so excited the day of their big sale came. We set up shop out behind daddy's office building which was a great location! People were so generous. After a couple hours they came home with $91, which is more than halfway to their goal after tithing. They look forward to one more weekend of good sales to finish earning the money they need.
And a few more photos from their follow up weekend of sales to finish earning their money:
All in all they earned plenty of money for both pairs of Heelys and all their tithing with quite a bit leftover so the decided to buy Dylan a pair to surprise him when he gets here this summer and save the rest!
We love inviting friends over to decorate sugar cookies with us around Valentine's Day every year. This year was fun because our little set up was very reminiscent of the first year we hosted it in our little Malaga apartment. Apparently Ellie was very excited to help plan for it and bake with me this year because many adults we know came up to me to ask about how Ellie's tea party went afterward. She had gone around telling anyone and everyone who would listen all about it.
I love those little duo. I hope they always stay so close.
Same picture we took at our first Valentine sweets party three years ago.
Everything Valentine's is just so pretty
Big chocolate Oreo lips we made that were quickly devoured
Decorate two, eat one and repeat was Kenny's philosophy.
Bruce pretty much slept through the party, but was excited to find a table full of sugar when he woke up
The kids invited Felix and Carolina over who are a perfect brother sister match up for them. They all four play so well together.
Carolina was in heaven, as she repeatedly told us.
Mama hanging out in the background and daddy getting into some decorating himself
