St. Patricks Day

It has been hard getting in to the past couple of holidays because all of our decorations are still in boxes in the garage. St. Patrick's Day snuck up on me this year. In the morning I was reading on Facebook about all the fun stuff other people did for their kids in the morning. Leprechauns left stuff in their shoes, turned their breakfasts green, left footprints all over the house, and many other fun things. So after realizing how lame I was, I decided to throw together some fun stuff while the kids were napping. Brayden had a fun party at school, and it happened to be the day he was the special leader. Needless to say he had a fun day at preschool. While he was gone, I started telling Brooklyn that a leprechaun was going to come while she was asleep and leave her a treasure. Big mistake. For some reason she became terrified that the leprechaun was going to eat her. So she wouldn't leave my side the rest of the morning. Here is the little photo shoot I had after lunch:
Finally the kids went down for their naps and I pulled out a bunch of leftover shamrocks I had from 5 yrs ago. I hurried and threw together a little treasure hunt for the kids. They were super excited when they woke up, as long as I didn't mention the leprechaun. We tried to focus on the treasure hunt. I hid shamrocks around the house that had clues on them. Here the kids are at the beginning:

One of the clues was found inside the dryer. We had told the kids that everything the leprechaun touched turned green. Brayden was fascinated with the green laundry that the leprechaun had touched:

I loved watching the kids run from clue to clue as they figured out wehre to go:

I love Brooklyn's face as she found a clue on the green milk. Brayden ended up drinking it all as Brooklyn wasn't a fan.

Their treasure was waiting for them inside the Dora tent. They were thrilled to get Mike 'N Ikes along with green Fruit by the Foots and green candy canes (yes...stuff I found in the cupboard.)

Here the kids are after they put all their shamrocks on the wall. Happy St. Patricks Day kids!!!

On a side note, after naps the kids got some marshmallows and raisins for their snack. I was on the computer not paying attention when I turned around and found this. Brooklyn had been wearing my shoes and for some reason decided it would be fun to eat her snack out of my shoes. Yes...her raisins and marshmallows are inside those shoes. Gross!