Hitting the Pool

This was Maren's first time swimming. I'd say she enjoyed it.

Unfortunately we had to leave a little early. If there is a lesson to be learned here I would say it's 'don't run away fom your parents when they ask you to come here'. Embrie was running away from her daddy when she got hurt. She decided to run right to the bottom of the slide and someone else just happened to be coming down and in a blur of confusion this happend.



You know, this poor tooth is doomed to die. It's been shoved up into her gums once, it was chipped shortly after that in another incident. And pretty much anytime she gets a mouth injury it's in this same place. The x-rays for this left front tooth look a little iffy, the dentist says we'll just have to wait and see what happens when the permenant tooth grows in. Obviously the lip doesn't escape these fights either. For now all we know is that it hurts.

Our Irish Holiday

You'd have thought it was Christmas the way these kids were looking forward to St. Patrick's Day! Garrett came running in my room in the morning saying, "they really did mom! they really did! the Leprechauns were here!"

those tricky creatures walked on our mirrors, turned our toilet water green...

turned our pictures crooked ....


messed with our chairs, some were upside down and some were upstairs...



and they must have been playing kickball or soccer with our balloons...
It was really cute when they started picking out every little thing out of place and suggesting that it must have been the leprechauns.

but for all that trouble thank goodness they left a good surprise too!



arrows of magic dust lead the way

We celebrated by wearing a bunch of green of course, we read some leprechaun books, played green bingo, and (the night before) we watched 'Darby O'Gill and the Little People'. (LOVE! he he)

We had a green dinner of grapes, cucumbers, kiwi's and then meat and cheese quessdilla's dipped in green ranch(not really irish) we had cream soda in green glasses. --to which I might wonder why I went to so much work, my kids were nervous about the green ranch, said they didn't like the quesadillas, cucumbers, or cream soda... sigh! go figure--

then we had green dessert Pistacho pudding with grahm cracker -Embrie and Brad didn't like that either-

Why go all out for St. Patrick's day? Callahan is an Irish name after all!
ha ha just for fun. Its actually a holiday that I don't quite understand. I know that it is for St. Patrick who helped the cause of Christianity in Ireland and 'chased out Paeganism' so to speak. And that the shamrock symbolizes the Holy Trinity. However I am not sure where all the rest comes into that. But we had fun with it and I think we'll continue to do so but I may not go to so much effort with the food next time . . .

Lucky Boy

Garrett also had a St. Patrick's Day Party with friends.

They had a green lunch, played games and went on a treasure hunt left for them by a sneaky leprechaun.

Garrett had to attend the party alone since his sisters were sick, or I would have more pictures. But he had a great time. He'd been looking forward to it all week.

Lucky Girl

Embrie had a St. Patrick's Day Party with friends!

our little leprechauns

reading a story about using objects you have to help a leprechaun make his rainbow.

Treasure hunt to make a rainbow of our own

enjoying the spoils!

so lucky to have such great friends!

after my own heart

Saw this shirt awhile ago had to get it for my little girl!

Will she be as big of a fan as I am? Only time will tell.