St. Patrick's Day 2014

Visit from Uncle Rob

We had a great visit from Rob last weekend. He joined us to cheer at Carter's soccer game and for a trip to the zoo. He drank and ate all the unnaturally green things I gave him. He taught Carter to play darts (inventing rules that put them on a level playing field) and lost gracefully at Monopoly.








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St. Paddy's Day

We enjoyed a lovely, green-themed, spring day today.

Thomas and Carter started the day with a 1 mile fun run

Then we tried to fly a kite, but there wasn't enough wind

So Carter put the weather to good use and played in the fountains

Then we had green dinner

And green dessert!

St. Patrick's Day

In lieu of making our own green food (ok, Eli making green food), we decided to catch a happy hour at the Irish pub down the street. Full but not too crowded, and a face painter to boot! Carter and his friend Maury got their faces painted, and they really enjoyed it. The final results were slightly unexpected, but the boys were the traditional St. Pat's Day Skeletons!

St. Patrick's Day

The chef , pasta-maker extraordinaire

Our little leprechaun

Dinner of homemade spinach pasta with green onion and Gorgonzola sauce, green wine and green milk!

March Holidays

Because Easter falls so early this year, we were able to celebrate two holidays this weekend - St. Patrick's Day and Easter. (Next weekend, Carter and I will be in Arkansas, and Thomas will be in Orlando watching the Braves' spring training, so this was our chance to do Easter eggs together.)

Park, Ashley, Anna and Angie came over to celebrate with us. Everyone was very accommodating (if not completely understanding) my compulsion to color all our beverages green (how else do you celebrate St. Patrick's Day?). The green iced coffees were, admittedly, a little strange. The funniest part of the afternoon was when Carter kept snatching the dyed eggs and trying to eat them. He was confused and disappointed when his teeth kept hitting shell. We did peel a couple for him, which he chowed down.