Showing posts with label St. Patrick's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Patrick's Day. Show all posts

Monday, March 21, 2011

HAPPY St. Patrick's Day!!

I love green day! After a LONG and cold winter, I love all the green in my house! It means spring is coming and I am SO ready!!

Obviously we made shirts...




(How cute is this necklace?!? I have one too!! LOVE them! They are my new addiction!)

We made some teacher gifts.


We HAD to start the day off with Lucky Charms and a Green Smoothie!

Here is the recipe, as per several requests...
spinach (2 cups? Enough to fill the blender)
8 ounces plain yogurt
1 cup pear, peeled and diced
1 banana, peeled and chunked
1/4 cup honey
1 cup ice cube, crushed
6 green kiwi fruits


*Combine the spinach, yogurt, pears, banana and honey in a blender. Pulse until smooth and blended.
*Add ice cubes one at a time and process until smooth.
*Slice kiwifruit into halves and spoon fruit into the blender with the rest of the smoothie. Pulse until just blended.

We had yummy green snacks all day... pears, kiwis, guacamole (with lime chips, of course), spinach pops (froze the left over smoothie) and what was left of the Lucky Charms.

For dinner we had artichokes (son's request/pleading), spinach ravioli with pesto and sour melon slushies. I promise it tasted better then it looks.


I can just tell you how much I love watching my 4 year old dive into those artichokes!! She does great! I LOVE that my kids will try new foods ~ and 8 times out of 10, they LIKE it!!

For dessert... mint brownie pie ~ YUM!!!!



At our house we have made an arrangement with Mr. Leprechaun. He comes to visit, but doesn't play tricks. He leaves treats. Green ones. Today he "hid" the stash until Dad came home and we could go through it all together. What a nice Leprechaun!!



"I'm am so lucky to have what I've got
And if you reflect we've all got a lot.
So let's honor St. Paddy the whole day through
May luck find your path and no one pinch you!"

Happy GREEN Day!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

St. Patrick's Day

IT'S GREEN DAY!!

The kids woke up to their green gifts a-waiting.


Of course I HAD to get new green shirts, but this year I made the ones for the boys. I think they turned out pretty cool!! (I got the idea HERE. Who knew bleach could be so fun?!)



I knew Miss Diva would refuse to wear one, so I found a green one with pink on it for her.


They also got hooked up with LOTS of green treats and toys.

For breakfast we had Lucky Charms and green fruit salad (Green grapes, apples and kiwis).

The boys came home to spinach smoothie pops - I mean green popsicles (don't tell my kids the other name) for an after school snack. So yummy!



We had green tortellini with pesto, parsley garlic bread, spinach salad (with green peppers, green onions, sugar peas, avocado, cucumbers with green Ranch dressing and green juice for dinner. I did shake things up with dessert... Pistachio Almond ice cream, usually we have Lime sherbet.

I know, I am a wild one!

We had a very fun green day!