St. Patty's Day

I love that St. Patrick's Day fell on a weekend this year. I was able to do a lot of really fun things.

I made a few of my mom's amazing Irish Soda breads for home and work. I literally eat them for breakfast the whole week that it is in the house! I love the crunchy bits.

I had my cub scout Den meeting scheduled on St. Patrick's Day so I made one healthy and one treat for snack time. I found tons of ideas on Pinterest as usual! I had picked up the St. Patrick's Day picks in my travels some where.

Not only were they super green and adorable but the Lucky Charms on the cup cakes were AMAZING!

These green fruit skewers were super easy I threw them together in a few minutes!

I bought these ridiculous mustaches for the Cub Scouts to wear as well as some silly Irish saying pins. Seriously the pins were 8 for $1 at the Christmas Tree Stores and the boys loved them! 

  

Talk about cute!

The piece de resistance was the slow cooker corn beef that was cooking all day. The house smelled amazing all day.  I halved the recipe but we still had a ton enough for Brett to have leftovers for lunch! This is pictured on a turkey platter.

 You can find all of the recipes on my St Patrick's Day Pinterest page.

Happy pinning!

Happy Valentines Day!

This year thanks to Pinterest not only did we find our Valentine's Day idea's we were also able to download the labels from the Pinterest sources!

Joshua chose the "I dig you" shovels and M&M's since he loves M&M's. 

I found the shovels on e-bay from a made in the USA source that are all BPA free and were only $1 a piece with free shipping! M&M's were on sale at A & P for $3 a bag and we used 3 bags.

The "I dig you" idea was found on Pinterest and linked to the Fry Family Blog where she graciously offered a free PDF for the tags! Thank you! Can you believe that I had the exact bags leftover from last year!

Jacob is more into non chocolate candies so he chose these cuties. I got the Ring Pops in a box of 22 in Walgreens for $6 and change and the conversation heart pop-ups in Walmart were 6 for .99!

 

Jacob's Pop Quiz idea was also found on Pinterest and it linked us to the Over the big Moon blog with another fabulous free PDF!

Both boys helped assemble them, signed their names, and addressed the back side of the labels.

At work I am on a social committee and for Valentines day I ordered these adorable cupcake boxes from Oriental Trading for $3.99 a dozen and then ordered homemade like cupcakes from the Rye Country Store $1.50 each (they are delish).

How cute are these? The message reads "We hope your Valentines Day is Sweet!"

This morning I made the boys some heart pancakes and sent them off to school in their home made valentine shirts (pic to come later!)

 

Happy Valentine's Day!

Transformer Party

Jacob turned 7 in November and I have been so busy since that I have not gotten the chance to post his fabulous Transformers party! We had a special  entertainer from the Mad Scientist visit us who put on a show that the kids absolutely loved!

I made all of the crafts and desserts myself and purchased most of the table decor at Walmart.

Below is a shot of the dessert and favor table.

I made this banner from card stock and drew on Transformer lettering spelling Jacob!

Joshua was super excited about the cupcakes!

 

  

I made this cute sign in Microsoft publisher and got a cheap frame from Walmart to hold it.

I made the toppers with two different paper punches and glued them onto a toothpick...

Jacob ready to blow out the candles!

The main favors were wrapped books that were about science experiments. 

I made these awesome candy pops from a mold I got for around $2 on Amazon...

The lit candles...

 Power puff!

The frosting, which I colored myself with Wilton gel coloring, turned EVERYONES mouths blue even Gigi's!

While the kids were upstairs having dessert the Science guy set up his lab in an unfinished portion of our basement.

He explained about doing experiments...

The kids were enthralled...

The kids all got to make their own gross green slime which they got to take home...

Dry ice and dish soap created a super fun dry shampoo that freaked the kids out!

  

Jacob got dumped on the most as the party host!

Dry ice in a bucket of water and the room filled up with spooky smoke!

 My niece wanted to jump into the bucket!

 Before the Science guy had arrived the kids had pizza on some rented tables and chairs that I set up in the same room as the Science guy show.

I made this pretty Optimus Prime punch that the kids did not love the taste of the Cranberry juice (oh well can't win em all)..

My niece...

 Some of the kids did not want to leave at the end of the party because they had so much fun. Jacob was thrilled to have his first at home party. Because it is in the colder weather we usually have his party out at a party place. 

Until next time! 

Joanne

Apples and pumpkins

This weekend we made our annual pilgrimage for cider donuts, apples, and pumpkins at our local orchard Wilkins Fruit and Fir Farm.

Yummo fresh made Cider donuts, you can watch them being made.

Jacob was the only one to eat just one!

 

Jacob told me that it wouldn't feel like fall if we didn't go. They like jumping off of this big haystack that is always there.

 Since it was the last weekend for apple picking there was no minimum so we just picked a small amount. Joshua is such a good helper he carried the bag.

 I couldn't get Jacob to stop making this goofy face!

I let the boys each get their own little pumpkin.

 Jacob actually thought his was heavy, Joshua carried his all the way to the car...

I found this beauty for the main pumpkin.I might be carving a raccoon this year in honor of the raccoons that kept me up all night on our first camp out last weekend.

Jacob was impressed with the Fred Flintstone log car...

Joshua was in heaven up on this tractor...

 

My little golden boy picking golden apples...

 Jacob said "I am going to hold this one like a little chick"...

 Until next year...

 

I love the fall!