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St. Patrick's Day


Since Easter literally starts in just a few minutes I thought I better play a little catch up and at least post our St. Patrick's Day! (I'm realizing I'm pretty bad at this consistent blogging thing!) We had an awesome St. Patrick's Day this year! We got lucky and got to celebrate the holiday with doing little things all week long, starting with going to a St. Patrick's Day party with friends. That party really fueled Piper's excitement for the holiday this year. She even remembered going on a hunt for a leprechaun at the end of the rainbow that we had done last year with her Joy School friends, and kept asking if that was going to happen again this year. Three year old Piper is so fun! I love that she is remembering things and that she is starting to get so excited for special days!


Piper had her outfit picked out for St. Patrick's Day a week early! I didn't realize it until she pointed it out to me but she has no green shirts! Poor girl! She adapted easily though because she picked out her gold dot shirt and a rainbow necklace to wear "so she would attract Leprechauns!" We even attempted a 4 leaf clover in her hair for preschool! Don't look to closely though because I had no idea what I was doing and we ended up taking it out after school followed by asking one of our dance friends for advice on how to make it better for next year. 




While Piper was at Preschool, I went to work laying out our rainbow. I'm pretty sure I will do this with my kids every year until it stops working because it literally takes 10 minutes to set up which is a dream. Piper was thrilled when we came out of the garage! She started yelling "shes' here, shes' here!" followed by covering her mouth because she needed to be sneaky to catch her! (Our Leprechaun is a girl apparently... named Glitter!) 



Piper was hilarious to watch! I kept waiting for her to just cheat and run around to the ends of all the steamers, but she didn't! She literally "snuck" every single color! She even kept hearing noises stopping to listen! I was dying! At the end of each color she would find a couple gold coins or a lucky clover, which kept her motivated. Blue being her favorite color was saved for last and had her Leprechaun gift at the end! I could have listened to her saying, "Oh man! Glitter is so sneaky, she got away again" forever!





Hudson was not impressed that the Leprechaun left him glitter stickers and immediately dropped them to the ground, but he held true to his little Hudson self and was soooo excited for candy!


Piper was on this Leprechaun kick for awhile, the next day when I had to go to work Piper insisted that she needed to make a Leprechaun trap with grandma! She asked for a box, paper, ribbon, and grabbed a few other things out of my craft room including stealing some rainbows! My favorite part about it was that I know Leprechaun traps and shoe boxes are a thing... but this girl came up with it ALL by herself, with her own layout for exactly how she wanted it. She is my little right brained child and I love it! Glitter however, out smarted Piper since her box turned up empty, but that didn't get our little Leprechaun hunter down because she informed us that next year she is going to use a net! 


Until next year you sneaky little Leprechaun!
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SPRING FEVER


According to Merriam Webster, Spring Fever is "a feeling of wanting to go outdoors and do things because spring is coming and the weather is getting warmer". Count that as a Ã¼ for all of us in my family! Spring some how has a way of playing with my heart as it gets warmer, we all get excited to spend a miraculous day or even a week outdoors and then the weather turns, and it gets cold again. My family and I are beyond ready for the permanence of warm weather, followed by the consistency of being able to get outdoors and enjoy some well needed sunshine and not freeze our fingers and toes off. With the local forecast telling us that we will once again be having some colder days, we decided to take a little drive to Tibble Fork Reservoir and have what Piper calls a "family adventure", but really it's just an short outing to mentally prepare us for a few more "playing indoor days".


There was still quite a bit of snow up the canyon, but with no winds and the sun shining it was perfect light jacket weather. I don't know why but it always amazes me how different both my kids are. Piper always leads the way! we call her our little "trail leader", and Hudson just slowly follows along, but Piper is terrified of everything that moves of makes a noise and Hudson just jumps right into what ever heads his way. So, of course when we reached the water Hudson loved to throw rocks and make splashes, and Piper decided rocks were for collecting, rather than throwing, but they did both agree that rocks were the highlight of our outing! 





We all left with with muddy shoes, wet clothes and in Piper's case, very full pockets. With a new found, and well overdue sense of peace and readiness, we headed home to start a new week. So, bring it on Mother Nature, we are ready for what ever weather you decided to bring our way this week!
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DR. SEUSS'S BIRTHDAY!


In some attempts to be a more fun mom and make ordinary days be a little more entertaining, Josh and I decided to celebrate Dr. Seuss's Birthday with the kids. His birthday is March 2nd, and to be completely honest I didn't know this was even a day to know until spending the afternoon with a friend and she shared that they celebrate it every year. This gave me two days to come up with something to do in order to make the day special, but I also just wanted to keep it so simple! I got on Silhouette and typed in Dr. Seuss hoping that someone out there had already made something that I could just use, and to my surprise my sweet friend Amy Robison had the three cutest Dr. Seuss die cuts on there! Hallelujah!



Amy had made the Cat and the Hat's Stripe Hat, Thing 1 & Thing 2's Hair along with a Fish Bowl! So dang cute! We started our afternoon by watching an episode of The Cat and the Hat on Netflix while Piper wore her official Cat and the Hat striped hat. Afterwards, they went outside and played in their hats for hours. It was darling. Piper is known for asking grandma or I to color her blue so she can be like a mermaid, so I thought she would love being a "thing" too. Turns out that it was a boys hair do, so she went right back to be in charge with her tall top hat! Hudson however, walked around with blue hair like it was his baby job!



When Josh got home from work we read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss, and then told the kids that we had a surprise for them! Josh went into the garage and came out with a fish for each of them! They were both beyond thrilled! I still have a running bet with Josh that the fish die from our children and not from natural causes, but their whole day was made!




Piper then went on a walk around the neighborhood to show off her new pet fish that the Cat and the Hat gave her! She was so proud!


After Piper got back and we had rescued Hudson's bag from being dropped! We made red and 'white' pancakes so every one could build their own Cat and the Hat striped hat. I was a little worried this would be a job that my children: A. wouldn't understand or B. wouldn't eat, especially since we made them red waffles on Valentines Day that they didn't touch... but to my surprise Piper was thrilled! She must be just like her mama and have a love for all things little because she devoured her pancakes!


On top of all that we had also made a short little garland to hand up in the living room consisting of the three die cuts Silhouette had available... the hat and the crazy hair come with strips to make them hats, so I just deleted those and shrunk the shapes to make the garland. I swear a garland can make any day feel special!



We ended the night by reading some more books by Dr. Seuss and then put the kids to bed. It was a beautiful, simple, successfully celebrated day, and I truly am grateful to Dr. Seuss for the adorable stories we get to fill our children's heads with!
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