Happy St Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day – Celebrating the Green

St. Patrick is believed to have driven the snakes from Ireland. Once a pagan himself, St. Patrick is one of Christianity's most widely known figures.
The modern secular holiday is based on the original Christian saint's feast day also thought to be the date of the saint's death. In 1737, Irish immigrants to the United States began observing the holiday publicly in Boston and held the first St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City in 1766.

Today, the tradition continues with people from all walks and heritages by wearing green, eating Irish food, and attending parades. St. Patrick's Day is bursting with folklore; from the shamrock to the leprechaun and to pinching those that are not wearing green.

I love this holiday which I believe stems from my childhood. I have memories of Green Pancakes and other breakfast foods, including finding the gallon of milk in the fridge turned green. Since my birthday is quite close then I also had a few birthday cakes as a child with a leprechaun and gold choc coins decorated on them.

I made Green Eggs from Deceptively Delicious...but they weren't very deceptive and were a lil too strong so they were quickly discarded. :) There's always the t-shirts, cookies and artwork to be done.

You can't see but this is the affect of green sprinkles on a sugar cookie

I'd like to wish my Sweet Mother and Father-in-law a Happy Anniversary! I think the Luck of the Irish may have been with them...as they have survived raising their 8 children and are now on to enjoying the stories of our own trial. We love you Mome & Dad!

The Payne Family 2007

(missing Michael's family, Elle, Jennifer, Steven & their families)

Sonia & Don Payne

This last weekend I was surprised and saddened by my release at church as the Beehive teacher. Of course they don't release you unless they have plans to put you somewhere else so they asked me to help teach...the nursery. Obviously...or maybe not so obvious but I do believe that the Lord either thinks I need to see what it's like to have more than 2 kids and that 2 isn't too bad. :) or maybe since I couldn't "control" or demand respect from 12 yr old girls that I'll be starting with 18 mo-3 yr old kids. Either way you look at it I think it will be good experience and I'm actually quite excited despite being sad to leave the Young Women's.

We went to the Old Cannery to find the Easter Bunny but found these cute Rocking Horses instead.

We'll have to go back to visit them as the girls loved them

The girls are almost over their colds. Tyler has surprised me by starting to pick up on the sign language we have been using. Sometimes it sounds like she's actually even trying to say the words she's signing, ie.. "More Please" and "all done". She started giving High 5's this morning which was fun. We found out that McKenna's Nursery teacher Sis Whitemarsh is her new Sunbeams teacher which we are very excited about! McKenna got to go shopping with Mommy for groceries on Saturday and was a very good girl and she got a new Toothbrush that she loves! It's a Hello Kitty motorized toothbrush and I was surprised to see that she loved using it...in her mouth. She usually doesn't like motorized stuff.