Saint Patty's Day

Whew-wee!  St. Patrick's Day was a busy one around here, but we still managed to squeeze in all our fun traditions.  I started a little early and put these rainbow treats in the girls' lunches on Friday:

On Saturday, Ashley and I started early at her District Fine Art's Festival.  Her choir had a performance and training session.  They performed a new song and a couple they had performed before.  I could really hear the improvement.  7:30 am is early for a Saturday but by going early, we didn't have to fight traffic and the crowds, or troll the parking lot and surrounding neighborhood for a rare parking space.  We were in and out, so maybe I should hope she always gets assigned the first peformance of the day.

We left the school and headed straight home so that Dave could rush Ashley to her engineering workshop at NIU.  She is still doing that twice a month and seems to be enjoying it.  So far she has made a flashlight and made a battery from fruit.  Next she is going to be programming her own computer game.  The Saturday workshops can be a bit of a challenge on a busy Saturday schedule but it's worth it, where else is she going to have these kinds of opportunities?

While Dave and Ash were at NIU, I took Paige to piano lessons then drove down to our church Stake Center for a Women's Conference.  There were some great mini-classes, a nice lunch, and a good chance to visit with friends.

After the conference, the family met up again, ran some errands, and worked in the yard.  I should add, that while on said errands Ashley went to Burger King so she could get the free fries with green ketchup (it was very green!)  We ended the day with our annual Irish-Amerian St. Patrick's Day dinner - corned beef and cabbage, along with a rainbow fruit platter and a brownie and mint ice cream layered dessert.  Yum!

And just because I thought it was really cute, but we didn't have enough meals in the day to actually eat it on St. Patrick's Day--we enjoyed a Papa Murphy's green shamrock pizza the next day.  I had to have it, so I bought it on Saturday and kept it in the fridge until we could eat it on Sunday.  It was pretty good!