March Date Night!!

So posting about St. Patricks day reminded me I still needed to post our
March Date Night!!

We went on a
BOOKSTORE DATE!!

Which was a great time, and nice to be inside
on such a rainy night!

Here's how the night went!!

We went to chapters and I unfolded a list of challenges,
and we decided on a time limit.
After each challenge we came back to sit and
reveal our choices to each other,
and we got some yummy hot chocolate after!!

Here's our list of chalenges :

I confess I found these on a wonderful blog called
LOVE ACTUALLY
where I got a lot of SUPER GREAT Ideas when
I was putting this book together for Christmas!

This was a new recipe that I had chosen I thought Shane would like. (Challenge set #1)

This was Shane's Joke that he found for me! (Also Challenge set #1)

Very Funny Dear!
p.s. this is not an announcement!

Oh don't you worry that Easter post is coming!!

St Patty's Day!

I Thought I had better post about St Patrick's Day
before Easter is really upon us!!

We had a hilarious St. Patrick's day!!
Not really action packed but lots of fun!
Starting with pipe cleaners!

Ms. A and I usually reserve our craftyness for while Ms. E is asleep

This time she wanted in on all the fun!!

Ms. A has a huge interest in the RAINBOW lately so our craft was simple!

Pots of gold at the end of the rainbow!
Thank You Pinterest!!

I thought they turned out AWESOME!!
(Daddy thought they were tasty too!)


Ms. E was persuaded to sit still for a bit
with her own little rainbow!

After that I got some things ready for our little St Patricks Day Party!!

I was hosting a THRIVE party.
(Freeze Dried food storage)
A friend of mine came and cooked some wonderful food for us!
Her blog looks so yummy!
www.readywiththrive.blogspot.ca

I'm excited to get over this little cold so that I can get
in the mood to try some new recipes!!

We were going to vote for the king and queen of green
and so Shane and the girls had some fun with the
kings scepter and the queen's crown that I found!!

Earlier in the month I had also found some awesome deals

on disposable green dishware, goblets, and even the cute canisters!!

Everyone who came got to eat from the pots of gold and
took home a lucky penny!!

This is my friend Mandy in the polka dots!
(not that Kristy isn't my friend!!)
Mandy was our master chef that night!!


She made green smoothies,
broccoli soup, coconut macaroons,
and some yummy punch.
(doesn't that make you hungry?)


The night was supposed to be kid free,
but this munchkin was not gonna have any of that!!

She wanted to stay up and drink grandma's smoothie!!

More awesome friends who came and had some fun with us!!


Towards the end of the night we all voted for
THE KING AND QUEEN OF GREEN!!

(my silly ballot box - post counting)

TADA!!! Here we are!!

We had such a nice night with friends and
there was lots of chocolate going around

as well as some cooking/food storage suggestions.

We discussed all kinds of foodie things like
good Vietnamese food in the city,
where to get good guacamole,
and where to get authentic Mexican food!!

Freezing bell peppers, and making our own flour tortilla's!!

All this fun also fit into one of my goals for the year,
getting a handle on this food storage thing!!
I think it was a total success!
(Stay tuned for updates when our order arrives)