Well this was our 4th year of doing Green Day and let me tell you it just gets more and more fun every year! As a kid this was never a favorite Holiday at our house, see today was the 35th anniversary of my Grandma Toni's passing. Thankfully 4 years ago (ironically the year I was pregnant with Toni) this became a new tradition and one I now plan and get excited for all year long. That is just one of many ways my grandmother is always with us!
This year the party was extra big and longer!
My sister and niece and nephew were able to join us because it was on a Sunday this year. Then she was literally leaving and my old neighbor pulled up with her boys and bags of fun and the second party got started.
We started early this morning. 7:30 kids were up and all I had was the table cloth on. Waylon was putting out all the plates and cups for us when I walked down stairs. Luckily I remembered to hide the donuts last night or else I would have walked down to them eating them all!
We could not find super cute donuts but were able to find chocolate donut holes that were covered in rainbow sprinkles. Score-Just as fun! We also had green cinnamon rolls, but those were not a big hit this year and it was too much with the other treats! My Bad. No worries there was also some green milk and grapes too.
Here is my very well dressed niece. Her outfit is just too cute as is she.
Some of our fun throughout the day included
of course Skittles and Lucky Charms.
Some fun party hats and necklaces were also part of fun for the day.
We even made bracelets for fun.
Then my sister and I did a project for the family with the kids. Thanks to Pinterest we took each of the kids hands and painted it green then placed them all on the paper to make a four leaf clover. It started of easy and then got really hard with the 6 month old. Yucky!
Uhh and then there was Emma... So hard to do, but then all she wanted to do was make a fist and it was so hard to keep her in the right position. Not to mention getting any paint on that super cute outfit.
Then we all sat down for lunch and waited for Ahna and the kids to call for FaceTime!
Let me just say I LOVE my I PAD because of face time. I feel like I get to see Ahna a lot more and it is so nice that the kids can see each other like this. THANK YOU whomever invented this!!
Here is the final Clover Projects.
Then it was time for Amy, Jackson and Jason to come over.
Toni actually wanted to get into the picture too. I can't believe how fast all these kids are growing up!
Then the scavenger hunts began. In the past we have always hidden shamrocks throughout the house and then next room clue was a picture of that room on the back. Well we had to change it up this year, because we are not in the same house and we won't be here long enough to make anything permanent. So we numbered the rooms in a crazy order 1-8 and then hid a shamrock in that room with a coin attached to it. Each child took a turn finding the next clue. It is always fun but gets competitive.
The last one is always outside and they have yet to figure out that they ALL get the prize and they ALL get the same stuff. Oh well I guess it is a boy thing because Toni just hangs back.
Such a beautiful day out today. No jackets it was WARM! So we stayed outside the rest of the time and hung out together.
This was a really fun day, and the best part is it is the beginning of Spring Break! So here is to a super fun week and the start up of more blogs, I HOPE???
Happy Green Day 2013
