Their so tricky!!

Well the leprachauns came to our house again on St. Paddy's Day. Those tricky little suckers! They made a mess of our house - and the kids faces! Good thing they left a basket full of fun surprises for the kiddos. Ya know, if you leave a basket under the light of the moon, they are said to fill it with treasures - the only problem is they hide it!! Unbeknowest to them though, they leave a little trail of green to the hiding spot. The children anticipate St. Paddy's day almost as much as Christmas. They LOVE this little tradition.

Those little stinkers painted the kids faces! They went to school looking like this - and thought they were SuPEr CoOL of course.

Cole always leaves a trap for them. They seem to outwit him everytime. This time, they sucked the popsicle juice right from the wrapper!!
I drank some of the punch shown below. Apparently its only for kids. I started to get all itchy and hot and when I took my socks off..... LOOK WHAT HAPPENED!


They left this trail of rainbow yarn too. It led to little tiny pots of gold (rolos).




They found their surprise in the OVEN of all places ;)
Made rainbow cupcakes for our little preschool Paddy's day party.

Disney on Ice

For Ariah's Birthday, we gave her Disney on Ice tickets for the family. It was perfect since the show was the day after her birthday. We haven't been for a few years, so it was so much fun to see it. It helped the seats were semi-good too.

OH PS - on the way out we found a nice little ticket on our car!!! For expired registration!! It expired end of February, and this was March 9! What ever happened to a 30 day grace period - apparently SLC parking ticketers don't know about those kinds of things - and to top it off, the stickers were waiting in the mail (that I hadn't checked yet that day) when we got home.

It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife :(

Let's Have a Soiree' (That's a Fancy Word For Party!!)

My fancy little Ariah is turning FOUR!! She is such a sweet little girly girl - that loves to be fancy everyday - so what better party for her than FANCY NANCY!!

My mom made our family this fun little birthday wreath. I think I will display it the week we are having a birthday in our home. LOVE IT!!

Miss Ariah's entrance to her FANCY NANCY PARTY!!

This is the invitation. The flower is a removable bow for hair. The girls were to come in their fanciest party attire.

When they arrived, they colored fancy nancy pages, we then made bracelets and painted sparkly faces.

After face painting, the girls got to go "shopping". They each got to shop for a feather boa, crown, ribbon wand, candy and party poppers. Afterwards, we had a dance party with lots of feathers flying - what cute little fancy preschoolers :)

We made icecream sundaes with fun toppings, and ate our fancy cupcakes.

Ariah loved her gifts! Birthdays are the best.

We had her friend party on Saturday, and her real birthday was on Tuesday. Our traditional bust out is always something they look forward too. Before she went to sleep the night before, she kept asking me when I "was going to paper her door up."

Lots of petshops. That was the request this birthday - and a unicorn pillow pet. (Very similar to Ambra's request for her bday if you remember - she loves to copy her big sister ;)

...and getting ready for the big family dinner party.

Made these cute little take home favors for the fam.

Grandma Wade came from Idaho.

Uncle Ethan, Uncle Josh and Aunt Becca, Aunt Jill and cousins Joshua and Emma came.

We had a blast partying for days. Thanks to all who came and loved my fancy little Ariah. We love her so much, and she is such a sweet light in our family. How on earth did we ever get along with her?