St. Patty's Day 2012

I know this is late, but we have been busy and/or fighting seasonal allergies.  Last week friday I hosted a play date for our MOPS group and had the theme of St. Patty's Day.  We had 7 kids running around and having a blast! I think Alohi had the most fun since friends came to her new house.  Po'okela slept through most of it, but when he was awake he took it all in.  I had ever intention of taking pictures of that day, but some how forgot with just visiting with other moms.  I did get pictures of the things I made for the party. I got most of the ideas from pinterest!  Here's some of the goodies Alohi and I made.

 

I had originally planned on having all of these above, but a bag of M&M's only has so many green ones, which I then moved on to the brown ones and still ran out of M&M's, so I did this instead.  I liked it much better than the M&M ones!  And if you look carefully I made a few 4 leafed clovers too!

I cut the tops off a green pepper to use as a stamp to make more clovers.  This was Alohi's. I think they turned out pretty good. I know I could have drawn stems on them, but next year!

I made enough of these for each kid to have as a snack (I won't use as much pudding next time).  At the bottom of each cup there was a "gold coin" (rolo candy) that was a special treat for each kid.

The weather was nice and wanted to go on a rainbow search for a pot of gold, but we had two babies so we didn't do that part of the day. Instead at the end of the party each kid got a baggie of "gold" (more rolos') and a quarter.

Over all I thought it was a fun time for the kids. There are things I will do again and things I will change the next time we have a play date at our house.

On the actually St. Patty's Day we went to Brady's 1st Birthday party! Here's a picture of the Alohi and Po'okela dressed in their green wear (since I didn't get any pictures of them on the actual day of our playmate).