Happy St. Patrick's Day (2011)

For the "small" holidays, I always like doing simple things for the boys,

but this year with the house being in such a disaray I wasn't sure what I was going to do.

So I quickly threw something together...

I went to the store and bought "gold" candies..

Found 2 similiar containers..put a sheet of green paper into the jar

and stuffed them with the candies...

It made for a nice "goodie surprise" for the boys...

I made a quick pasta dish and added some precooked chicken and cooked it in the electric pan

(the joys of not having a stove ha ha)

Added some green food coloring..

Bought some green punch..

added a green candle to the table and green table cloth and called it

St. Patty's Day!

 The pasta dish came out yum-o!

(ignore the background mess, with everything going on these types of messes are everywhere in our home!)

To end the dinner we made our own

"shamrock shakes"

Carter mentioned that we didn't have whip cream to top it off..

well as luck would have it...I had heavy cream in the fridge!

Yay for recipes that don't use the whole carton :)

So our St. Patty's day was a little fun and a little special..I hope yours was

full of lots of green and maybe even some gold if you were lucky :)

We Spent St. Patty's Day...Celebrating Like A Rock Star!

For St. Patty's Day this year, a friend of ours won

a radio contest called "Party Like a Rock Star".

He got to pick 8 people including himself to

get picked up by a limo, get taken to

dinner at Houlihans Restraunt, at which they gave him a

$200 gift certificate to eat off of, and also got to go to a

concert put on by GREAT WHITE!!

I think this is the best St. Patty's Day Dan and I have ever had together!!!

We had ALOT of fun!!

And the food was FANTASTIC!!!

AND.....What isn't good about getting a free ride in a Hummer Limo!!!

Kim Lyle and Bobby inside the limo.

You can see Lyle checking out the ride!

Down the hatch!! $6 Bucks a SHOT!!!!!!

Holy Mackeral.

Glad Bobby got that gift card lol!!

This was the opening band for Great White.

Can't remember this name, but they are darn good!!

AND NOW..THE PICS OF GREAT WHITE!!

This was after the concert in the limo on the way home.

Bobby, Dan, Charlette and Nate

We ALL had a great time but most of us were pretty pooped!!

One last photo of the "ride". Time to say good bye...our night of being a rock star has ended..

*SOB*

It was a GREAT evening!!!