St. Patrick's Day Playdate

On St. Patrick's Day we had another wonderful playdate at Deanna's! The kids had a blast, of course!!! We started off the morning by doing lots of playing in Kate and Gabe's fabulous back yard!

Here's Emma enjoying the playhouse! She must get her domestication from her mommy ;)

Here's the host himself about to take a slide down the sliding board! Weeee!

And then it was time for our green lunch! We had green grits, green eggs, green pancakes, green fruit, green dip, green juice boxes, green everything! It was so much fun!

And here's Brycie so very excited about her green paint! Deanna gave each of the kids their own smock with their names embroidered on them! It was such a sweet and cute surprise! And boy did they come in handy when it was time to paint the shamrocks!

Here's Emma thinking "I wonder if anyone will notice if I paint the fence?!"

Ava is such a great artist she doesn't even have to look at her canvas! Beautiful, Ava!

Emma's showing me the paint on her finger. 3.5 seconds after I snapped this shot that green paint went directly in her hair. She was covered! But she didn't get a drop on her clothes thanks to the smock! Maybe next time we should have her wear a hairnet!

Mardi Gras

A few weeks ago I decided to take my mom, my sister Candi, and Emma to downtown St. Mary's to attend the (family-friendly) Mardi Gras parade. It was much better than I originally expected! Here's just one of the many cool floats:


It was a beautiful day and it was incredibly crowded for the tiny town of St. Mary's, but we had a blast! Emma was totally mesmerized by the floats, dogs, and people throwing candy and beads at her!

Emma and her Aunt Can-Can watching the parade. We were so glad to have her, Tony, and "Gah-Gah" Rita in town!

She finally decided to get brave and get down to wave at the people and say "Hi!"

Here she is mid-wave! Hoping for more candy and beads, I'm sure!