St. Patrick's Day

Today was our big party! What an exciting day. I would say that everyone had a great time.

Makayla gave me the greatest compliment she's ever given me "I bet all kids wish they had a mom like you - you always throw such cool parties, do fun things, and you are pretty" (I'm pretty sure there were a few other compliments in there, but she pretty much made my day - and let me know all my time, energy, effort and money was well worth it).

Josiah's favorite part was hitting the pinata. It was hilarious watching the kids hit it. Miss Sara brought a TON of awesome goodies for it. I was shocked that Jeremiah didn't want to have a million turns - he was content to sit on the rock wall with Karissa eating a sucker (at one point I caught him with 2 - yes eating them both at the same time - he doesn't get them often, and since mommy was busy he totally took advantage of it). Karissa said she was "too shy" to hit the pinata and she just watched everyone. Makayla loaded up on the goodies (what a surprise) and we had to share hers with a few other kiddos...

The kids really enjoyed breaking the treasure rocks. There were lots to go around, so everyone got to break open a few.

The colored rice with buried treasure was a real hit too - surprisingly it was the girls who played in their most. Of course Jeremiah made a huge mess with it.

The kids enjoyed decorating their paper plates, but I don't know if they actually hit the balloons with them or not... it was fun either way.

After the party we got the food put up, and then the kids laid down for a rest (Jeremiah's taking a good nap). I cleaned up the rest of the stuff. Josiah has been begging me for months to let him mop... and for some reason I haven't (probably due to my perfectionism and thinking things have to be done MY way) let him. I decided he could today (since I had just mopped last night) and what do you know, but he actually did a great job.... we might not be able to walk on the floors for awhile... but he thought it was fun!

Hopefully soon I'll be able to post pictures... my computer has a virus or something. Pray that Joey can get rid of the virus and save all of my files and things. I'm kind of scared.