i {heart} st patricks day.

you probably didn't know i really really love st patrick's day.

and that would be ok, because not a lot of people really really love it.

but 15 years from now, 16-year-old Carly is going to open the fridge and roll her eyes when she sees a gallon of green milk.

it's just the perfect day to go over-the-top on a holiday that is otherwise insignificant.

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The sun came.

It was warm-esque today.

I'm a little shocked.

We made it through the meat of our first Michigan winter.

And it wasn't that bad.

Pretty much the same as an Idaho winter.

Go, us.

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So we started off our green day with a trip to the park with friends.

Carly is slightly obsessed with the park.

Slides in particular, though she does enjoy the swing.

In fact, yesterday she learned "schving!".

[greened out. including the green dishtowel]

["schving!"]

The park we went to had a little kids play thingy (what are those things called?), and a play thingy for bigger kids. It took Carly about 10 minutes on the little kids one to decide it was lame-o and head over to the big one. The big one had these slides what were so steep, I was kind of afraid to go down them. ha! But Carly went down no fear. She started to say "weeee!" but it was so steep it kind of took her breath away. Hilarious. She went over and over again. Thrill-seeker.

But man, slides these days. They were this softish plastic and had grooves at the end to slow you down. Remember when we were kids and would go cruising down hot metal slides, fly off the bottom, and hit the back of our heads on the bottom? Today's slides are definitely an upgrade.

Holy cow that was a lot of talking about slides.

[the tip top of mount crumpet]

[girl LOVES the park.]

[chilling with tennyson.]

[lizzie pushing carly round and round.]

Yay for St Patrick's Day!

After lunch and nap, we headed back into the sunshine.

We walked to our small nearby park, where there was more sliding and swinging.

[this time hippo got to come to the park.]

For dinner we had corned beef and cabbage.

I had it on St Patrick's Day growing up.

Its been a while, though.

Two years ago, I pulled an all nighter on St Patrick's day to finish my class to graduate on time. The next day we saw Carly and found out she was a girl.

Maybe that's one reason St Patrick's Day holds a special place in my heart.

Last year Chris just shot down corned beef and cabbage all together.

But this year I revived it.

Its a good once-a-year meal.

And boy was it de-lish.

[enjoying a st patrick's day sugar cookie.

i will be finding shamrock-shaped sprinkles on the carpet for days.]

We ended our day with GF chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and green sprinkles.

And a BYU March Madness win.

Holla.

hope your st patricks day was sunny.

xoxo.