Luck of the Irish

Although Karsten is of Irish decent; he has not been so lucky lately.  The week before St Patties Day, he came home with a rug burn on his neck.  Just playing too hard; kids will be kids.  The very next day, Amy received a call from school that started out with "don't freak out, but..."  Karsten had tripped on the playground and ended up with a fat lip and cuts across his face.  Concrete = 1; Karsten = 0.  I feel I had to explain that short story in this blog to explain Karsten's owie in all the pics.

Amy comes from a line of Mulvaneys and Kris has a Irish blood on his side too as a McLaughlin.  We are Proud to be Irish in this family and are excited to share this fun holiday with our kiddos.  We used to just go to a friends house and drink a lot of green beer... Well, now... um... I guess we still kinda do the same thing!  Thank goodness our friends invite our kiddos and puppies over too!  Kasey and Karsten were super excited to hang out with their friends at the "Leperchaun's Birthday Party".  Evidently, every party we attend HAS to be someones birthday.  After explaining ten times it was a holiday called St Patties Day; we got tired and said it was Leperchaun Pete's birthday (from Micky Mouse).  These are two excited kiddos below although poor Karsten's lip was hurting from his previous unlucky slip on the playground. 

Kyle also gets pretty excited about this holiday being from Irish decent and offered to host this year's get together.  Kids and Puppies welcome ... and boy, were they!  This house was flooded with new puppies and lots of kiddos to play with them!

Bella and her Daddy, Frankie

Amy lost Karsten for just a bit at the party, but it was a good thing Kasey knew where he was!  The kids thought it was pretty funny to have such a nice "Kid Door" (aka: puppy door) to let them in and out of the backyard.  Once outside, Kasey found a stake and decided he would go hunt vampires.  Wrong holiday, but ok, buddy.

Kasey, Tahlea and Julie

The grown ups had plenty of fun inside where it was warmer.  Lots of yummy food such as Bangers and Hash and of course Lucky Charms!

Jim and Sarah's new pup, Midnight

We even had to take a quick group pic to send to Big Karsten.  Karsten used to host the St Pats event until he moved to AZ.  Now, we just miss him terribly and wanted him to know we were thinking of him!

The kids started getting tuckered out with all that play.  Good thing we had a movie that captured their attention!

Definition of a great St Patties Day?  Well, Cute kiddos = Check; Great Friends = Check; Delicious Food and Beverages = Check....

And Two Tuckered out Kiddos = Double Check!