Our church had an Irish-themed Pentecostal potluck/party today after Mass.
Decisions, decisions, decisions…
Cupcake walk
Irish dance lessons
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The St. Patricks the boys made. I love that Colm’s looks like it got in a barfight. 🙂
Colm’s St. Bridget’s Cross he made
Liam got invited to his first Oregon birthday party this week. He was so excited. When I went to go drop him off they said that Colm could stay, too. Bonus!!! I have to say that this birthday party was probably in the top two birthday parties we have ever been to. It was awesome. It had a Greek Mythology theme; Liam was in heaven. When we first got there, they had homemade cardboard shields (the kind a knight might use) for the kids to decorate. They also had swords made out of pool noodles. Once they had their shield done they could grab a sword and go out in the backyard and battle with the other boys.
One of the games they played at the party was freeze tag, but the person who was it was Medusa and when they tagged someone they had to freeze/turn to stone. This is Liam with the Medusa hat:
They also had a game where all of the kids got nerf-like slingshots and they had to shoot the chimera. The birthday boy’s mom painted the picture of the chimera for them to shoot at.
They also used their slingshots to defeat these creatures from the underworld that the birthday boy and his brothers had made out of these Bionicle-like toys. Slingshots aimed and ready to fire.
This is all of the boys in the Trojan horse going into the city. What actually happened was they went up onto the deck/play structure where the birthday boy’s dad and godfather were waiting to welcome the Trojan horse into the city. Boy were they “surprised” when the horse turned out to be filled with a bunch of soldiers. 🙂
The last game they played was hitting the pinata, only the pinata was a homemade Trojan horse.
(Project 365-5/22/10)
It was by far one of the most creative birthday parties the boys have ever been to. It also helped that it was a beautiful day!
Is it a big deal that I baked cookies this week? Yes! I have not baked anything since before Christmas. When we were getting ready to move I didn’t exactly have time to bake and then once we did move all of my mixing bowls and pretty much everything else I needed to bake was in storage. Now that I have my measuring spoons, mixing bowls and cookie sheets I can finally bake again. I made chocolate chip oatmeal cookies…one of my favorites.
One of Colm’s homework assignments for this month was to draw a picture of something you like to do at school. Colm drew a picture of himself playing basketball. What I love about this picture is that he drew clouds over the sun because he hates playing basketball when it’s too sunny because the sun gets in his eyes when he is trying to shoot a basket.
