To Catch a Leprechaun

Sneakiness, a little green man, and lots of trouble will soon be in the air.  St. Patrick's Day is about 3 weeks away and it's time to prepare for Mr. Leprechaun again.  The kids had so much fun last year creating the trap and seeing the goofy tricks this little man played on us.  Yesterday we started to make our new trap...last year's didn't work...so hopefully we'll be prepared to catch him this year.

We started out with green paint and mixed in gold glitter.

Then traded off painting a box.

The kids then added more glitter on top of the wet paint...what a mess...but so cute!

This is what we have done for now...we're letting it dry.  This morning we added cut out shamrock shapes and a window.  I'll post some more pictures when it's finished.

This was last year's trap.  We may reuse the stick ladder we made or think of something different.

Last night Andy and I had "date night."  Andy's parents watched the kids...they had tons of fun with Grandma and Grandpa...and we went out to eat and then went to a surprise birthday party for Andy's old coaching partner from Gilbert, Scott Auderer.

Scott's wife Tammy organized a little surprise 40th b-day party at the Ballard Golf and Country club.  Here is Scott coming in...he just thought he was coming here with a few friends to have a couple of drinks and watch sports.  He really was surprised!

Wes and Randy...two of Andy's coaching buddies.

Scott's lovely wife Tammy...she's so sweet!  I can't tell you how nice it was to catch up with some of the people we used to sit by and talk to at Gilbert.  The coaches wives were back together again and we had lots of laughs! 

My Three Happy's for the day are on the next post...