St Patty's Day shenanigans

Nothing says St Patty's Day like Vegan Samoa Cookies???  Its a stretch.  But the cookies WERE a nice touch for yesterday.  Avos clearly agreed.

How could she NOT?  These were delicious!

You can find the recipe here.  Loved these!

Dylan was a fan as well.  Not that I didn't think he would be.

In the afternoon, my friend Cindy and her two kids came over for some St Patty's Day shenanigans.  The kids enjoyed dancing to a Zumba instructor dvd.  It got turned off at one point and there was a protest of sorts.  The people love their BOOMBA!

Then we tried to take a group photo and wouldn't ya know it - Avos got mad!  What?!

She seriously cracks me up.  She was mad for no reason at all!  I like how Dylan is amused by all of this.  For a moment or two, I thought he was thinking of cheating on Melissa with Cindy!  Wuh-oh!  No worries tho Melissa - he made you a new picture yesterday.  You're still his number one gal!

Thanks for hangin' out with us for the afternoon, C-dawg!  It was fun!

Well, thats all for now. No real plans have been made for today other than an afternoon Zumba class.  I've hit up 3 different instructor's classes here so far and will hit up another gal's class today.  Its been fun but also confusing as I hear a lot of the same songs but with different choreography.  I must look like a crazy person trying to adapt!  Oh well!  Its fun seeing the different styles of instructors.

Later!

BERdeen.

Dylan, Avery and I are at my parents house for the week.  I think I said that in my last post?  Its been awhile.  Sorry about that!  I get distracted when out of my normal habitat.  I'll work on it.  I know a certain someone who was probably fighting the urge to call me and ask what the problem was.  His name starts with a D, ends with a Y and has ANN in the middle. He's very loyal, but also a slave driver.  I ought to make him do a guest post so he can see what this takes.  Ha!

Anyway, when we were here at Christmas, Dylan had brought along a gingerbread train to construct with Grandma.  Well, once again, we were distracted by other activities and it was forgotten.  Have no fear!  The St Paddy's Day Gingerbread train is here!  Woo woo!

Avery's first braid!  I distracted her with candy to get the job done.  Very sneaky.

And she lobbied for MORE, MORE, MORE!

I've been working on my Zumba routine this week and my Mom's been giving me shit for my "hair cutting face" that I apparently have when I'm dancing (aka, thinking).  HERE is HER "hair cutting face."  HA!  Take that, Mom!

Dylan loves coming here because he gets to watch lots of TV with Grandpa.  Yesterday I came home from Zumba class to find him watching Modern Family.  Ummmmm.  ??????

Finished product - prior to the gradual deterioration we've been watching the past few days.  (sneaky fingers.  For the record, this is all NEW candy - not the crap that came with the train)

When we got here, we were amazed by the snow!  We don't have this much.  So I took pics of it.  Its melted a lot though since we've been here.

You can't even see the mailbox!

I made him go out and stand by the snow bank for perspective purposes.  He didn't want to.

He's wearing my shoes.

This guy flew in from Texas.  He'll be flying to White Earth Lake in May or so.

Up to no good?  Always.

Today's lunch = delish.  This is Rachael Ray's French Style Tuna Melt.  It was so good that I ate TWO of what you see here.  TWO.  Plus chips.

And finally, Dylan wanted a picture of his ice cream from tonight.  Fancy!

Tomorrow I'm planning to make some vegan Samoa cookies.  Can't bring myself to buy processed girl scout cookies, so these better live up to my high expectations!

 

Later!

 

Mr Slapshot

I cannot figure out how to post a video, so please follow the link.  Surely there is a way, but my patience is lacking right now.  The kids and I are off to Aberdeen for a week while Eric works long hours this week in preparation to go play with his friends at the Final Five hockey tournaments in Minneapolis this coming weekend.  Trishy no likey long amounts of time alone!  So, off we go to Grandmas.  Here is a video for your viewing pleasure by Eric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyJK0CxX8LU

Later!

OH and please excuse Avery's morning time hair.  I purposely included her in the video clip b/c of its funny-ness!