St Patricks fun 2009

There is always lots of fun celebrating our Irish Heritage! Linda's great grandmother is from County Clare Ireland, a town known as Ennistymon. This year I bought all of my children the tartan colors of Ireland. The girls got scraves and the the boys got ties. I don't have any pictures of the kids wearing them, because they are all up in Utah. I'm hoping for the next year that they'll take a picture and post it to me.

In the meantime, our annual feast consisted of Corn Beef and Cabbage, green mashed potatoes, green pistachio pudding, and green 7-UP. Nora and Heidi joined in the fun with adorable shamrock skirts, and headbands. Heidi even slept over and helped bake green frosted cupcakes--YUMMY-

Brian is graduating!!!

GRADUATION DAY: April 23rd, CONVOCATION: April 24th 2009

We couldn't be any prouder of our good son and his accomplishments~but graduation just added that extra dimension! He graduated with his Bachelors in Biology-cum laude (just shy of one class for a minor in Chemistry). And that money lei around his neck, that would be my doing! A hUnDReD crisp one dollar bills, folded multiple times for each, and then tied and fanned out. I hope you can admire it, because I won't be making it again! I am saving it to pass down to the next graduate, and handing Brian a hundred dollar bill.