At Least 1/16th Irish

In our house St. Patrick's Day mainly means corned beef and cabbage which is totally yummy. Last year my sister and brother-in-law decided to take it a step further and have a party. My brother-in-law has more Irish blood than we do so he had fun going all out. So this year they had their second annual Whalen St. Patrick's Day party. We got our Irish on with an evening full of food, friends, and fun.

Dressing up was mandatory for entry.

What's an Irish party with out booze and gambling :) We drank our root beer and ginger ale as well as learned/played texas hold 'em. Half the table was clueless as to how to play. The other half became frustrated with the first half.

In the end Adam won the priceless green and gold coins.

This is my little leprechaun after finding the pot of gold.

The party was over the weekend. So when the 17th hit we of course had corned beef and cabbage again for dinner. Can I just say how much I love corned beef with the delicious mustard and brown sugar glaze? Yummyyyyyyyyy!

The End of February

We only have a few pictures that haven't been posted yet. Probably because they had nothing to do with snow. I think all but one of the February posts were snow related.

For Jake's birthday we ate out at Famous Daves. He loves their bread pudding so we brought some home and stuck candles in it. His birthday is the day after Valentine's and we did cakes for Valentine's so he was okay with a not so traditional birthday cake.

Seth was a little concerned when the candles relighted after Jake blew them out. Tade thought it was so funny using the trick candles on dad.

My rocker boys on one of their snow days.

Seth on lead vocals and guitar.

Tade following in dad's footsteps on the drums.