as luck would have it...

my sisters and i have been doing a little genealogy for my mama's side of the family with my grandma over the last year.  i suppose i should say-- ken, jo and gangs have done most since i just became involved a month or so a go. (it's a whole other exciting blog full of stories and fun facts to be posted at a later date. you won't want to miss it, unless you're not related and if that's the case, you won't mind missing it at all.)  regardless, we have discovered a good bit of irish blood running through these veins of ours.  we haven't ever really made a big deal of good ol' st. paddy's day, but in the words of my sister kenna, "it is our right and obligation to celebrate."  so, celebrate we did.....

(it sure gives a little meaning to that year we did irish step dancing, huh sisters?  oh, those were the days and quite the outfits, i might add. now point, hop, toe....arms straight! ;))

first, we were visited by a darling leprechaun and his pot of gold.  we then headed over to the sitake's where the leprechauns left some goodies for the children and we made a mostly irish, but most certainly delicious, feast. 

on the menu:

shepherd's pie

steamed cabbage

cabbage salad

irish i were drunk pot pie

green cream soda

and

somewhere over the rainbow cake

(coconut cake with lemon frosting)

i told tim i would make everything else if she would just make the cake, "perfectly plain, with all the colors of the rainbow." she definitely did not disappoint.  it was everything i dreamed it to be only tastier.=) 

the kids frolicked about and ate too many chocolate coins while mark and i snuck out for a little playtime. (thanks for sitting sisters!) overall, our first st. patrick's day celebration was a fine one but we still "just wanna know where da gold at?" ;)