Luck O' the Irish

Oh how I love St. Patricks Day! Why?? I don't particularly know...maybe it's the Irish in me. Or maybe it's the memory of my Dad getting all hyped up about St. Patricks Day, wearing his green and trying his best irish accent out. Whatever the case may be I've always tried to go out of my way on St. Pattys to make it special. I always wear my green and make a traditional Irish meal. This year I had big plans, found some fun activities for the kids and planned a new version of the meal. But things happen as they always do and we were late on our planning and as luck would have it the stores were all out of corned beef. It suddenly occurred to me that maybe I'm not the only who tries to make an irish meal on St Pattys day. Regardless our day still turned out to be a great one even though the irish theme of things sort of went out the window.
Kurt had to run some errands in Valencia so we all piled in the car and drove down together. The weather was so incredibly nice in Valencia!! I LOVE the heat, just in case no one knew that by now. It was so sunny and warm...no sweater required. A nice change from the weather we've been having in Frazier lately, I don't think I could express just how much I am OVER the winter! :) After finishing up his duties we tried to take one last stab at the hunt for corned beef and were unsuccessful. We were all hungry for some lunch so we headed to our fave place from back in our Valencia days, The Habit. They have super yummy sandwiches, salads, and burgers....and yummy malts! Once our bellies were full we had to take advantage of the nice weather so we took the kids to a park to play. We were the only ones there so the kids got to do their thing without being bullied. Kurt & I had tons of fun honing our aerobie skills. We tried to see just how far we could throw it, I got it all the way across the street and to the other park...lol! Then we ran around and played tag with the kiddos. It was so nice out I just didn't want to leave.
We stopped to rent some movies on our way home, I have been dying to see Australia. It was well worth the stop! The movie was incredible, if you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. Emmitt has been battling a fever since Monday, he was so pooped out from the daily adventures that he passed out around 6pm. I woke him at about 8:30 worried that he would be wide awake at 2 am. When I woke him he had a fever again so I gave him some medicine and he sat drowsy on the couch. I felt bad for waking him up so we put him back to bed a half hr later. He slept soundly till morning. The pictures were taken in front of our home on a hillside that is just so green and pretty. After all the fun we had I guess it's not about how "Irish" you make the day but the time spent together.