Happy St. Patrick's Day

Since moving to Indiana almost seven years ago we have been attending the annual St. Patrick's Day in Indianapolis.  It has become a tradition we all look forward to.  Ben usually has been able to join us but unfortunately he wasn't able to today.  Temperatures were at 18 degrees when we left our house at 10 a.m.  Thankfully it began to warm up and by the time we were downtown it was up to 28 degrees and very cloudy.  We brought plenty of blankets and bundled up with coats, hats, mittens and scarves.  We were a little chilly but overall not too bad.

Here are a few photos of us at the parade.

Menu for today

Breakfast:

Melt in your mouth muffins (colored green of course)
canned pears (from our pear trees last fall)
boiled egg

Lunch/Dinner:

Irish Stew

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!

Day 76 - Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

The kids always enjoy waking up to green toilet bowl water!  Kind of gross but it is a favorite tradition of the kids and so easy!

Green muffins and kiwi for breakfast!

Here we are at the Indy St. Patrick's Day parade.  That green hat on my lap is Gabe.   Ben usually joins us but had a staff meeting so we had to go without him this year.  :(

We met up with the Kassab family - we met them through choir.  (Gabe Kassab, Hannah, Nancy, Elizabeth, Seth, Camille, (our) Gabe, Veronica, and Grace.

Gabe's favorite part - the candy of course! 

Parade

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

We went downtown to the parade today.  

This is our third time since we moved here.

A few friends joined us and we picked Ben up from work.

The day was beautiful, blue sky and sunshine (close to 60 degrees).

We had a perfect seat right near the announcer of all of the floats.

Our breakfast!

St. Patrick's Day Parade

I couldn't get anyone (except Grace) to look at me
they were too busy watching the parade.

Camille and Grace.

Gabe and Grace.
Gabe chose to wear his shamrock headband around his waste.

We had Irish stew for dinner with sour dough bread.
For dessert we had pavlova; basically meringue with whipped cream, strawberries and kiwi.
I don't think this is officially Irish but
I had it for the first time while on my mission in Ireland
so for me it is an "Irish" dessert.

When possible we try to attend a St. Patrick's Day parade. It was a beautiful day, one of the best so far. Last year we froze! We picked Ben up from work and headed to watch the parade. Two friends came along with their kids too. We had an enjoyable time.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day is a special day in our house. I am proud of my Irish roots. My (paternal) grandfather Michael Sweeney and grandmother Mary Kilkenny Sweeney immigrated to the United States from Ireland in the early 1900's. Then I had the great privilege of serving a mission in Ireland for 18 months.

Today we decided to attend the Indianapolis St. Patrick's Day Parade. We have my good friend Julie visiting us from Oklahoma City and she joined us. We picked Ben up from work and he came too! The weather was not at all "spring like" so we were all bundled up with hats and gloves and a blanket. We all had such a fun time together despite the wind and chill.

We ended the day with a family night on the history of St. Patrick's Day. I think we can all look to St. Patrick as an example of a true disciple of Jesus Christ.