St. Patrick's Day Love

This year St. Patrick's Day was extra special.  It was extra special because my brother got married!!  So needless to say we were all looking forward to this special day!  But before the big celebration we still had our usual St. Patty's Day traditions to take care of.

Step #1 - dress up look green goofballs.

Claire had multiple outfits to wear throughout the week but here is the one she chose to wear for her party at school on Friday.  Notice her hair extension.  She had been VERY into these lately.  I tried to talk her into getting the curly hair kind but she was not having it!

Oliver was tricky this year because I thought I had a shirt that would fit him but because of that chest and belly it wouldn't work.  So we went with some green pants and a fancy bow tie.  How can you go wrong.  And I love that he left it on all day.

Step #2 - set up the leprechaun trap and hats (this one is new).

This year Claire was all about fixing the mistakes that we made last year with our trap.  She felt that last year we really messed up because our basket had holes in it.  So this year she searched her closet until she came up with this cookie tin.  There was no way he was getting out of this!  And he did come but we lost him again.  He did leave a bunch of treats though! I didn't get any pictures though because we were preparing for the wedding.

 This year we started a new tradition (thanks to Aunt Jacqie).  Legend has it that if you are good girl or boy and you leave a decorated hat next to your bed that the leprechaun will shrink that hat down to his size and wear it around and then leave it for you.  

 So we all decorated cups and left them by our beds.  

 And woke up to these!  I didn't get any pictures the morning of St. Patrick's day but we still have this hat so I just snapped this one.

As you can see, we must have been good because the leprechaun shrunk down our hats.

Step 3 - WEDDING TIME!!!!!!

So after all the leprechaun fun, it was time to drop off the kids and head to the wedding!!

The weather was AMAZING!  The temperature  was about 75 degrees and sunny!  Everything was perfect!  I could go on and on and on but that would take all day.  Erin was a saint and took pictures for me the whole time, so I will just post them and talk about them.

Brian, Kevin, and Sara. 

 It was so nice that my in laws could all be there.  It is always a great time when we can get everyone in the same place.

Mark and John looking handsome before the ceremony.

My handsome hubby.

Nonny waiting for the ceremony to start.

The groomsmen and the groom to be.

My mother in her beautiful dress.

Me walking in. Our dresses were gorgeous and I had the perfect shoes on but I didn't get any shots with the whole ensemble.

But I do have this picture of my shoes.  They were gorgeous!  And I wore them the whole night and danced like crazy!!

 

Susie and her Daddy.

 Even the ceremony was fun! 

My mother and father.

And my mother and father in law.

Three generations of hot mamas.  Welcome to the family Sue!!

My aunt, my mother, and me.  We all had a great time dancing!

It was so beautiful out that everyone had their cocktails outside!

 We even managed to get Erin in a picture.  Thanks again for taking all the pictures Erin, you did a great job!

The Komo boys.

The Komo girls.

My mother and Greg dancing.  See....even the dances were fun!

Not our best shot but I had to put this in.  This is Mark handing me the microphone after he finished the Irish blessing so that I could say Grace.  Can you tell that we just HATE being the center of attention :)

I love this shot too.  Erin wanted to see if you could do a "self shot" like you do with a point and shoot.  She didn't think it worked out but I thought it came out great!

Overall, St. Patrick's day was perfect!  The wedding was perfect and I am so happy for Greg and Sue!  It was an amazing day and I couldn't have had more fun!!!!