Craft Central // St. Patrick’s Day

About a week ago, my parents’ basement freezer died.  As they were moving everything from the deceased freezer to the new one they found our wedding cake.  You know – the one you are supposed to eat on your first wedding anniversary?  Zach and I never got around to it and then each year it continued to go on forgotten.  My parents gave me an ultimatum:  come get the cake or we will chuck it.  In fear of breaking tradition, I picked it up Monday night and took it home.  Then we ate it.  Four and a half years later.  It actually didn’t taste that bad.  The texture of the cake was off, but the frosting was actually very good!  45 minutes later…only one of us got violently ill.  That someone was me.  I figure it was a small sacrifice to make considering it is supposed to give you luck in your marriage over your lifetime.

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I have zero Easter decor for my house.  I have bins and bins for Halloween and Christmas, but nothing for Easter.  I bought an MDF letter at Micheal’s on sale a few months ago along with a moss table runner.  I had seen tutorials for moss letters all over Pinterest and didn’t want to pay $79 for Pottery Barn’s gorgeous moss monograms, so I decided to make my own.  It was a pretty easy DIY craft, but incredibly messy!

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Then I found speckled robin eggs in the dollar section of Target.  Another craft was born.

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As if I hadn’t done enough crafting already…my mom and I made a baby shower gift for my cousin.  We made silouhettes of her and her husband (and will make one for baby when she comes) to go in her ultra feminine nursery.  We wanted white round frames – but they are almost impossible to find in a regular size and at a decent price.  So we found clocks at Wal-Mart in the perfect size and converted those into shadow box frames.  Super easy – super economical.

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Friday night we went to dinner in Sandy with my family and some long-time family friends at Los Cucos.  We love the Caywoods and Swensons – it was so fun to get together and catch up.

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I also adore the Swenson children.  It’s impossible not to love that face…

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Saturday was the day of the cousin’s baby shower.  It was a tea party theme:  we had fruit kabobs and my aunt’s delicious chicken salad sandwiches. My grandparents had 31 grandchildren.  31 grandchildren makes a lot of great-grandchildren.  It’s official:  I am the oldest married granddaughter without a baby.

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Saturday night Zach and I went out to dinner and movie with Zach’s sister Gina and our brother-in-law Kelly.  We got to briefly hang out with their girls before it was time to head off to our dinner reservation at Tona.

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We love Tona.  They have some of our very favorite rolls and the best garlic edamame.

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Sunday Zach and I were asked to sub in primary for the six and seven-year-olds.  The topic was Baptism.  We had our friend ‘Froggy’ come help us teach the class.  The kids were obsessed with him.  Zach was quite fond of him as well…

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After church we drove down to West Jordan for my cousin’s St. Patrick’s Day party.  We were told to wear green – and took it to the next level.  Literally every article of clothing [with the exception of Zach’s shoes] were a shade of green.  Fifty Shades of Green, if you will…

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We had a traditional Irish feast of corned beef and cabbage + green rolls, cake bites, and mint ice cream.  Even my brother joined us – who had been in Moab for the weekend jumping off arches [literally, jumped off Corona Arch – the ‘world’s largest rope swing’.]  I was glad he returned home from his adventure in one piece so our entire family could be all together for the holiday.

Hope you all had a fantastic St. Patty’s Day!!

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