St. Patrick's Day Fun

This year, since my husband was working we spent St. Patrick's day with my best friend and her adorable kiddos. To make it even more of a party, we got to have three of our other friend's kids join in the fun while she had a much needed date night out with her hubby. So, if you're keeping track, that's my three kids, plus two kids, plus another three kids. That gave us a grand total of 8 kids, all under the age of 7, 4 of them still in diapers. Sheeewy. Are we crazy or what? But, with some awesome ideas from Pinterest and some great free printables I found online, I think the kids all had a fun time. And as for my bestie and I.....well, we survived. :)

Here is Felecia and I with our little ones. Just wait....there are more kids on the way.

I found these adorable bingo cards here: http://thecraftingchicks.com/2012/03/st-patricks-day-lucky-bingo-free-printables.html

They all ended up winning prizes!

I also printed off some coloring sheets from family fun's website and found a great word search here: http://preservingwonder.com/2012/03/st/

The big event of the night was a treasure hunt! I found the printable clues here:

http://jessekatedesigns.blogspot.com/2009/03/st-patricks-day-fun-day-6-treasure-hunt.html

I also used rolo candies to leave a trail of "gold nuggets".

Treasure!!!!

Finally, what's a party without cake?

This cake was fun to make and simple to decorate using only tinted green frosting, green sprinkles and green M&Ms

They all had a blast! Happy St. Patrick's Day!

And now for a behind the scenes look at what it felt like from the viewpoint of a mom, juggling babies, diapers, bottles, crying, candy and GREEN cake covered children.......

Hehehehehehe! Thanks for hosting us Felecia!