Lucky, charming, and magically delicious

This year's St. Patrick's Day celebration was quite the success, if I do say so myself. I think it was probably one of the best years thus far. We had so much fun at our annual St. Patrick's Day party.

We had plenty of Irish festivities including kissing the Blarney Stone, limerick writing, learning an Irish jig, watching the St. Patrick's Day Veggie Tales cartoon, eating green food, doing heel clicks, and going on a treasure hunt.

The treasure hunt took us all over West Jordan in search of clues that eventually led to the treasure. All the clues were written in limerick form. I love doing stuff like this! And I love that everyone participated and really got into it!

Here is Courtney imitating a leprachaun, Matt kissing the Blarney Stone (you have to do it upside down), and Emma performing an Irish jig.

Emma taught us all a jig, and we had so much fun learning it and making fools of ourselves! Krista and Brittany were actually really good at it. Here's a little video clip of the "jig-off" we had to determine the winner.

For more jigging videos from the evening, check out Garrett's blog.

And let's be honest, what would a good Irish party be without drinking games? The first one we played was with these cool dice that I found at Target. You rolled the dice and had to do whatever the dice said. They said things like, "Hug someone wearing green", "Kiss an Irishman", or "Swap drinks with a friend". It was hilarious! Of course this was all done with water and green punch. Who needs alcohol to have a good time?

Then things got a little crazy. We played another drinking game (out of my Best Drinking Games of All Time book) where you had six glasses full of whatever and on your turn you have to roll a dice and drink the contents of whatever numbered glass corresponds with the number you rolled on the dice.

We raided Caron's fridge and filled the shot glasses with whatever we could find...grape juice, ginger ale, hot chocolate, whipped cream, salsa, chicken broth...etc.

But the funny part comes when you roll the dice and the glass is empty. You then get to fill it with whatever you want. And the next person who rolls that number has to drink the contents of the glass. Well, people started to get a little mean and fill the glasses with weird concoctions like hot chocolate mixed with salsa and ginger ale. Gross!

And guess who got the worst of it? ME! I had to drink salsa mixtures like 5 times. It was disgusting. But I've also never laughed so hard in my whole life. It was so funny, I seriously thought my abs were going to die from laughing so hard. Good times.

We also went to the St. Patricks Day parade downtown at the Gateway. This parade is so fun because really, anything goes. We mostly went to see Emma's Irish dance school perform. Here she is!

They were awesome. We also saw a girl on jumping stilts.

Some lepre"cons", some police on these hilarious stuffed horses, a bagpipe band, and lots of other fun stuff.

We have decided that next year we will join the parade either as a pogo stick brigade or the Ninja Turtles. After the parade, we headed over to the Irish festival and watched some really cool Irish dancers and listened to some Irish bands.

It was tons of fun! I love St. Patricks Day! Top O' The Mornin' To Ye!