color me green

St. Patties day use to mean green beer and time with friends. After you have children it is all about green food and fun times with the kids.

I wanted to make shamrock cookies for the kids so I went on the hunt for a cookie cutter.... guess what no one has any st. patty day stuff :( So even after she passed away Aunty Jean came to the rescue when Deb found a shamrock cookie cutter in her collection :) So Last night I made the cookie dough and then first thing in the morning I rolled them out and made them for the kids. After a lunch of green pancakes and green milk we decorated our cookies. After that the kids went outside in the +6 weather.
It was a great way to spend st. pattys day

He is such a cutie

Mama we love green pancakes and green milk

and decorating cookies

Happy St. Patricks Day everyone from the Christensens

I found my new love

On Tys birthday we went to our very first auction ( well I have been to auctions before but cows are not something I am interested in). We were going to go with some friends of ours but a mix up happened and we ended up on our own. It took us half and hour to get there and it was cold, but we got our number and headed into the auction barn. Little did we know that there would be three auctioners going at once and for newbies it was very confusing. But we found an older man to help us and we sat down to just watch. I was very scared to bid on anything b/c I did not want to do it wrong...... but then they had an outdoor hockey rink that started at 100.00 and kept going down down down then when it was at 5.00 I though ok here is my chance to get my feet wet and put in a bid, so I held me card high in the air and made my bid. Well guess what i won!!!!!! It was a 250.00 skating rink that I got for $5. Well then I was bit by the bug and wanted to bid on more things. I did not win anything elce but Greg did bid on what he thought was a humidafier and got it for 25.00, well it turned out to be an air purifier and we were thinking we over paid for this thing that we did not even want :( So after that I bid and won some cookies and we went and paid and headed home with our new skating rink and air purifier. As soon as I got home I went on line to see how much we could get for this air purifier and low and behold it was a 199.99 so score :) we tried it out and thought ya we really like this we will keep it.
So now that I have found my new love of auctions I want to go all the time, I told Greg I need a second job to pay for all the wonderful things that I want to buy.