St Patty's Weekend!

In our town St Patty's is not just a day...it is a whole wild weekend. Our little towns claim to fame is the littlest biggest Irish celebration in our state and the world's largest Shamrock. Yes we even have a large stone off main street that they say is a "Blarney Stone!" So our town comes to life with lots of fun and festivities and yes, a lot of alcohol and parties. We pretty much try to stay away from the alcohol and parties but we do go to the fun things like the Dodge ball tournament, St Pats Parade and the Kiddie Carnival. Here are the pics and descriptions! Enjoy!
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The boys loved getting together with their friends and watching the Dodge Ball Tourney.

Can anyone say Dodge Ball? Some our local friends on a team.

Watching the parade with our good friends and neighbors the Akindas!

Yep, that is a horse of a different color....GREEN! Poor white horse got in a fight with a can of green paint and I think the paint won! ;)

This is a silly tradition and I think for these people to parade down main like this they are already drunk. You wouldn't catch me alive or dead parading with them playing a toilet plunger!

Here is the Boy Scout float. Yes that is Jay in his Raiders sweatshirt and our friend Pati next to him...we called them the men in black, the Boy Scout Body guards!

This is the Shiners from our community. Jay has decided he wants to join them, not help raise money but so he can ride in one of those cars.

These kids were quite good on their unicycle.

This is Jayson's buddy's Dad's car. They live next door so we get to see this mustang quite often.

This is one of my YW...she plays the flute in the Jr High band.

A leprechaun in a go chart.

This was Jayson's favorite float. He was quite excited to see the machine gun the solider was carrying.

After the parade was over the guy tried to take the horse into one of the bars...yep, time to go home, everyone was getting ready to hit it hard again!

Kiddie Carnival...Jayson loves the games and Carson.....

Well Carson loves the animals they bring. He didn't play one game, except for the hoop shoot, and the rest of his tickets were spent on the horses and the petting zoo.

Jayson did take one ride on the horse though.

Carson on his 3rd horse of the day!

This is a fun pic of Jayson trying to be brave and hold the chick. It made him a little nervous as you may have noticed!

The petting zoo is a lot of fun for my boys, they just love the pony!

Carson loved the little chick and wanted to take him home. Along with all the rest of the animals too. Hmmm...my parents may know who that is like!


As you can tell, Carson is loving every minute of the animals, no fear!