Easter

This week we had our first holiday in our new home, which also happened to be the first holiday we've hosted ourselves. It was a great time and I enjoyed all the set up and decorating but it was quite an undertaking. All the extra space we thought we gained moving to this house seemed to disappear. The logistics of having 20 people over is confusing to say the least. I have so much respect for my mom doing this on a regular basis. That said, we were very happy to share our new home with our family and best friends for Easter. It was a very laid back day, we ate amazing food and sat on the patio. Thankfully it cooled down later in the day, it just happened to be the first weekend we had over 90 degree temperatures.

Sammy made adorable mini desserts & cupcakes

Tim in touch with his pretty side

Mama Schmitt

The kiddos were so cute, they didn't care that our backyard grass isn't growing yet. They just ran around hiding eggs in the dirt. Later we walked down to the park so they could run around, London came along and was so happy with all the attention she got the whole day. As a side note...we have also discovered that while she has many characteristics of a Husky like "talking" and digging, she is more German Shepard in her loyalty and does not take off if someone leaves the door open. We had her at the park and let go of her leash a few times, she just ran around getting attention from everyone.  Not that we're just going to let her roam around but it's nice to know that if someone let's her out on accident she won't take off and get lost as we have been warned.

Unfortunately this week hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows, I have bronchitis pretty bad. Thankfully the asthma and allergy kind not the contagious kind but I have not been a happy camper the past couple weeks. So if I've been rambling, I blame it on the cough syrup.

St. Patrick's Day

There was much fun to be had at the Ellis house this year for St. Patty's Day. We had some great friends over and Matt's family for dinner. We made corned beef sliders, green deviled eggs(NOT my idea, I could barely bring myself to eat them the green weirded me out), and corned beef & cabbage. I'm quite proud of my own cooking/baking projects. I made Concannon (from this recipe)for the first time, it turned out very yummy if I do say so myself. It was very easy, I look forward to making it again and adding some bacon. I also made rainbow cupcakes from a Pinterest idea. I have since eaten way more cupcakes then is good for me.

Pot O' Gold cupcakes

So much potatoes!

We headed out to downtown Chandler for the Irish Republic's St. Patty's Day festival. I love Irish Republic(formally Murphy's Law) but the festival ended up being too many people and not too much to do. The crazy wind didn't help. Plus I never really enjoy paying admission and then having to buy drink and food tickets on top of that. So we headed back home to watch movies and of course to take some pictures since we never remember to.

Sammy & I

Lacey & Rob with their Sears shirts

Getting sleepy, when did 11 PM get late?

Of course Matt & I didn't happen to be in any pictures together, we need to change that. Oh and that green wall was my project for the week. Didn't mean for it to get painted green in honor of St. Patty's Day, it just worked out that way! Our Irish flag has since found a new home in our outdoor bar area in progress. All our outdoor projects have been put on hold since our wonderful Arizona weather decided to turn cold and rainy for a few days. I can't wait for it to be back up to 80 degrees and sunny that's for sure.