Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I'm really excited for today because I have set-up a surprise stay-at-home date with Nate for this afternoon! I have been planning this for several weeks now...gathering up decorations and making decorations! I have also looked at different websites/blogs to get ideas of what I could do and not spend a ton of money and so this is what I came up with!

For treats we had scones (very Irish there!), popcorn with green icing drizzled over it, mint dark chocolate kisses wrapped in kelly green foil, a variety of green colored Jelly Bellies, Pot O' Gold (rolos in a green tin) and a Clover Leaf cake with mint Oreos around the cake.

For entertainment I looked up on Grooveshark (a free website to listen to music) and found some Irish music from Celtic Women and had that on to set the Irish mood. I also looked up movies to watch online that were free but Nate didn't want to watch a movie.

For clothing I found a shirt at Walmart for Nate that cost $4! Score!!! I also went to Target and found a pair of boxers that had clover leaves all over them...they were too cute to pass up! I also found at Target in their $1 section hats for us to wear! Granted I never thought Nate would wear anything with glitter on it but to my surprise he did (but only to take a picture)

I also bought spinach pasta but left it at our babysitters house when I dropped off Nataleigh. Heidi a friend of ours that lives in the next apartment over watch Nataleigh for us so we could have a little time to spend with each other alone before Nate had to go to clinicals.

Here are a few pictures of what I did. He really enjoyed the effort and decor and especially the thoughtfulness of planning a stay at home date.

If you are interested in great cheap at home dates or themes for at home dates check out the blog Love, Actually on blogspot and you will be amazed at all the ideas that they have!