and it was a lot of fun! i didn't do a lot of decorating, but i did try to set a nice table to mark the occasion as semi-special. so here was my table:
there were a few fun details on the table including the shamrock coasters and the seating cards. i made them and put everyones relationship to me on them, in irish! the answers were on the back if they couldn't figure it out, but i think everyone did.
my centerpieces had to be super simple because we had LOTS of food. so i used green candles i already had on black candle holders i already had and got FREE cards from shutterfly of pictures i took in ireland to put around them. all of the pictures were different. here is one side of one of them.
of course, evan had to have a special place to sit too! so i decorated his high-chair, including a name tag that said "baby" on it in irish.
it was a lot of fun preparing all of the food. my mom and katie helped a lot, which made it even more fun! i had been researching recipes, trying to find the perfect ones, for a while. they all ended up being amazing!! for the first course we had irish soup. this was served to me twice just in my first day in ireland. it is really like hot baby food, because you puree everything. i was a little worried because it calls for carrots, potatoes, onion, turnips, parsnips, and a leek, a lot of foods none of us ever eat, but everyone, even katie, loved it!
that's the only picture i got of the food. from there, we just ate and forgot all about the camera. we had guinness soda bread, which is something i loved in ireland, pork tenderloin, a cabbage/potato/bacon/onion side, and an apple crumble for dessert. nothing disappointed- it was all SO good! we were all so stuffed afterward, i don't think any of us had anything else for the rest of the night. but it was so much fun to enjoy this dinner with my favorite people in the world- my family! it was the best st. patrick's day possible! i hope that this turns into a new family tradition.
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