Lest any of you are unaware, you should all know that Elisabeth Monson loves St. Patrick’s Day! There isn’t really any particular reason. I just do. And as such, we celebrate it with all our might!  Allow me to show you!

So, basically, this St. Patrick’s season, all the credit goes to Josh.  He thought of all the super fun stuff and made it happen! About a week and a half before St. Patrick’s Day, Josh surprised Fay and me with gifts!Fay received green nail polish, as she loves painting nails; and both of us girls profited thereby!  I got this clover necklace that is the perfect blend of festivity and classiness! Josh also found the fabulous book “The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day” that was the gift to the whole family!

And that’s not all, either!  A few nights later he carried on the tradition of making “conversation shamrocks.” When Kathryn and I were living in Provo (my freshman year of college), we had a discussion about conversation hearts. I expressed the sentiment that it was a shame that there weren’t any other “conversation” items for other holidays.  Kathryn was like “what would there be? conversation shamrocks?” Yes!  I loved the idea! But then she said “What would they say on them? “Text a Leprechaun” or something? Yes again! We got together at her apartment that March and made cookies which we then wrote phrases on!Though I am clearly no food photographer, here is a picture of some of the shamrocks we made this year! I know that leprechaun is spelled incorrectly on the cookie, and it isn’t because I don’t know how to spell it; it is because I ran out of space.This is Josh working on his cookies. I don’t know if you can tell; but the cookie in the lower right corner of the pan says “txt a pot o’ gold.” That cookie kind of made my life!

The day before St. Patrick’s Day was Sunday this year, and so I felt the need to dress green for church! I was so tempted to tape a piece of paper that said “leprechauns” over the word “fairies” on Fay’s shirt. But since it was church, I opted against it.

Another thing that Josh does for me every year (seriously, he is the best ever!) is give me flowers on St. Patrick’s Day. When we were dating, we talked about how ridiculous the price of flowers is at Valentine’s Day. Josh said he was more than happy to buy me flowers if that is what I wanted, but that if it was all the same to me, he would buy them on a day when they were at least somewhat decently priced.  I told him that I love St. Patrick’s Day, not Valentine’s Day anyway. So, he is the best husband in the whole world and gets me beautiful flowers for my favorite holiday!He was super sneaky about it too! I woke up on Monday morning and found this gorgeous bouquet on the table (along with the little shamrocks)! He had taken Fay early to the store and had them all ready before he woke me up!

St. Patrick’s Day evening, we had the sister missionaries over! We had to go all out for them, of course!  I wanted the meal to be festive, but also healthy. So, the main dish was a vegetable soup (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and spinach) which was made very green by the spinach!  Then we had a fruit salad and rolls, AND we had something I remember having growing up, which was lime sherbet and sprite floats!  They are tasty and ever so green!  Plus! Josh’s family has the fabulous tradition of putting coins in the food! (I washed them and wrapped them in aluminum foil first.) We mostly just put the coins in the missionaries food, because Fay probably would have eaten them, and well, they were Josh’s and my coins to begin with. 🙂  I’m sorry that I don’t have pictures of the dinner or our lovely Sisters, but I was running late when they got here.

And after all that, can anybody really wonder why I love this holiday so much?!