St. Patricks Day

So yesterday was St. Patricks Day and the kids and I decided that this year we wanted to catch a Leprechaun and demand him to turn over his gold to us. We then set about to build a trap the day before. We made it look like a Leprechaun hat and then put "gold" on top of the trap "hole". We then wondered how we would be able to get it to climb onto the trap so that he would fall in, hmmm quite the problem! Finally we remembered that Leprechauns like to break rules so Kenedy made little signs to attach saying, "don't climb on the top", "don't take the gold" and my favorite "don't leave treats or surprises". So our trap was set and we all went to bed with visions of little men in our heads!
You should have seen the excitement when we woke up the next morning! Ryker was out of bed and dressed ready to go down in what seemed like seconds. I made them all stay upstairs until everyone was ready for school and the day, poor Ryker had to wait a long time for all of us girls to get ready. They kept standing at the top of the stairs looking down trying to see something Leprechaunish. They all decided that the dark shapes they saw on the downstairs carpet had to be footprints.
Finally we were all ready to go and I went down first so I could get reaction pictures.

We were all so surprised to find lots of mischievous things happened while we were sleeping!

Lots of the furniture had been turned scaddywompus and what we all thought were footprints turned out to be chocolate gold coins that silly Leprechaun dropped on his way out!

The kids hurried to check the trap to see if we caught a Leprechaun, what we found was Ryker's spiderman action figure and a note that said.. "Nice try but I am too sneaky for the likes of you! Ha ha ha! Better luck next time! From Lucky the Leprechaun" The kids thought that was so funny!

Look what that crazy Leprechaun did to our toilet!

The kids had a lot of fun this day and all agree that next year we will try again to catch that Leprechaun!