It's spring break around these parts. St. Patrick's Day kicked off my week off. We went to Mollie's Pub again for the 4th year in a row. Love that place. It's a pub in our friend's backyard. No joke. Like a real pub. It's pretty awesome. Everyone that goes there wants one in their backyard too. Here's our most recent family portrait. We're going to have some Easter pictures taken, but after Easter so Vivi will have her wrist brace off. It's time for an official family picture. I have 20000 pictures of Vivi and no one else. It's like Frank and I don't exist when you look through my photos.
For the party I made thin mint truffles. They were intense! Vivi now likes to pull up the step stool and "help" me with everything I'm doing in the kitchen. Such a little helper.
If you like Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies, then you'll love these. You take two boxes of Thin Mints and crush them up in a big ziploc with a meat tenderizer/pounder. Then you add a block of cream cheese. Yes, cream cheese does make everything better, thank you very much. You mix it all together until it forms a sort of dough, then you roll them into balls. I melted white chocolate and regular chocolate almond bark according to the package directions. You just roll the "truffles" into the melted chocolate and place on wax paper. I sprinkled some green sprinkles on top just for kicks. That's all you gotta do! (Yes, I just had to say that!)
Here's Vivi at the party. She had a blast. She danced to celtic music, ate, socialized, snacked at the bar....she's a party animal. Happy St. Patrick's Day!
