A St Pattie's Picture Post! Oh and I guess an explanation is in order too

I realize that I have left quite a few of my friends in the dust the last few days. Here is a brief (hopefully) explanation.

On Monday for some reason the thought came to me of how many abbreviations we use in blogging. There's BTW, there's LOL, there's TBD, that one might not be as popular I guess, if you're wondering it stands for "to be determined" or if you really want to be difficult (or just plain lazy) you can even go with TBDAALT. To be determined at a later time.

Anyway, I started wondering how many letters you could use, instead of just spelling out each word, before you would have people scratching their heads thinking "what on earth are those initials supposed to mean".

For some reason the phrase "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" popped into my head. I started wondering what would happen if I wrote it out with only the first letter of each word. Would anyone be able to figure out what phrase I had written just by the first letters of each word.

So I wrote it out, and then to make it a little easier, I also put in spaces for each letter I left out.

It looked really easy to me, but that was mostly because I knew what it was. My son Kelly just happened to be sitting a few feet from me with his lap top, so I asked him to look at it and see if he could figure it out.

At first he was stymied, "Oh good" I thought, "I have come up with a tricky little puzzle".
Because of Kelly's difficulty, I decided (very spur of the moment this was) to make it a little blog challenge.

With prizes no less.

Well I should have realized what I was in for when just a minute after I posted my little puzzle, Kelly said, "oh, I see what it is, that wasn't really hard after all."

I'm still not sure why, but the only people who saw it and responded first were all family members.

If you are interested you can go to the monday post and the ones following it and read my newly created little Soap Opera for yourself.

I hope this is enough of an explanation to make it clear.

Alright, now to the other purpose of this new post.

Yesterday, being St. Patrick's Day, I felt quite festive. I had thought the night before that it would be fun to have Donald, Lisa and the girls come over for a St Patty's dinner.

I decided against it though because I remembered that Lisa had told me about her hectic week she had coming up.

Tuesday is usually not too busy of a day for her, but it was this week because she had agreed to play her violin for our local college CBC. They were putting on a concert last night and they wanted her to play in the symphony with them.

In case you didn't already know Lisa is a very accomplished violin player. She is a professional.

I ended up talking to her yesterday afternoon and told her that I had wanted to have them over for dinner that night, and we were able to work out her schedule so that they could come.

I took pictures.

Mostly of Elisabeth, and Elisabeth along with Alexandra and Lorelai.

Elisabeth was wearing her new green outfit that I recently made her, so I wanted pictures of her in it.

Here are pictures of last night.

Here is E in her new, green, grandma made, outfit. See how well she's sitting up? It's one of her new milestones.

Here we are at dinner. Eating our green food. Tuna noodle casserole, made with green spinach noodles and a side of peas. Believe it or not the girls LOVED it. Lisa and I couldn't have been more surprised. Or HAPPY. Three loving sisters.

Even more sisterly love.

What a happy little daddy's girl.

Sweet girl in her new green outfit. No pinches for Lizzy.

Another eating dinner shot.

I hope you enjoyed my pictures.

Also keep an eye out for a new puzzle contest. I'm hoping to make this one really hard.

UPDATE! I just went to my little brother Mike's blog and he has the coolest You Tube type video up. Go Here to see it, you won't be dissapointed. He loves comments too btw!