St. Patrick's Day with Friends

We have been celebrating St. Patrick's Day 

with our friends in Utah for at least 7 years.

Erin does the meat, veggies, brown bread, drinks & salads.

I do the desserts, favors, and salad.

RAINBOW SALAD:

I used this recipe 

+ consulted my good friend Barbara who walked me through the WHOLE thing!!

 Choose rainbow colors of jello (Think ROY G BIV)
Boil 1 cup of water

Add jello, 4 or 5 ice cubes, stir until they are melted

and pour about 2/3 of mixture into a chilled & greased 9x13 pan

Let set for 15-20 minutes
While that is setting add a few scoops or whip cream to you remaining 1/3 of jello

This takes approximately 15-20 minutes per layer
I made 12 layers so do the math... this is a time commitment.
However, if you are home all evening, just set a timer and it's really not that hard.
Here's what it looked like in the pan:

Slice right before serving.

 I'm not usually a huge jello fan but everyone LOVED this!!

 We had Irish stew, brown bread, & rainbow jello.


FAVORS for the girls:
I found these adorable headbands at Zurchers for $2

 These were at Walgreens for $1

We are LUCKY to have such great friends!!

Do you think they liked them? :)

I also made my favorite potato salad

& my mom's famous sugar cookies this week:

Hope that you had a great weekend!!

:) Whitney