Our PB office is in the same building as my mom’s candy store – The Sister’s Sweet Shoppe.  They sell gourmet nuts, high quality chocolates, candies, all varieties of our PB of course, holiday baskets and even FRUITCAKE!  Yes, people really do eat fruitcake.  But if they aren’t eating OUR fruitcake then they are wasting their calories because our fruitcake is legit.  No garbage – just the good stuff.  Plus some of it comes dipped in chocolate!  HELLO!  Well, my mom and her sister Nanette have dubbed themselves the ‘Fruitcake Sisters’ and have become somewhat of a local icon around town…

Anyways, our PB office/candy store is located in Historic Downtown Dublin, Ohio and every year the City of Dublin puts on a large St. Patrick’s Day celebration with parties, music, contests and a fabulous St. Patrick’s Day parade!  And it just happens to be THAT time of year once again!  ST. Paddy’s Day!  This is a BIG BIG deal for us here in DUBLIN !!!  (ohio ;0)  This year the parade was on Saturday but unfortunately, the weather was a bit of a downer (light drizzle all morning).  I don’t have pictures of our float this year so until then – here are some great photos of us from last year’s parade…

This is my adorable Grandma standing next to our beautiful boat float.  We won the “Best Commercial Float” contest in 2008 & 2009!  My creative mother actually spent hours making those awesome green and white paper flowers that are decorating the boat float.  Aren’t they gorgeous?  She is sooooo talented !!

On the left is Danny our ‘Warehouse Nut’ who so willingly always wears our frog costume…funny thing is, I think he secretly LOVES being the Dublin Frog!  Next is my Aunt Nanette (in her St. Patrick’s Day Fruitcake Sister costume) then in the center is my tiny, adorable Grandmother in her Grandma’s Fruitcakes costume, then my mom (in her St. Patrick’s Day Fruitcake Sister costume) and on the far right is my cousin Lincoln sporting a “Vote for The Sisters” t-shirt, y’know like the shirts from Napoleon Dynamite?   {claim to fame : someone in my nutty family actually KNOWS Napoleon Dynamite (aka Jon Heder) and she knows him well too } Down in front is my youngest sweetie-bug cousin who is never afraid to dress up crazy and cheer for the Fruitcake Sisters!  Whereas I probably would have been mortified to be associated with these nutty ladies when I was her age, she is stellar and one of their biggest fans!  I think I’m coming around though…and so has my super fun sister Stephanie…

Stephanie (on the left) brought two of her roommates to the parade and had them dress up for the festivities also!!  Everything was so successful and fun.  What a fabulous Holiday!!!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!

♥ Kimberly