Mother's Day 2009

Happy (belated) Mother's Day to all my mom readers out there! I hope you had a special day with your family and that you were truly honored yesterday.

This was the first year I did not get to spend Mother's Day with my mom. She is visiting my sister and has been helping her since soon after the birth of Katelyn. We had a quiet day as a family instead. We went to church then headed to go out for lunch. Surprisingly the wait wasn't as bad as expected at Outback, and the kids did great going out to dinner. We weren't sure how Joshua would do since we don't dine out much with the kids, but he did really well. We also saw a family whose daughter is in Rebekah's dance/gymnastics class and ended up being seated one booth behind them, so the girls got to sit back-to-back. Every once in a while Rebekah would peek over the back of the seat to check on her friend Erica.

After lunch we went home, I opened gifts, and we called our mothers to wish them a Happy Mother's Day. I got some camera accessories and the latest release of the "Love Comes Softly" series called "Love Takes Wind". I tried to watch it that afternoon, but I had so many interruptions that I finally just watched it in bed last night. Rebekah and I had Cubbies last night as well, so the afternoon went by very quickly - too quickly.

Here are some pics Darrin took of me with the kids.

Mother/Daughter Luncheon

In celebration of Mother's Day our church hosted a Mother/Daughter Luncheon today. It was called "Design on a Dime", and in addition to a lady-style lunch (choice of ham and cheese or chicken salad on a croissant, pasta salad, and mixed fruit), music, and a message we were entertained with a fashion show. Girls and women of all ages from our church walked down a runway showing off great buys which are fashionable and modest. The message shared was about modesty and what God's Word says how we are to dress. Kristen Hammel did a great job relaying the Scriptures to us.

At first I wasn't going to attend the luncheon because I had decided to not take Rebekah, but Tina wanted to go, so we went together since our mother's were indisposed. The reason I left Rebekah at home was because I figured she would be more into visiting with her friends and would have a hard time sitting still for the message. In retrospect, I think she would have enjoyed it, but she definitely would have struggled during the message. I will probably attempt to take her next year, though.

The tables were decorated in the theme of the Red Hat Society. Too cute!


Our table


Tina and me

My Mother's Day

Fortunately, we were able to spend Mother's Day as a family with my side of the family. Joshua had a low-grade fever over the weekend, but it all appears to have been from teething. Sunday I noticed he got his 4th tooth...finally! He was especially cranky Saturday and even clingy with me on Sunday, so I really believe that tooth is the culprit. He now just needs the middle top teeth to fill in the large gap in front.

Darrin and I also each made a trip to the urgent care on Saturday to determine that we both have sinus infections. Now that we are on antibiotics we are recovering, although Darrin seems to be a day behind me going through the illness and recovering. He felt pretty crummy on Sunday, and I wasn't a whole lot better, but we made the best of Mother's Day and enjoyed our time with my parents and my sister and her family. I am just so thankful that I got to spend the day with everyone because I thought I might miss out on seeing my sister and her family while they were in town.

The only bad thing about the day was that because we were not feeling great we missed church. Steve Green did a mini-concert during the morning services, and I was disappointed to have to miss it.

Here are some pictures from our day with my family.

3 Generations

Left to right: My sister Carrie holding Rebekah, my mom holding Carrie's little girl Taylor, and me holding Joshua.

Next is just Carrie, my mom, and me

Me and my little blessings - How many times does it take to get a good shot with both kids?

Here are some candids of the kids

And guess what Darrin and the kids got me for Mother's Day?! A Wii!!! The bad thing is that it doesn't work. Darrin is going to have to exchange it as soon as Wal-Mart gets some more, otherwise, he'll have to send it to Nintendo. I wish we could have played it yesterday, but other than that I couldn't have asked for a better day than spending it with my family.