Mother's Day

This Mother's Day was not my typical Mother's Day.

My Mother's Day started early with these flowers delivered on Saturday morning.

Thanks honey!

Then, Sunday morning started early with the alarm going off at 6:30. After the boys presented me with their homemade gifts (very sweet), I got everyone ready and met the Weldons for brunch at The Ridge. It was a great brunch with delicious food and wonderful company. 

Then we headed over the the Weldon's house so I could get in my 4.5 mile run (why did I agree to to this race again?) without the kids in tow. It was an interesting run. 

But I got it done. 

After that, we headed back to our own house for naps and basement cleaning.

I did spend most of the day in pajamas so it was a pretty good day. 

I am one lucky mommy!

Busy Friday

Today was one busy day. It started with "Morning with Mom" at school. Every year before Mother's Day, the school hosts a breakfast for moms and their students. They provide doughnuts and coffee. It's a pretty fun morning. And I didn't have to worry about breakfast.

After we dropped off Josh at school, we headed home for a quick break before we drove over to a local fire station for a tour. My MOPS group set up a tour for all the kids. It was a lot of young kids but a lot of fun. Daniel was in heaven and shy for once. He spent a good amount of time hiding behind my back so the firefighter wouldn't see him. Weird.

After a crazy lunch at Chick fil'a, we headed over to a birthday party for one of Daniel's classmates. We got there, got some snacks, then another mom offered to bring Daniel home, so Patrick and I took off so he could get a nap. What a treat for me!

After we picked up Josh from school, we got home and got ready for the evening. The Weldons were nice enough to offer dinner so after we packed the car, we headed over there. We enjoyed a nice dinner with them and then Patrick, Josh, Tom, and I headed over to the fields. Josh had a baseball game that started at 7:30. He was pretty excited because that meant he got to play under the lights.

It was a very intense game that lasted over two hours. They played the top team in their division who had only allowed 3 runs in all of their 7 games. Josh's team went into the final inning down 9-0 but mounted an amazing comeback and the game ended in a 9-9 tie. Josh hit a double at a crucial time to keep them alive. It was a great game. We ended up getting home at 10:30 with both Josh and Patrick still awake and Daniel sleeping in the car. 

Ready to do some more games tomorrow.

Fun Mail Tradition

This is just a fun tradition I want to remember. 

Every day after school we go get the mail. In our neighborhood we have a community mailbox. At our house closing we were told we are box #2 and given a key. So now, even though we can see a mailbox from our front porch, everyday we walk down the street and around the corner to get the mail. 

Both bigger boys are big enough to put the key in themselves so they take turns "getting the mail" (even though Josh gets the mail everyday since Daniel is not tall enough to reach it, Daniel does get to put the key and open the door). 

On the days when we drive (directly from school), and it is nice enough, the big boys like to race the car home. That gives Patrick the opportunity to join in. I roll down his window and he gets to yell "go" to tell the boys to start. It's pretty cute. 

It's a fun tradition all the boys enjoy. 

Easter Sunday

The morning started early (for Dad any way) with searching for Easter baskets (Mom didn't get up in time). The big boys went all over the house looking. I guess the Easter bunny was tricky this year.

Then everyone got dressed and headed to church. It was a nice service for Mom and Dad and the boys enjoyed Sunday school. 

After church we came home and went on an egg hunt. They loved running around the backyard picking up eggs. 

Then we had Tom, Shelley, and Alex over for a nice ham lunch. We enjoyed some games and yummy desserts. It was a pretty perfect Sunday.

This was the best picture I could get of the three of them. I guess I had them staring into the sun. Oops!

Happy Easter!

Dying Easter Eggs

We found some time this evening to dye our Easter eggs. Daniel found a kit at the store called Volcano Eggsplosion that he had to have, so I caved and bought it. It sounded fun. Unfortunately, I didn't read the directions which starts with shaving five crayons. This was not a fun nor easy task. Needless to say, we will not do this next year. The end result was pretty cool though.

Patrick really got into it this year. He was blow away with how the eggs changed colors. Every time he would lift his egg out of the dye he would go "Wow". It was pretty cute.

Of course the older boys knew the drill. Daniel put his in all orange and then all yellow. I guess he didn't want to hold it.

Josh went for the two-toned effect.

I think they turned out pretty well.

We ended the evening with a great meal consisting of grilled pork tenderloin and asparagus. Dad was pretty pleased with the pork.

Enjoy!

MOPS Easter Egg Hunt

Each year in MOPS they put together an egg hunt at a local park. The moms bring food and filled eggs. This year some dads joined us and they got recruited to "hide" the eggs. It was a nice morning. We played at the park for quite some time, had some food, and then hunted some eggs. Daniel remembered from last year what you got in the eggs so he was super excited for the hunt and took off on his own when they said it started. Patrick wasn't so sure but figured it out pretty quickly. He was cute, walking around with his basket and picking up eggs. 

It was a great time.

Spring Snow

It snowed 6" inches overnight (which is pretty typical for April) and while most of it has melted, Daniel and I took advantage this afternoon and made a snowman. Well, I made a snowman while Daniel watched. Apparently rolling snow is hard. Who knew?

Thanks to our friends in Minnesota we have some awesome accessories to dress him up. 

Happy Spring everyone!