My Lovely Mother's Day

I had a great Mother's Day this year. Craig got up and cleaned the whole house, and took care of the kids. It was great!

I told him I wanted flowers for the yard, but I figured it wouldn't happen. When you have no money you pretty much always no how much money you don't have. Well Craig got a check that I didn't know about and used it to by me some pretty flowers for the yard. He also bought me some berry bushes.



And, of course, some treats.



The boys nursery leader had tons of things planned for mothers day. So many cute and special cards from all my little men.



With no money I came up with this idea as a gift for grandma's, and great grandma's.



We attached a poem that read:

Dandelions aren't much more
Then some annoying weed
But when a gift from a child
They're loveliness indeed

Treasures, trinkets, buttons & bows
May be junk to some
But every little child knows
What specialness can come

Keep this jar some place nice
And fill it with the grand
Special gifts and precious flowers
Picked by little hands

Happy Mother's Day!

It's kind of dumb, but oh well.

We ended the day with a nice dinner at my parents house. My Grandma A even joined us. I really enjoyed my special day this year! I hope the other mother's in my life had just as great of a day.

Mother's Day

This year we celebrated Mother's Day on Friday the 6th since Craig had work all weekend. I asked Craig if we could go to the the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point because tulips are my FAVORITE and I have NEVER been. So took me there he did and it was wonderful!




The Gardens are beautiful and there was so much to see. We started in the children's section. It was such a neat place I bet we could've stayed there all day.





They had caves and windows to let you see under the water-- though you really couldn't see much :)



They had hedge mazes too-- Little H was a little afraid to go in. We actually got lost in this one.



A water feature you could play in.



And trails that wondered off the paved path. My adventurous Big H loved these-- he loves exploring and he's very independent. Little H was a little nervous though. We convinced him to go on this trail, but he wouldn't go on any others.



There was so much to see in the kids section I was worried I wouldn't get to see the wonderful tulips. But we finally made it down to the festival.

We stopped at this doughnut place to get a snack and they had some of the most wonderful food-- the doughnuts were delicious and the corn dogs were amazing!



I got this strawberry desert. It was like strawberry shortcake only it was made with doughnuts instead of angel food cake. It was to die for!



After our snack Craig purchased this lovely parasol for me. I seriously have wanted one of these my whole life-- one like this and one of those fancy frilly old fashioned ones. Apparently my children have been wanting one their whole lives too. It was the hit of the evening and they kept fighting over it. Big H was the most in love with it. Here you see him pouting because I told him to give Little H a turn.



Finally we made the trip down to the gardens to view the tulips.














By the way Big H is the one holding the parasol in all these pictures. Except for the last one.

Everything was Beautiful! The only thing that could have made it better is if my camera's batteries weren't low, and if I had wiped off that smudge on the lens. Oh, and more tulips would have been awesome of course! But those matters are simply trivial. Everything else about the festival was perfect.

Did I mention Thanksgiving Point has this awesome waterfall feature. I think it's the tallest man made waterfall in the United States or something. Anyway, you can walk through the waterfall feature which is really cool!





Once again Big H refused to put down the parasol

After we made the rounds of the festival we came back to the vendors to get more awesome food. We got some more deep fried stuff from the doughnut place-- pretty much all of their food was fantastic! And Craig and I each got a Navajo Taco because when you're at a festival, and they have Navajo Tacos, that's what you get. At least if you're me.




And we also bought the boys their own parasols because they wouldn't stop fighting over mine. Aren't they so cute? When Big H got his he danced around holding it. Laughing and screaming all the while. He was so pleased with that parasol. Of course, Little H followed in his tread. ;)



This was truly a wonderful Mother's Day Celebration! The only thing that could have made it better is if Craig could have been with me on Sunday.



While Craig was at work all weekend we continued to celebrate our wonderful mothers. My Grandma Andreason joined us for a BBQ on Saturday, and I made my mom Breakfast and dinner on Sunday. We also visited Grandma Andreason and Grandma and Grandpa Guthrie on Sunday. It was all really enjoyable despite a kind of difficult time at church :)




Hope every mom enjoyed their special day!

May 9, 2010: Our Mother's Day

Mother's Day began early for me when I found that stomach ache was something more. But even though I was up all night, and slept for most of the day, I had a pretty good day. We used a free $20.00 gift card from Target to get me a Maternity Swim Suit. And Craig, being the wonderful husband he is, put together the dinner I had planned for my mom, without me asking. And he also dressed the boys in their "I Love My Mommy" Onesies.

Later that day we got the boys all dressed up and took them to a pond to try and get pics for the upcoming baby contest.









Then we went to my parents to eat our Mother's Day feast. Everyone enjoyed Salmon, except me and my sis-in-law, along with a yummy Mandarin Chicken Salad and french fries.