Mother's Day

This year I turned 32 on Mother's Day! Andy did his best to see that the day was extra special for me. He started off by supervising all three kids making french toast for breakfast. They all did a great job! Here are some photos of the great event: Dad cooking with all three kids while I sat and read a magazine and drank my coffee (I couldn't resist getting up to take a few pictures though!)

After a wonderful breakfast, Andy's folks came down and his mom and I took the boys to church. Their Sunday school teacher, Mrs. Barr is a wonderfully sweet woman who does a special Mother's Day get-together/program every year. It's really pretty special. The boys sang songs, recited scripture, gave us flowers and a plate with a picture of them modge-podged onto the center...cute! While we were at church, Andy and his Dad stayed home while Lizzie napped and then took her to the grocery store to buy all the groceries for a great lunch and dinner! I tried to make it a little easier on Andy by suggesting that maybe he buy an ice cream cake from Coldstone, but he insisted he was going to make a cake.

Chef Andy continued by grilling up some fantastic burgers for lunch. Then we all rested for awhile and watched the Phillies play while the kids napped. I asked once or twice about the cake and got stopped short, so I quit bugging them. Right as they were about to start all the dinner prep work, I mentioned it again and Andy said, "oh no, I totally forgot! We don't have enough time now, do we?" I let them off easy and said we could just go out to get ice cream instead. I like the ice cream better than the cake anyway. We agreed that's what we'd do and then he and Kimmy made a great dinner: grilled shrimp, grilled chicken, baked potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, and spinach salad (okay, I made the salad...they were working so hard to get all the rest done I just had to help out a little :-) ).Everything was yummy! Thanks, guys!

We all headed outside to play ball for awhile and then went in to get ready to go get ice cream. Up from the basement comes Andy carrying a big chocolate peanut butter cup ice cream cake from Coldstone!!!!! Little bugger got me! They all were in on it, even my neighbors, Al and Sandy who came over to go with us! So, it was a great day with lots of great food and I didn't cook a thing!!!

Thanks, guys, for making Mother's Day and my birthday so very special. I love you all so much and kids, I'm so thankful to be your Mommy. You all are so amazing and I just adore you and thank God for you every day.