I Am a Mother!

This was a wonderful Mother's Day. I woke up and found this set-up in the kitchen. Dave woke up at 3:30 in the morning and spent 3 hours making it. He handcrafted the flowers out of a pages from a notepad complete with spaghetti noodle stems, and placed in empty plastic juice bottles. That is ingenuity (or recycling) at it's best! I loved them better than real flowers, because these took time and thought. (However, Dave, you can't get away with this every year. :) ) He also bought my favorite vanilla sandwich cookies and yummy donuts a week in advance. Apparently they were hiding all week with our pots and pans. He's lucky that I didn't need our large pot for any dinners this week. The Propel water is meant to replace my other water bottle that I've been using since June of last year. How thoughtful! He also tucked a wonderful love note under my placemat. He is so so sweet. I am so so blessed to have him!!
Derek and Taylor made cards and flowers in Primary. The "flower" was a fudge striped cookie held onto a bendy straw with gumdrops. Apparently Taylor ate his at church. It was cute how he described what happened to it. I tried to recreate his description in this video....

Anyway, their cards were cute. The teacher wrote "Mother I Love You..." and Derek told her to write "because she lets me go to my cousins' house." Hmm...Does he love me or his cousins' house better??? :) Taylor's said "because she gets my church clothes out for me." What a thoughtful 3 year old!! Our bishopric gave all the women a long-stemed red rose. Got to love that!

After church we went to my parents' house for a bbq. I love spending time up there with my family. It was a fun end to a great day. Really though, every day feels like Mother's Day around here...well, most days anyway. :)