It was a great Mother's Day week around here.
On Tuesday evening I met a friend for dinner and shopping. Since having kids, I think I've only met with groups of other girls, and it was really fun to enjoy an expensive dinner and chatting. Unfortunately, I struck out at Old Navy for myself and ended up only buying a belt for Ryan.
On Thursday I picked up another friend, and we headed to the mall for National Mom's Nite Out. It was pretty lame, so we ended up leaving after 20 minutes and going to the Kid's Consignment Sale. I found a few toys, and it ended up being a successful evening.
On Saturday morning I headed back to the Consignment Sale (Half Price Day!) and scored a few more cheap toys.
Then on Saturday afternoon, after hours of planning and worrying, Ryan and I went on a date! We left Collin AND Brennan with our 17-year old neighbor and went to the Luthy Botanical Gardens. Then we got ice cream in Peoria Heights and strolled through their downtown. We even stumbled upon their local arts & crafts street fair. It reminded us of the summer festivals in Utah when we lived there. No stroller, no sippys, no binkies... The weather was amazing, and the company was even better!
On Sunday morning I finally decided I'd be willing to sit in front of the camera (notice the placement of the children in front of my gut) to get a picture with my boys.
Aren't they handsome?Another wonderful gift was that Ryan rode with us to AND from church. No meetings before or after! That's a miracle. Then after church, Ryan made us steak, baked potatoes, asparagus and smoothies. It was delicious! We ate while both boys took naps.
And church must have been particularly exhausting for the toddlers, because Collin took a 3-1/2 hour nap, that I finally woke him up from at 6:30pm. Happy Mother's Day to me!
And church must have been particularly exhausting for the toddlers, because Collin took a 3-1/2 hour nap, that I finally woke him up from at 6:30pm. Happy Mother's Day to me!Some consequences of my fabulous week were that I had to pump 4 times (four bottles for my baby in a week; that must be some record!), and Ryan made marginal progress on the swingset project. Oh well. It was totally worth it.
Happy Mother's Day to all the women in my life!
3 comments:
You look great!! Glad you had a nice Mother's Day.
Gut?! Yeah, right, Linds. I totally don't believe you have one considering you never really looked that pregnant in the first place. :) You look beautiful (as always). Sounds like an awesome week. Yeah, Dave walked to and from church with us and it felt SO STRANGE! What a happy day for me too. I'll blog about it sometime. I'm glad you've got stellar nappers... if only they could teach my children how to do that. :)
Sounds like a great week! I need to start implementing Mother's Day week around these parts...
Oh, and you look beautiful! I highly doubt you have gut. Make sure to get more pictures of yourself with (and without) the boys. You've got to document yourself in your family history too. The moms are always the ones behind the camera :)
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