Mothers Day

My lovely principal let me leave for a while so I could go to Elia's mother's day tea.  It was adorable.  They sang songs and we did a craft, and then there were snacks.  During all the songs with the hand motions, Elia would do the motions and sing, but her face was turned toward me the whole time.  So funny!

Love my girl.

For the actual mother's day, I got to sleep in, and had bed in breakfast.  I also told the girls I didnt want ANY presents, all I wanted was no fighting.  They did pretty good that day!

Very proud of their work!

Mother's Day Weekend

Our family had a pretty fun weekend!  It started off with Chris and I's first Ranger's game of the season.  Uncle Patrick babysat while we double dated with Sam and John.  Then everyone came back to our house to barbecue and play Settlers.

Mother's day was good too.  Chris let me sleep in and the girls helped him make breakfast for me.  After church we spent most of the day doing yardwork.  Just like last year, we are trying to do a lot to our yard for the girl's birthday party.  We are extending our patio with some flagstone and getting rid of some dead trees.

This is where the extended patio will be. 

When Gianna saw them doing this, she said mom, look at all those brothers working together!

Mothers Day Tea

Today the girls had a mother's day tea for all the moms.  Gianna was super excited becasue she helped her teacher make the blueberry muffins.  Earlier in the week her teacher asked G different questions.  Gianna infrormed her teacher that I am 20 years old and that my favorite thing to do is clean the house!  Not so sure about the whole clean the house thing but I sure do it a lot so I guess that shows I like it!
Elia's tea was cute too.  I got a pretty sweet plant from her.

Mother's Day Tea

So I took a 1/2 day on Thursday so I could go to G's mother's day preschool tea. It started out in the church with a reading and then all the little preschoolers got to put a flower by the statue of Mary.

In true Elia fashion, she was horrible since she had to sit still in a church pew. She did manage to make a quick phone call though.

Afterwards we had tea and cake and it was so cute. The student dipped the chocolate pretzel lthemselves!

After that all the kids ran around in a circle until G's teacher miraculously got all the kids to sit in a circle. I could never be a preschool teacher!

So sweet, so fun, and so glad I could take the morning off to spend it with G!

Mothers Day

Mothers Day started out on Friday for me! Chris came home from work and took the girls on a 90 minute bike ride. So I got to stay in a quiet, kid-free house and drink a beer while watching TV. It was seriously glorious. If Chris/Gianna hadn't gotten me anything else, I would have been happy with Friday night! Then on Saturday all 4 of us went on a bike ride together, with one of my mother's day gifts- a new pair of sports sunglasses. (Now that I am wearing contacts full time, I can finally wear sunglasses too-yay!) Our bike rides always end up at a park, so the girls have so much fun. Then on Sunday I slept in until 8am. If you don't have kids you might think that 8 is not a big deal, BUT IT IS! And when I finally rolled out of bed, I was treated to strawberry pancakes and eggs, yum yum. Then off to church and home again. We had a little family over for a bbq. The girls played outside on the new playground while the parents got to drink beer and talk about LOST. Anyway, a great day was had by all, but me especially! I am so thankful to have my sweet girls and great husband in my life!

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