Mother's Day Weekend

As usual, my husband outdid himself with Mother's Day this year. I sure am lucky.

For me, it started on Saturday when Joseph helped me to make time to clean out van. You may think it strange, but this was a BIG Mother's Day gift for me. I don't even think Joseph realizes it. :) There are few things that calm my stresses as much as a clean vehicle. After we cleaned it all out, we rearranged the car seats and were able to fit all three of them in the back seat. It is awesome! It gives us so much more room and makes Kaitlyn SO happy. When we set her in her seat for the first time, she just kept looking back and forth from Alex to Rebekah and giggling. We didn't tell them to do this by the way. They just did it on their own.

Then we headed out to Alex's soccer group, tried to fly a kite (unsuccessfully again), and played on the playground with Amber and Cory and Harrison. After which we all went to CAFE RIO (originally just a Utah place) together. Sigh....it was better than I even remembered. Definitely, hands down, my all time favorite casual place to eat. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. I wish I would have taken pictures there.

So then, our usually tradition is to get ice cream after soccer, but we were hoping they would forget since we had gone to a restaurant. No such luck. Kids are like elephants. They never forget. We usually just head to McD's or Dairy Queen for their cheap $1 cones....this time, it being the last soccer of the season (since we got our money back), we decided to take the kids to Cold Stone. No Sheila...I didn't get anything! UGH!! Can you believe it?! Stupid Biggest Loser.

Anyway, if any of you know Alex well, you will be surprised to see anything but vanilla ice cream in his hand. However, let the record show...he got something else! ONLY Cotton Candy ice cream could have lulled this kid away from his precious vanilla....and check out that grin.

Pretty sure Kaitlyn is in heaven...she inherited my tenacious sweet tooth.

The cotton candy choice for this chica did not surprise me at all. She always goes for the good stuff. :)

On Mother's Day, I was spoiled. Joseph had all sorts of secret plans with the kids. The first being getting me a CTR ring. Alex apparently remembered that when his teacher gave him his CTR ring a few months ago, I said that I didn't have one, but would like one. He insisted on picking one out for me. Such a sweet boy. He was SO excited to give it to me. Rebekah made me a really cute picture in nursery and Alex made me a necklace at school (that I am wearing, but you can't see it) and this crown in primary. I love my beautiful children....and I definitely had a lot of happy tears on Mother's Day. I was so overwhelmed by the love my kids have for me and by the blessing it is to be a mother.

Joseph, in his usual creative fashion, sent me on a bananagram scavenger hunt. I had to solve the puzzle to know my present. I love his gifts.

I first found the one that said, "Look inside the yellow banana." I looked there and had to solve the next puzzle. "Day off and lunch with friend." AWESOME! I love this present. The last puzzle was on the back of a free one-time pass for me and a friend to LA Boxing...a fitness place I have been wanting to try out for a while. 

Little did I know that this wasn't all. I woke up early the next morning for my workout, only to find a weight bar sitting downstairs just waiting to be used. I love you Joseph. You treat me WAY better than I deserve.