Happy Mother's Day.

Happy Mother's Day!

So grateful to have these three, even if they do wear me out.

It is also nice to be banished from the kitchen and from cleaning for a day.

I love my husband.

The past few weeks

The past few weeks have been really hard. Thank you friends for really helping me out. You know who you are. I really couldn've managed without you.

So a few events occurred ....

This little man turned 2!!!! His cake was so cute, compliments of Hello Cupcake. It had chocolate spiders, centipedes, and ants on top. This doesn't give you the best view, and of course I failed to take pictures of it before it was devoured. He thought it was great though.

This guy went to Cancun... I was so jealous. On my anniversary too. But he earned it. He celebrated without me, and presented his paper at a conference.

He brought me back this, and I knew I was loved and missed.

Other than that normal chaos as usual.

Bluebonnets

Wednesday was a crazy day.

I was really feeling the desire to go to the temple this week. Wednesday was our ward's fill the temple day so Tuesday night I prayed hard that Baby B would sleep well that night, and the kids and I got up early and met Gary at seminary (he is currently the seminary teacher). Then we headed up, with some still in pj's and the house not nearly as neat as it should've been and headed to the temple. It was wonderful.

On the way home we decided to head up 290 for a quick photo among the bluebonnets. Of course we got a call to show our house on the way... did I mention we were listing our house? Anyway, you have 3 hours from the time they call to have your house picked up and knowing the state of the house that morning (not dirty, just not picked up or vacuumed, we needed at least 1 hour). So the stress began to find bluebonnets (there were NONE). I was giving it 5 minutes and then we had to turn the car toward home.

Miss L quickly said a prayer that we would find bluebonnets, and with the faith of a child, we topped the next hill and there they were. I can't say I was instantly calm, probably from the pictures you can tell that Baby B and Lil' G had to be woken up, but we did get some and it will be a fun memory for the future.

We did make it home with 45 minutes to spare and a did get our house clean...

Sunhats

We went to the Riverwalk this afternoon to give dad a break. The kids all wore their new sunhats. We checked for blackberries, we found about a dozen, but they'll be more ripe next week. We picked flowers. We found big sticks. We swang on the swings and stepped on fire ant piles. I love spring in texas.

Adjusting to 3

3 Baby Burritos

Yeah mom, my brother's baby blessing outfit clearly doesn't fit me, which means it is not gonna fit me next month. Remember I was 9 lbs, not 6.... I couldn't even get the back buttoned.

It amazes me that despite all the chaos in our family, exhibited tonight by children running around the kitchen for 1/2 hour playing chase, this little one remains suprisingly calm, in fact he didn't cry make a peep (and he may have been mauled by siblings 2-3 times during the process) until I put him in his bed by himself. I think he likes the chaos.

Rough Night

We had a rough night last night. Every member of the family was up at least once between 2 and 4. (the picture is actually last week, it just resembles how we feel today)

I am going to take a nap right now...

Photo Session

Each of my kids I have done a photo session with. Here is Baby B.

Here is lil' G.