A Good Mother's Day...

...I decided I would post tonight so that tomorrow I can get serious about this packing thing.  I really don't think that it is going to be that bad, but if I continue to put it off it WILL be that bad.  It needs to be done, no more excuses, no more stalling.  Just time to pack.  I have a little over a week. Phew.

So, Mother's Day. It was great.  Jason has come up with little traditions for the day.  Each kid has something that they get me every year.  Alaina always gets me a gift certificate/card to a coffee shop.  I will be drinking A LOT of coffee this week!  I already had one $10 GC for the coffee shop up the street and now I have another.  $20 in one week.  I will be flying high!  LOL!  Caleb always takes me out to Pizza Hut.  Not the fanciest meal!  LOL! Don't know why or how that started, but I know we went when he was just eight days old and we have gone every year since.  Here are some of our not-so-great Pizza Hut pictures through the years!

This is only Levi's second Mother's Day, but he has started a little tradition of getting me a coffee mug (I collect them).  Last year he got me one with the name of our school on it. We still hadn't gotten a Nebraska mug (we like to get one from every place we have lived) but I think Jason was running out of time and our town is SMALL so he got one from the little coffee shop.  I ended up getting another one, the Nebraska one I really wanted (the only mug I have ever seen in this state that doesn't have HUSKERS plastered all over it!)

Jason always gets me a gift certificate for a massage so I have that to look forward to this week.  I may get my hair done, too, or maybe a pedicure.  We'll see.  Can't wait.

So, our plan today was to go to church, then go to lunch, and then see what we felt like doing.  So at 10:00 we were almost ready to leave when I told Jason I had another plan.  I really wanted to just get away for the day as a family.  If we are around home, we just sit around and spend most of the day saying, "what should we do?" (there is really not much to do in a town of 3000). I did NOT want to do that.  I also didn't want to be home since if I am home I am tempted to be on the computer (or dare I say it?  I might even be tempted to do laundry!  NOT on Mother's Day!) So, we decided to skip church and head to Kearney for the day.  Food, shopping, just being together.  The kids were all really tired (long day yesterday!) so they slept in the car while Jason and I listened to a great Mother's Day sermon by John Piper that Jason had downloaded to his iPod.  Really good stuff.  I love quality sermons (I am sure our pastor's sermon would have been great, too.  The first pastor I have really liked in a long time!)  So we had lunch, went to Target and Old Navy, let the kids play at the toy store, just took it easy.  I also picked up that Nebraska mug I wanted.  I saw it there a few months ago and liked it but for some reason didn't buy it.  If I had known we were going today, I would have had Jason wait to buy me a  mug.  Oh well.

It was just really good to be away (and out of the 90 degree weather!)

Once we got home I told Jason I wanted to spend the rest of the evening scrapping, so he did bedtime with the kids and let me scrap with some of the new goodies I have been picking up.  Felt good.

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Yesterday was graduation for our school.  There are still three more days of school for everyone else, but the seniors are done. So that meant going to the graduation ceremony and then to some parties (they call them receptions here, I grew up calling them open houses, call them whatever you want).  It was good, but sad too.  We had to say goodbye to two of the girls that we were closest to this year.  So good to be a part of their lives.

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Okay, on to some LO's and then one fun picture before I call it a night.

Credits can be seen HERE

Credits can be seen HERE

Credits can be seen HERE

Haven't uploaded this one yet -- kraft paper by Gina Cabrera, paper by Lori Barnhurst, ribbons and fun stitching by Michelle Coleman, photo corners by Corina Neilson, date stamp by Gina Cabrera, alpha by Fee Jardin.

Phew!  Felt good to scrap!  I have really missed it and I know I will miss it over the next few weeks as we move and go on vacation.  Hopefully I can sneak some in once in a while :)

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Oh!  I almost forgot!  I finally unpacked my grab bags and put everything into my shop. So if you missed the grab bags, here is what you would have gotten (and can now get!)

The April Grab Bag:

And the May Grab Bag...

(and there was also a special coupon in there!)

Now you can get all of these in my SHOP at Scrapbook Graphics!

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Okay, I keep saying I am going to go, but then I think of things I forgot to mention (but wanted to!)  Just a funny little thing...

Alain has become obsessed with the Shabby Princess. She must have heard me say something to Jason a few weeks back because last week she asked me about my princess friend.  I had no idea what she was talking about.  Then she told me I was talking to Daddy about a princess and she wanted to know who it was!  After a few minutes I asked her if she heard, "Shabby Princess."  "Yea!  That's it!" she said.  She was really excited about it.  I told her that she had a little boy about her age and that made her even happier.  I told her his name, etc. and she was all giddy. So she talks about them almost every day.  Then last week we were at Hobby Lobby and I was picking up some paper stuff for some hyrbid projects.  I found a piece of SP's paper from her Bo Bunny line and I showed Alaina on the back where it said "Shabby Princess."  I hadn't planned on buying it (it was a fall theme) but she insisted. Now every day she gets out the paper and shows me the back where it says Shabby Princess and asks about the "little boy her age."  LOL!  What a hoot.

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Okay, I really am going.  But I did promise one fun picture.  What's the phrase?  "When the cat is away the mice will play?"  If Caleb ever sees this picture I will be guaranteed some cries and some screams of "No LEVI!"  Caleb was out with Jason the other day so I let Levi do the unthinkable...

Have a great Monday!

Comments

[Rona]

LOL on that last pic! I can hear Caleb, too! hehehe. something my younger son would do(the screaming, I mean, while my older son would be doing what Levi's doing, lol!)

Gorgeous LOs with the old pics. I'm jealous! :) Gotta have my mom look for our older pics too and have them scanned.

Happy Mother's Day!

[Stephanie]

Loving that last picture! My boys were the exact same way when they were little (who am I kidding, some days they are the same now at 13 & 11 LOL). I just hope that they will appreciate each other more as they get older. I'm betting you feel the same =) Happy packing!

[KellieP]

I am so glad you all had a great day together...I think your traditions are soooooo cute!

Your new pages are gorgeous!

[leslie]

i am cracking up at that last picture. My 7 yo DD is at school all day and my 2 yo DS wants in her room so bad - she has a baby gate to keep him out:) BUT sometimes I do let him in there to play with her horses/stable. She would die - and sometimes she can tell if he's been in there:)

[MandaKay]

Glad you had a great mother's day! Can't believe you are packing up and heading out! How fun! Good luck packing and I LOVE the eye candy you left us as usual!!!