Early Mothers Day Celebration!

On Friday night we celebrated Mother's Day.  The kids had made nice notes for me and Shawn had bought a dutch oven and some workout clothes for me.  It was a nice evening.  We celebrated early because on Saturday morning Shawn took off with Tim and Matt for a week long motorcycle adventure.  They are down in New Mexico right now.  On Saturday afternoon we met Russ's family at Grammy's to work in her yard.  We worked together for 2.5 hours and got the beds wedded and the yard looking really good.  Grammy said it was the best Mother's Day gift she has ever got.  We were fairly tired Saturday night, so grammy came over to eat on the deck and I ran and got some IN and OUT burgers.  Yesterday was Mother's Day.  We had our own Sunday School and then Russ and Secario came over to bring us the Sacrament and we had a little meeting.  In the afternoon we picked Grammy up (that was her first time in my car in over 2 months) and we took a Sunday drive.  We drove up and over the mountain in Draper into Lehi and then Up American Fork Canyon. The gate was closed to get over to Sundance but it was still a pretty drive and Grammy was happy.  I love being a MOM SO MUCH.  I am so grateful I have children and I get to be their mom.  It is hard too. I want my kids to be good, productive, smart, kind, caring kids and trying to instill that in them is harder than I thought-so I am working on my patience and trying to figure out ways to connect with each of them that will help them want that for themselves because they feel loved and admired, because they are so much by me!!

 Love that Cruz will still write me love notes.

 Lexi made these "fighter jets" to go all the way up the stairs with nice notes on them. She can be so creative!!

 Cute Olive, that Lexi wrapped up in her blanky!

 Primary dropped off this little Mothers Day craft kit for the girls to make me.  That was super cute!!!