Happy Mother's Day!

It's been a long extended weekend for me in a way, and after being gone for 3 days it feels good to be home. On Thursday, the kids and I headed for my sisters for a long weekend. Greg had to work late Thursday and Friday night, as well as work today for a bit so I figured we might as well do something. With our vacation quickly approaching, I didn't know when we'd get a chance to get that way to visit so this was the best weekend to go. The weather unfortunately took a turn for the worse and it was absolutely freezing! I thought it was going to be in the upper 50's low 60's, but nope that didn't happen. It ended up only being in the 40's most of the time. I definitely didn't pack the right clothes and we had to make do with what we had.

On Friday my sister had to work, but she told me to bring the kids in for a visit if we wanted. We didn't have much planned and the kids were going a little stir crazy in the house so we ended up going to visit so we could see where she works. The kids had fun and got to color at Aunt Jen's desk and make her some pictures to hang up. Here's the kids at Aunt Jen's desk.


My niece Kaite was supposed to have a softball game Friday night, but due to rainy weather and storms it got canceled. The kids were disappointed, but there was another game on Saturday. Although the weather wasn't much better on Saturday, it wasn't raining come game time so we headed to the ball park. It was freezing cold though so we ended up spending most of the game time watching from the car. Sitting in the freezing cold in May for some reason just wasn't sounding good to me. We did get out for a short time finally to go get a closer look at the game. Since I only had spring coats for the kids and they really needed winter coats, they had to borrow Kaite's sweatshirts to put over their clothes. Here's my poor little freezing peanuts.


Unfortunately a couple minutes after we had gotten out of the car it began to rain. I wasn't into sitting in the rain either so we headed back to the car and I didn't even have time to get a close up picture of Kaite playing in her game. So this is the best I got from the car.


She's on third base and soon after I snapped the picture, she took off for home and scored a run. She had a few hits, got walked due to being hit by the ball, and scored two runs. Unfortunately her team lost by one point. She did a great job though and the kids were happy they got to see Kaite play.

The kids got a surprise from Aunt Jen and Kaite. They got some goody bags filled with stuff for our road trip. Here they are waiting to get their surprise. Evan covered his eyes and Em quickly followed.

They got books, games, coloring books & crayons, snacks, etc. to keep them busy on our trip. It was a nice surprise and the kids loved everything. Thanks Aunt Jen & Kaite for everything.

Saturday evening my Mom came down to stay the night and we celebrated Mother's Day with her. She picked up pizzas at one of our favorite places in good ol' Niles where we grew up, Pete's Patio. I know many of you have never heard of the place, but believe me it's the best pizza ever. It's a place we as kids went to often and have always loved the pizza there. We rarely get it now, but it sounded good to all of us so we got it for dinner Saturday. It really hit the spot and was so delicious! Thanks Mom for picking up the pizzas!

Now here we are to Sunday and it's Mother's Day. Being a mother is one of the most rewarding, thankless, frustrating, emotional, satisfying, and blessed jobs a mom could ever have!!!! I am so blessed to have the two wonderful children in my life that made me become a mom. I'll always remember the first time I heard them call me mom. Such an awesome time. I love it when they call me mom, mommy, momma, they all sound great to me. This year I was able to celebrate Mother's Day with all the Mom's in my life. This morning with my Mom at my sister's house since she had stayed the night. Much better than a year ago which if you recall, my mom fell off a ladder when we were at her house and ended up in the ER with a broken wrist and ankle. Then after that at my Dad & Step-Mom's before we headed home. Then when we got home I was surprised by the kids and Greg with a beautiful plant for outside (which hopefully it will warm up so I can plant), and and iTunes gift card. And for dinner we went to Champps with Greg's mom. All mom's ate free this weekend for Mother's Day and all mom's also got a re-loadable gift card to use once a month from June until next April worth $165 ($15 a month). How awesome is that? Such a great deal. Tonight, Evan, Emmaline, Greg, & I all snuggled in bed for awhile before Em's bedtime which was a perfect ending to a nice day. My munchkins are getting big to fast and I just love being able to snuggle up with them. So Happy Mother's Day to all you mom's out there! Thanks to my Evan and Emmaline for the Mother's Day wishes, I'm proud to be your Mom!