Mother's Day Weekend

We had a fun busy weekend. Friday night we helped Ian's parents with a District Scout Dinner, then Sat. morning I had our primary activity. It turned out great, it was about growing love in your family. I was in charge of helping the kids makes hershey kiss roses for their moms, and then they painted rocks for their dads that say "You rock!" Then they played games centered on helping in the house, and had dirt and worms (choc. pudding, oreos, and gummy worms) for a treat. I wasn't in charge this time, but it still feels good for it to be over. I took Malia and Cooper, and Gunner stayed home to help Dad mow the lawn and power wash.
We got home and I dropped off Malia and went to a friend's baby shower. She had her baby 4 weeks early so her week old baby was actually there. He's really cute, and joins the three other baby boys born recently in our ward.
Then I got home from that, and we planted our garden. The prophet said to plant a garden, not that everything had to grow right? This is definately an experiment. I grew up with my mom doing a wonderful garden, but I guess I didn't pay too much attention to the actual planting of it, (only the weeding and eating). So we will see if we actually produce anything. We planted corn, peas, cucumbers, carrots, radishes, pumkins, and a family in our ward gave us a bunch of plants too. So we also have about 4 different kinds of tomatoes, garlic, basil, and peppers.
Then we ate dinner and got the kids ready for bed, and I got to go out with friends for a girls night. Thanks Ian! We went to Roses and got dessert, yeah that is really helping my desire to look halfway decent in my swimsuit when we go to Hawaii in 2 1/2 weeks. But it definately was fun.
Then it would have been nice to sleep in on Mother's Day, but we have 8:30 church so that wasn't happening. I did get to go to Relief Society because the Priests came in to help with Primary. It was nice, they had cake, nuts, mints, and punch. (Yeah not helping either)
Then I actually got an uninterupted nap, which hasn't happened in forever! Ian was outside with the kids getting the BBQ ready for dinner. His family came over and he made the best ribs! My favorite! He is an awesome husband!



(I didn't get a picture of the finished product, they looked too good, and we were too hungry!)
And despite all the yelling I do sometimes :) I do love my kids and being a mom.

And I have to share this chubby little smile. Poor kid has a bad case of baby acne though. That was definately the worst day of it, thank goodness it doesn't look that bad anymore.