Mother's Day 2012

Mother's Day was lovely.  Ben and the kids always go above and beyond.  I got these beautiful hydrangeas....

And Ben and the kids made me a delicious breakfast - lemon blueberry pancakes (which were really amazing), bacon, strawberries, and orange juice.  As in the past years, the girls cut up the strawberries all by themselves.  Then Ben made an impressive coconut lemon cake - using a real coconut!  What a man I have...

A couple days before, Ben took me out shopping for new makeup - he knew I needed some new stuff in that department.  Really, i couldn't ask for a better guy.  He spoils me and I love it.  The girls gave me the cutest little gifts they had made at their schools - This first one was from Becca (you can click on the picture to make it bigger)...

These next couple are part of the gift that Emma gave me - there were many pages - these were my favorites though...

(I laughed that Emma included "cornflakes" on the list of things I like to shop for... I recently came home with 10 boxes of cornflakes that I almost got for free from the couponing... Becca appears to be only one who will eat them though... haha)

(It took me a minute till I noticed something odd about Emma's rendition of the inside of my purse... you see that squiggly layer at the bottom?  Well, I asked Emma what that was supposed to be, and she says "all the crumbs and gross stuff at the bottom!".... the truth hurts.)

Church was wonderful - I got to enjoy going to Relief Society during the last hour - I'm no longer in Primary, but was recently called to Young Women's, so I've still been missing out on attending Relief Society on Sunday.  But they had all the young women help out in Primary, so that all the women with primary and young women callings could attend.  We got served a delicious lunch too!  It was wonderful.  After church, we spent the evening at Emily's house and had a yummy dinner, Ben's mother's day cake, and enjoyed each other's company.  I love being a mother... and I love MY mother.  She's the best.  I can't wait to see her soon - one more week!