Mother's Day Celebrations

On Friday, May 8, I attended the Mother's Day Program presented by Crosby's Kindergarten class.  And how sweet it was!  A few weeks ago he brought home this precious handmade invitation.  It made me smile every time I looked at it. :)  His class made a video, sang several songs and recited poems for us, made us each a placemat and a book and served punch and snacks!  It was a special day with my special boy.

I loved the book he made:

"Her favorite color is pink."

"For fun she likes to go to the park."

"I love when she cooks cookies for me."

The kids were so cute and sweet serving the drinks and muffins to their guests!

The classroom was decorated with these fun M-O-M balloons and a bouquet of beautiful roses.

Super blessed to be his mom (and Alexee's and Rhett's!!)

Alexee brought this gift home from school too--so sweet!  These gifts are the best.

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So back to our time in Flippin...after Stacie's wedding we stayed until Sunday/Mother's Day.  Everything was so pretty and green.  May is a great month in Arkansas!

The irises were in full bloom in Mom and Dad's yard.  They are one of my (many) favorites.

Alexee fell asleep in the chair around 6:00 p.m. on Saturday and slept after 6:30 a.m. on Sunday!  I think being a flower girl was very tiring!  I tried to wake her up that evening,  but she said she wanted to keep sleeping so Lane carried her up the stairs to the bed around 7 p.m.  I couldn't believe she slept right through all the other kids playing and running around!

Sunday after church
Happy Mother's Day!

Hard to believe how quickly my "babies" grew into school-age children.  I feel like I can barely even remember this season though!  :(

It was good to be with my mom, sister and grandmother on Mother's Day.  We all had lunch at my parents' house after church.  I'm grateful every day for these special women in my life.

And I'm also thankful for my wonderful mother-in-law/"Grammy" to the kids!!  What a blessing she is to us.  We are looking forward to having her and Bob here to visit us next weekend.

Dad, Rhett & Jaiden

My parents also celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in May, so we had yummy strawberry cake and (attempted to get) a family photo.  The photo didn't turn out great...we are going to try again with an outdoor setting next time we are all together, but at least we do have a picture all together.  

Happy 40th to Mom and Dad.  We love you!!