Mother's Day 2009

Mother's Day is always a reminder of how much I love my family. It's a little tradition of mine that I take a picture with my kids on Mother's Day. This year we had a pretty busy day because we had all my family over for dinner, so I didn't get my picture until the very end of the day when all the kiddos were ready for bed. No worries - I still got my picture! I am a little crazed about taking pictures of the family I love so much. Brad and the kids got me a perfect Mother's day gift - a digital picture frame. Now I just have to get some of the 10,000+ photos that I've taken over the last 3 years that are in my iPhoto library loaded onto the frame. Choosing which ones will be quite a task!

We were the hosts for our monthly family potluck dinner, which happened to land on Mother's Day this year. We missed my brother Jared and his family because of sick kids. Bummer! For our dinner, I decided that what we should have "girl" food in honor of the moms. The boys were not all that excited about idea of "girl" food, but I think everyone was pleased at the outcome. We had flank steak salad, Chinese chicken salad, fruit salsa with cinnamon chips, and bread. For dessert we had Mike's famous molten chocolate cake with ice cream at the request of my mom. Sadly, I did not take a picture of the dessert - what was I thinking?


I took minimal pictures this year, so I only have a few to share from our evening . . .

Madi has been into wearing the highest possible shoes and standing up to everyone to see how tall she is next to them. She especially enjoys being taller than me - although she can do that without the heels! Actually, I think she really enjoys towering over me in her heels. Here she is relishing in the fact that she's almost as tall as Poppy!


I was able to sneak a quick picture with Ben, but didn't get one with any of my girls until the end of the night. I think they were all busy with cousins!


Mom got a Kindle - something she really wanted. We all chipped in to buy it for her, and she wasn't expecting it at all.


My brother, Mike (aka master molten cake maker), didn't want his picture taken because he didn't want to be on the blog. So, this of course, (being the annoying big sister that I am), made me want to take his picture just so I could include him in this blog post. So - here's Mike hiding from me, then semi-cooperating by getting his picture taken with his mommy & his adorable wife, Karla. Ahhhhh - isn't he cute?? I love you Mike, even though I know you'll never even read this post! :)