Mother's Day Weekend

Mother's Day weekend this year was a pretty laid back. Friday I spent the morning out with Faith doing or normal Friday stuff, but we also spent some time buying loads of flowers to plant in the yard and took the time to go out to a nice lunch together. She also helped me pick out the most beautiful vase of  flowers for the inside from them and Daddy for Mother's Day.
Once back home with all the flowers, our weekend got even better with the arrival of Great Aunt Sue from her road trip from Omaha. She arrived with hugs for all and some sunflowers for me (my favorite).  We visited a bit and since the rain had kicked up, preventing us from getting those flowers planted, we watched a movie with the kids and called it a night.
Saturday turned out to be another full day of rain. We opted to take the kids to Michael's for some craft supplies to have something to paint and then we went looking for something to do together with Aunt Sue to get us out of the house for a bit. We ended up going bowling.

 It was a great time, and Faith won! Ok, Mike technically won, but Faith was second place and since she's 3 that makes her the de-facto winner. She proudly wore the title. Then we enjoyed a lunch together at Winger's.  Then it was back home where we enjoyed more down time and the kids painted one of their projects and took some naps/ quiet breaks while the rain continued outside. Later that night, my niece DaNell showed up with her boyfriend and we spent some time playing a game and laughing the rest of our night away with them.
Sunday finally brought some sunshine back. Mike got up and made me a nice breakfast of French Toast and bacon and once the grass dried out a tiny bit, we took advantage of it and got those flowers planted in the yard. It went quickly thanks to the help from Great Aunt Sue and then we were back inside for more painting and another movie while we took it easy for the rest of the day.  Here are some pics from all the flower fun, both inside and outside from the weekend. As well as the flower from Faith and the babysitter that they made for me and cards from the boys they made at school to make me feel special.

It was a huge slow-down for us from the last little while which turned out to be really nice and just what we needed. Flowers, fun and family. A triple F kind of weekend.

Thanks for the nice laid back visit Great Aunt Sue and for lunch and the sunflowers, it was great having you here for a few days. Miss you already!