Mother's Day and More

A belated Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms that read this! We had a great, relaxing day yesterday. Before blogging about that, I'll catch up on what we've been doing the past few weeks, which apparently is not much! After all of the excitement of Easter and Cade's birthday last month, we've been taking it easy. Last week in lieu of cooking one night, we had the buffet at DoubleDave's. Delicious! Cade and Chance played the "shooting game" that Cade always begs to play while we are there. I'm not sure who had more fun!

This past weekend, we celebrated Chance's sister Lindsay graduating from A&M! We are so proud of the beautiful and successful young woman she has become! Lindsay is headed off for Teach for America this summer. Friday night I pretended to be young again and went to her ring dunking. It was the most well-orchestrated ring dunking I have ever attended and it was really fun to hang with the college crowd for a bit :) I did see several of my former students, which made it a little strange. Lindsay dunked her ring like a champ... but in Crystal Light!

The next day we went to Hayden's 10th birthday party. It is hard to believe our "little" neighbor boy is 10 years old! Unfortunately, I don't have any pics of Hayden or his brother Cole, who Cade had a great time playing with in the pool. But check out my cute guys in their first swim of the summer!

Cade's class focused on moms all week in preparation for Mother's Day. Cade brought me a bracelet he made and lots of pictures. One day, they answered some questions about their moms. Here is the result:

A couple of notes about his answers:

1. The "chicken" that he likes me to cook is actually Rotisserie chicken that I buy at HEB, so no actual cooking is involved. Hmmm.
2. I like enchiladas, but was surprised that he said that was my favorite food. So when I asked him about the answer, he said "You really like ice cream the best, but I didn't say that". Thanks, I guess?
3. I am really good at eating??? Is there nothing else??? When asked about this answer, Cade just laughed.

Mother's Day was really great yesterday. Chance and Cade cooked pancakes for breakfast and then we went to church. While there, a nice man at our table gave us his baseball tickets! So we hurried home to change clothes and then headed to the wonderful new Olson Field. Cade loved the playground again and we had a great time. And this is the only picture we took on Mother's Day!

Then we stopped at Best Buy to buy something I told myself we would never get... a Wii! I kind of make fun of people at work for playing video games, but now I will be eating my words. We honestly didn't want Cade to fall behind his peers in learning about things like this, so that is the main reason we got it. Now that we have it, I admit that my Super Mario Brother's skills have severely waned, and I am somewhat addicted to improving them. Just wait until I buy a dancing game! Chance and Cade enjoy the We Fish game.

I am so thankful for our little family and the opportunity to be a Mama!