Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Mother's Day

Mother's Day by Cheng Family
Mother's Day, a photo by Cheng Family on Flickr.

The girls and I on the porch on Mother's Day. Look at how tall the girls are now! They both look so big to me in this picture.

Summary Of Life In Dates

February 29th - March 7th: Disney World and Sea World vacation.  This time it was fun and memorable but stressful and super exhausting at times.  Vacation pictures here.

April 1st - 8th: Read The Hunger Games triology.  Dave and I were reading the books around the same time.  At least we finished reading the third book on the same night.  We then watched The Hunger Games movie on our date night the following night.  We really enjoyed all three books and the movie.  I might have liked them a little more since I watched interviews and the making of the movie on YouTube, listen to the movie soundtrack, and I reread all three books a month after I read through them the first time.  I think I'm done now ... until the second movie Catching Fire comes out next year.


April 6th: Easter egg hunt with 27 homeschool kids.  A friend and I organized an egg hunt and a few egg relay races for the kids.  It was a big turn out and a lot of fun!  Lilly won first place for the girls relay race.

April 19th - 21st:  Ladies leader retreat in New Jersey.  17 ladies stayed in a beach house, with 2 bathrooms, and studied the book of Philippians for 3 days.  God really blessed the time of studying the Bible.  Philippians is packed with so many great truths of who Christ is.

May 13th: Mother's Day.  Dave and the girls gave me a new spiral bound journal, a bouquet of pink tulips and a Mother's Day balloon.  Dave also smoked ribs and chicken for a big Sunday night dinner.   Andy made a delicious gourmet mac and cheese.  It was a treat to have both of the dads cook for our two families.

May 15th: Lilly was eating corn on the cob at dinner when she complained that it was making her teeth hurt.  She said it was her bottom teeth.  Sure enough, we took a look at them and her two front bottom teeth look like they've gone loose and crooked!  Lilly's first loose tooth!  She was so excited.  She said, "I've been waiting for this!"  We're excited for her too.  So I guess we'll be waiting for her first tooth to fall out sometime soon.

June 3rd: Vacation!  We're looking forward to a vacation to the Outer Banks, NC and then a two-day stop at Busch Gardens on the way back home.

November 7th:  Baby #3's due date!  I'm 15 weeks along and happy to be in the second trimester of the pregnancy.  I felt pretty miserable the first trimester.  I was definitely hit hard with the nausea and fatigue. Mid-June we hope to find out if baby #3 is a boy or a girl!  We're all hoping for a boy.  Dave's been calling baby 'he' and Lilly's been telling me she wants a baby brother.  Of course, if we have another girl we'll be thrilled.  Girls are what we know and we have plenty of girly clothes and toys for her too.