Mother's Day!

It's so weird to think that three years ago I didn't even THINK of the possibility that I could be a mom so soon. In fact, people would tell me "Happy Mother's Day!" when I wasn't even a mom, and I really didn't care for it. I thought for sure it'd be at least 5 years until I was anywhere close to having a baby. But God works in some mysterious ways, and here I am, having my second Mother's Day.
This is by far the best day of the year I think. I actually believe it's better than my birthday, in my honest opinion. My birthday has lost it's magic, but not Mother's Day: it's designed to relieve stress and bring peace of mind, for at least 24 hrs. Whoever came up with it deserves the Nobel Prize.
I had an awesome Mother's Day! Well, it didn't start out that way, but it ended on a good note at least! I had to work all night (saturday-sunday) and not only was I watching over W4, I had to watch over Special Care Nursery as well. It turned out to be a good night, although it was busy. I should get paid double for doing the job 2 clerks can do! Then I had to drop off a document at the NICU at IMC, so I stopped there on my way home from work.
Then I slept from 8:30am until 3pm. Let me tell ya something: it's SO nice to be able to sleep for that long. It's almost as if I don't sleep that long, I pretty much go through the day in a fog. Got breakfast in bed (oatmeal!) and got ready.
After that, my mom came over so we could call my brother in Japan! It was really nice to be able to talk to him. He's got such a strong testimony, he's totally changed since he's gone on his mission- and it's a change for the better!
As soon as we were done, we headed to Olive Garden for dinner. It was so yummy!


Here's a picture of me with my mom. I love my mom!

Then a picture of Elijah with his mom! So cute!

And a picture of Jacen and me :)

And I had to post this picture cuz I thought it was just absolutely hilarious! Jacen learned to ask "Wads dis?", "Was dat?" (What's this? What's that?) while he points to things, and one of them was that lime. So being the mean mom I am, decided it was time for him to suck on a lime and see how he liked it.... well, we realized he's just like me: he LOVED it!!! And he continued to suck on it for a while! When I was little I used to pull out some tweezers and a slice of a lime, and just pluck out the little fibers, and stick a whole bunch of them in my mouth and then pop all of them at the same time to get the juice. So fun! I just thought I'd share this little story LOL

Anyway, I hope all the moms out there had a fabulous Mother's Day!