Stay-at-Home {MOM}ents

May 22, 2013

May 21, 2013

This year, I was invited to attend a Mother's Day program at Gavin's school. Let me just tell you...it was so sweet. I cried. They sang to us, danced for us, presented us with flowers and gifts, and then served us cookies and juice. So stinking special. I loved every minute of it!

The picture he drew me said that I'm special because I rub his back at night. That really pulled at my heartstrings! Sometimes, I feel like he's just stalling at night when he asks me to rub his back longer, but I always try to remind myself that one day he won't be asking me to rub his back before bed. When I read that, I realized just how much he likes it, and I think of it every night now when I go into his room.

Mother's Day around here was nice. The kids woke me up and Gavin had a gift bag for me. After opening my new phone case, he realized that the flowers he had picked the day before and stuck in the bag had died, and he started crying. I had to console him and tell him how sweet it was to even think of picking me flowers. He is such a sweetheart.

We went to Walmart and bought new flowers for our pots on the porch and came back to do some planting. Then we headed out for some shopping, dinner at Mama Fu's and Yum Yos for dessert after naps. I love any day I get to spend with my little family, but even more when Gavin's constantly telling me 'Happy Mother's Day' and that he loves me.

And because I love to do comparisons....here's the past 2 years!

2011 - Pregnant in Florida to celebrate Steve and Heather's wedding

2012 - With my little baldie as I celebrated my first Mother's Day as a mama to two!

May 7, 2013

Is he really 5???

I'm still in shock that this is happening. My baby boy is 5. FIVE?!?! Not sure how that happened....everyone says it happens so fast, and it's true. In one sense, I can't remember a time when he wasn't in our lives, and in another sense, I feel like it was just yesterday that we were carrying him around face down across our arm because it was the way that he wanted to be held as a newborn baby.

We celebrated Gavin's 5th birthday with a low key party. When I asked him about about planning his party, he just wanted to invite a couple friends over to play. The more he thought about it, the two friends turned to four (and three were able to attend) but he still just wanted them to come over to play, have cake and open presents. Nothing big!

The theme? Angry Birds Star Wars, of course. But he had an Angry Birds party last year, right? Yep...but this was totally different according to him. This was Angry Birds Star Wars!

That Sunday afternoon, we friends came over and he had his Angry Birds Star Wars games set up in the toy room for them to play, we made up a 'pin the nose on Darth Vader' game, had an amazing cake made by my friend, Mara, and opened presents. Pretty laid back party, if I do say so myself!

We were so impressed with his cake! Mara did such a great job.

He had school on his actual birthday, so instead of goodie bags, we took in Krispy Kreme donuts for the class. They used to get them on their birthday, and after a management change, they stopped giving the preschool the discount, so we thought it would be a nice treat.

I surprised him after school with a stop at Chuck E. Cheese to play. He LOVES that place! And it's cheap fun...$10 worth of tokens and an hour of play time. :)

Lastly, to celebrate his birthday, we started a tradition of ice cream for dinner last year. So despite a few days filled with sugar, we headed to Yum Yos for some frozen yogurt. He thinks that's so cool. And I love that it's a special memory he'll always have.

Happy birthday, Bug. We love you to the moon and back!

May 4, 2013

7th Anniversary

Oh, about two weeks ago now, Jarrod and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary! {Why am I still slacking on this blog???} We didn't do much, but Gavin and I planned him a nice surprise 'fancy' dinner at home.

I got the kids all dressed up...but getting proof of that turned out to be quite difficult!