❤ ❤ ❤ⓗⓐⓟⓟⓨ~ⓜⓞⓣⓗⓔⓡⓢ~ⓓⓐⓨ❤ ❤ ❤ PART 2

We had a lovely family day.

After receiving the BEST gift EVER (see my video in the post below!!!!), D & I went out to bagels for breakfast. We came home and relaxed a while.

Then we met the rest of the family (Grampie, Grammie, Elle, Drew, and even Jade's friend, Kyle - but not Sar because she had to work :( at the movie theater for IRON MAN 2.

Then we went to Islands for dinner. FUN - as always!

After that, to Cherry on Top for frozen yogurt (thankfully, they had caramel mocha with heath bar topping for Grammie - YAY!).

Grammie opening her Brighton nightlight.

Grammie in her favorite spot she created to eat her yogurt!

Grammie obsessed with Titanic :)

Then they all stopped by our house to see how the closet is coming along (I LOVE to show it off).

Then everyone quickly dispersed. Lando headed back to school, Jade took Sara out for a date, Elle headed home, G&G also went home (Grampie just got back from Thailand and is BEAT).

All in all an enjoyable and love and family filled day.

And now it's REAL people, because I blogged about it!... so you can relax, it actually happened!

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What a special gift I got this year!

In addition to a custom website from JADE, I also got personalized messages from each of the kids and D.

Then they put together this spectacular video.

(Yes, you BET I got teary!)

While I spent the day lounging at the pool with my friends (ahhhhh), they were secretly putting this little gem together.

Jade & Lando wrote the custom lyrics - FUNNY!!!!

Deevs & Lando sang - ahhhh!

Miss M made the video - awesome!

And, like I said, Jade stayed up late into the morning MAKING the site - so great!

MUTE the music at the side - and for a "full size" version (not cut off because of my blog lay-put), link here http://mom.maslyn.us/family/

It was so funny later to hear all the contortions they went to to make this in 24 short hours! Sara wanting to show me something on the computer but then realizing she couldn't because they were making this, so she comes out and says "I can't show you right now."

I say "OK, why?"

She says "Um... cuz I'm HUNGRY".

hahaha

Me, asking Lando where he is and him saying "Where AM I???"

"Yeah"

"The canyon"

"what canyon"

"Um.. modjeska canyon"

"you sound like you're in a house"

"I am in a house... in the canyon"

"oh, who are you with?"

"Diego"

"But whose HOUSE are you at?"

"Oh... um... taylor stanton"

"Oh. What are you going to do."

"A photo shoot."

"For the music you'll be playing?"

"No. Just for fun."

"Where?"

"At this pool out here."

"Canyon pool?"

"No. A different pool."

"OK... well have fun."

hahahahahaha

Miss M suddenly deciding not to stay later for painting & costumes at drama.

D and Deevs taking HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS to get Deev's ears pierced and me asking "why is this taking so long? how hard can this be?" (They were supposed to be joining us at the pool, but never came.)

I am SO glad I was nice and understanding and patient instead of crabby and demanding like I can sometimes be :/

What a sweet and loving gift.

*sigh*

I'm rich.

From the song Poor Folks Town "we're rich in love and that's one thing that we've got plenty of"

Happy Mother's Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Mother's Day!!!!

Mother's Day 2009 started with a shower and a note under the door from Miss M (ahhh... Mothers are grateful for daughters!!!).

Followed by gifts from Dear Hubby (thanks Babe) and a beautiful handmade card from Miss M (did I mention mothers are grateful for daughters???)

A new hot pink ipod nano?  (To replace to one stolen out of car on driveway grrrrrr!!!)  

And all the accessories!

Lunch with the Fam at Islands... celebrating Mom!  (Thanks Grampie!)
And one more SURPRISE gift from Tiffany & Co.

THANKS BABE!!!
High five-ing the surprise.
With the new "S" necklace.
The Moms.
D's Mother's Day gift to himself?

A tattoo "wedding ring".

I got an "S" necklace and he got an "S" tattoo.  (Just marking my territory...)

xoxo

Mother's Day 2009

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own." ~Aristotle


"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly." ~Ambrose Bierce

My Mother (Grammie) doing

 what she does best ("Top 5 bests"): 

Serving others and making them feel special.

"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after." ~Peter De Vries

"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back." ~William D. Tammeus

Grammie doing ANOTHER of her "Top 5 bests":

Making memories, perpetuating traditions,

 while also helping her kids (me) who are too overwhelmed to do it all.

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." ~Elizabeth Stone

"If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family." ~Lawrence Housman

"Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age."  ~William Feather

Grammie, Grammie's Mom (Gram), 

Grammie's daughter (me), and Grammie's  granddaughter (Miss M)

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." ~ Tenneva Jordan

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground." ~ Zora Neale Hurston

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." ~ Rajneesh

Grammie also being a TERRIFIC Grandmother.

Thanks Mom!!!

Happy Mother's Day!!!