This is what I woke up to this morning........Mmmm, it was good. To back up a little though, I knew that the girls had secret plans of making me breakfast in bed this morning, so I lay in bed as long as I possibly could, until finally I thought I'd better check the clock, 8:31! We have church at 9:30. I jumped out of bed and started getting dressed....halfway through was interrupted by breakfast though and ordered back to bed. So I followed orders. Breakfast was awesome. And I got to listen to the girls fight the ENTIRE time because Emma had wanted to make it all by herself...she started this tradition last year and had plans of continuing it BY HERSELF until she left home at 18. I tried to explain to her how her siblings might want to help, and that I can only eat ONE breakfast mother's day morning, but got nowhere.....she'd have been much better off as an only child, but then again, who'd she boss around? Then they brought out the cards and homemade gifts.....Sarah made me a really nice refrigerator magnet which spelled MOTHER vertically, and she had thought of a word that described me for each letter. O stood for "organized". I said, "Ah, Sarah, you think I'm organized?" (I REALLY strive to be, but it seems near impossible most days) She said, "well, not really.....I mean, sort of, I guess". Dang it, such a compliment for a sec.

Who knew a garden was SO much work??? Hello!!! Yesterday after T-ball and swim team, we got out a few square mouthed shovels and began removing grass....let me say that was a very SLOW proccess!!! It sped up a little though when we finally got to the more dead area that was under the tramp. About 4 hours later we were finally to the point of tilling, so Adam rented one from HD....that part moved much faster, yeah! Then our neighbor that runs the horse farm behind us offered us this fence to keep the critters out, so Adam got it set up while I hoed some furrows. Let me just say, I am SO SORE today!!!

This afternoon the kids and I dropped a few seeds in while Adam grilled me a mother's day dinner. I am so excited! We'll see what really grows though....we're total rookies.

We had PERFECT mother's day weather today after church!! Adam on the roof is a normal occurance these day....he's getting ready to re-shingle it soon, and likes to go up there and look at it.

I was in charge of sharing time today at church, and so I had the kids make flower pens in a pot for their mothers. (thanks Mel!) I had asked the EQ (the younger half of the men at church) to come in and help out so that the primary teachers could go to RS for once.....it worked out so great! They totally had it under control, so even I left and went to RS and just came back right at the end. Love seeing men w/floral tape, flowers, and glue guns....too funny, they actually seemed to be enjoying themselves too. My pot was like a huge funeral spray.....my girls got a little competative w/a neighbor girl, who's mom's pot would have the most flowers....my girls said they won by one. I've got 17, all in one pot. As you can see, they ran out of flowers, and had to start making pens out of left over leaves. I should never have to search for another pen again!!!

This jeep Santa got the boys for $100 off craigslist was the best $100 he ever spent!! They ride it round and round the yard....love it!!! Even Luke can drive it now....his passengers get a little whiplash, but he loves it.

The horsefarm behind our house just got a new little pony named Tinker. Now that the weather's nicer, the girls have started helping out over there again (brushing horses, painting their nails w/some sort of conditioner that looks like nail polish, braiding manes, etc) Today for payment, the owner let them ride the pony for the first time....Emma and Sarah were in HEAVEN. For 9 months they've been drooling over those horses from our back yard, but today was the day.....