Mother's Day 2013

I got to spend it with my own grandmother and mother and kids, a thing I grew up believing was the most normal and natural thing in the world to do, because that's what my family has always done. 

Now that I'm 35 and have lived (just) a little, I've come to learn how precious life really is.  So many people I know and love couldn't do that yesterday.  I don't take my mom for granted.  All I could do was buy her a potted flower and spend the day with her; attending church, eating lunch, cleaning the kitchen together, going out to The Party (stay tuned for pics).  Basically doing all the things I hope my sons will want to do with me in 32 years - hang out and share life together.

I love you, Mom.

Here are what I'm calling our Mother's Day 2013 photos, taken May 4 at C's party.  So we got the back of M's head, so what?  It's not like he would have actually looked at the camera if we'd tried.  Because believe me, we tried to get one at the wedding!  (See Below)

I love you, Mom!

Me and my 3 boys!!

Here's a sample of our "family" photo from Uncle D's wedding...now imagine 30 shots of this, each one not right because the kids are whipping the flowers around, opening their mouths, sticking out their tongues, or me or Hubs are talking to them or whatnot.  It would actually be pretty funny if we could turn them into a flip book!!

Christmas Card photos, here we come!

 P.S. Hubs says the uploading is taking forever due to the desktop working on wifi and my wanting to use the "good" Nikon photos.  Boo.