Given To Garrulousness: Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

We had a nice Mother's Day weekend. On Saturday we did some housework, ran a couple of errands and generally had a relaxing day. In the evening we went to dinner at Jimmy Mac's with mom and dad for Mother's Day. We wanted to go to PF Changs but we didn't figure out what time everyone would be available until late and we couldn't get a reservation. But Jimmy Mac's was good and the kids were thankful for the reprieve from eating Chinese, which they have decided they don't like. Dad had some crawfish chowder that he said was terrific. The kids mostly enjoyed throwing peanut shells on the floor. It was fun spending time together.

Sunday was Mother's Day. At breakfast Carol opened the beautiful outfit the kids got her from J-Jill. It ended up looking really nice on her!

She also got a really neat magnetic note-holder with a flower pen that Dakota made for her at school... it was a really special gift!

Our meeting was very small- Larry & Carol Hagbom were gone, June & Dudley Bickford were absent and Connie Lombardo and her kids were missing and Evelyn Brock was out sick. So meeting was fairly short. After meeting we went to mom & dad's for lunch; mom made delicious BBQ Beef Sandwiches and it was nice enough that we ate outside... first time this year! After lunch mom and I went flower shopping at Carpinito Brothers in Kent and the Fuschia Lady's. Mom already had a lot of her annuals and bedding plants but I hadn't bought any yet this year so I loaded up. Got everything I needed for my hanging pots and my other pots out front. All red-white-and-blue this year. Mom and I always have a good time flower shopping together. We came back to the house to find that dad, Carol and the kids had gone shopping for scrapbook supplies and were working on dad's "Hunting & Fishing" scrapbook. I NEVER thought I'd have seen the day when dad got into scrapbooking but this is his third book already!

But our busy day wasn't over yet! We all headed over to Aaron & Dani's for pizza dinner and to celebrate Aaron's Birthday.

Happy Birthday, Aaron!

Mom & Dad got him some shirts and an iPod Shuffle that he can use when he goes running. We were boring and got him giftcards... to Salty's (his fav) and to Cabela's. I really, really wanted to get him a huge loud air-horn for his truck but it didn't end up working out. So... boring old giftcards.