Mother's Day

"All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother."
~Abraham Lincoln

Christmas, 1982. I was 2 1/2, Audrey's age

Happy Mother's Day Mom. Thank you for the way you continue to teach and inspire me to be the best I can be.

June, 1974. Dave was two weeks old

Happy Mother's Day Marianne. Thank you for raising such a wonderful son who makes my role as a mother that much more enjoyable.

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Love, love, love Mother's Day. I think I must be a selfish person, but I love a day that is all about me and what I do. Being a Mother is the hardest, most rewarding thing I have ever done, and I love to celebrate it! Our celebration weekend started with a fun BBQ with friends on Friday night. Then Saturday night we did what every San Franciscan loves to do...drove 30 minutes to the nearest drive through! The Steakhouse burger from Burger King looked SO good, so we ventured down south to try it, and it was disgusting. Very disappointed. I only ate two bites, and I can usually eat about anything, so don't waste your money. Then we headed to the mall and I got to go shopping... all. by. myself. I can't remember the last time I actually tried things on in a dressing room. Heavenly. After two hours of shopping bliss we headed home. Today I slept in while Dave got the kids ready for church, and then after church I napped while he made a very yummy dinner...shish-ka-bobs (sp? how do you spell that word?), rice, pot stickers and egg rolls. Memor, Fafa and Aunt Alli came to help celebrate and we ended the night with yummy berry cobbler and angel food cake with berries. It was a great day and I felt very loved.
Happy Mother's Day to the many women in my life who have made me a better woman and mommy to my sweet kiddos.

Priceless...

Thank you Kelli for such great pictures (kellinicolephoto.blogspot.com). Kelli is graduating from BYU in photography. Her final BFA project was about the bond between a mom and her baby. I think she captured it perfectly.

My little family...

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."
~John Bowring

The big 1-0-0

This is my 100th post. Thought that was pretty cool. That's it.

Whoops...

So, my new-baby-mommy-mush brain has struck again. On Monday I was visiting the owner of our previous apartment complex and I set my phone on top of the car in order to help Audrey with something (the pants I was wearing didn't have very big pockets). I knew the second I did it I was asking for trouble. And what do you know? I forgot all about my phone on top of my car and ran all sorts of errands that day. So now my cell phone with every phone number I have is somewhere in some gutter in San Francisco, or some lucky stranger is having a grand 'ol time calling China using my minutes. I don't have long distance on my home phone, so I can't call anyone and not that many people have my home phone number. I am going to go get a new cell in a few days. If you know me well enough to have my email address, will you please email me and give me your contact info so I can call you? I need more brain cells...

Sausalito

Thanks Auntie Ritz for coming and spending the day with us in Sausalito. Sorry we don't have a picture together!

We didn't know it, but the Spring Fair was going on down by the water front. Audrey got her face painted and then sweet talked her dad into letting her paint a rock for $1.

Our little princess

Daddy Dave

"Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad." ~Author Unknown

Dane's first two weeks

I can't believe how quickly time is flying by. Our little baby is growing up way too quickly. He is finding his voice and starting to coo quite a bit. I love it. He is such a good baby. He is a great little sleeper, and he handles the movie "12 Dancing Princesses" very well.

Here is a recap of the first two weeks of his life.

Preggo. I did a photo shoot when I was pregnant with Audrey, and as much as I dreaded doing it with #2, I knew I would regret it later. I am the second child, and I wanted my second child to be able to see pictures of me when I was pregnant. I will do it with all my kids, and it will just get more and more disgusting. I agree with Shrek when he said, "Better out than in, I always say". Amen Shrek. As much as I loved being pregnant, it's much better to have Dane here where I can see his face and cuddle him. 36 weeks.

 

 

One day old.

 

 

 

Our San Francisco baby

 

Dave's dad started a great tradition; a piece of jewelry for every baby. Dave gave me this on our last night in the hospital...

 

Inside was this. I LOVE it. It's Dane's birthstone, aqua marine. I love that it happens to be blue!

 

 

Getting ready to come home

 

 

 

Welcome home baby brother

 

 

Three days old. Audrey wanted a turn to "feed him". Yikes. I love the look on Dane's face..."Help me!"

 

Six days old.

 

 

 

We have the baby blues, but not the kind you're thinking. This kind...

 

Audrey, our super sweet rock star.

 

March 22. We went to my parent's house for an Easter egg hunt. Audrey didn't want to step on the grass. It was too wet for her.

 

Audrey and her beautiful Anut Jess. My parents surprised me and flew Jess home from college to meet baby Dane. It was so fun to see her, and Audrey loved seeing her again.

 

 

 

Easter in the East Bay. Dane is two weeks.

 

 

 

 

Easter pictures I took while Dave and Audrey were at Church.

 

 

Off to bed...