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Sunday, June 5, 2011

Mother's Day Week 2011...and a little anniversary story

Mother's day celebrations started with a Mother's Day Picnic in Aston's classroom at Sharon Pres. It was a special little time spent with our special little 3 year olds...
photos by anne...me (always in my workout get-up) and my bud (happy as a clam that mom came to hang for lunch)

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anne and kate!20110506-DSC_0751.jpg
only eatin' the whip cream (the kids made the moms strawberry shortcakes)...kate kate poo20110506-DSC_0764.jpg
mia moo20110506-DSC_0766.jpg
suzy Q!20110506-DSC_0770.jpg
and asty too...20110506-DSC_0773.jpg
these flowers they made us are the bomb...mine's still kicking 1 month later...20110506-DSC_0778.jpg20110506-DSC_0785.jpg
This was given to us after the picnic...i love that i have black hair, blue eyes, I go to work and make breakfast...all false of course...20110506-DSC_0811.jpg
Stell's class didn't allow for Mommy's to come to class because they are too little and they can't handle it if some moms show and other's don't etc...but she did walk out carrying this super cute wreath they made!
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after Mommy's day at school we headed to the playground...this scares the bejesus out of me...stell playing on the big kid playground...i get flashbacks of split open cheeks
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BB went to California to visit Tai Puo for mother's day this year so we gave her an early mother's day gift (framed family photos by Dao...all moms and grandmothers got them...thanks again Dao!)20110506-DSC_0810.jpg
Our 6th anniversary was the day before Mother's Day and Jeff gave me a cool ring from Neiman Marcus and wrote me his annual "year in review" letter ...he aced our Anniversary! but i got nothing for Mother's day...boooo...the kids and the rest of his family made up for it i suppose!
(feel like I need to slide this story in here for journaling sake. Many months before our anniversary Jeff had mysteriously misplaced his wedding ring. I felt sick about it every time I looked at his left hand. Well, the week that Megan and Newman came for Easter, I found it while cleaning up the bonus room! There it lay on the floor of the kids play room right next to the train table. I guess he was playing with the kids and it slipped off! He claims this happens often due to his new slender-self...please... So anyway I slipped the ring in my pocket and never said a word. I had already purchased a waterproof point-n-shoot as his anniversary gift for use in and around our pool, so I took a photo of the ring at an undisclosed location with the new camera and gave him the camera. His challenge was to find the ring. He told me later that he thought I had bought him a new ring! but when he found the ring (in the garage next to his car washing gear) he realized it was the original...I've never seen him so stunned/excited...apparently he didn't loose it on purpose as previously suspected:))
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random cute pictures on the way to our annual mother's day brunch at Upstream 20110508-DSC_0820.jpg 20110508-DSC_0822.jpg 20110508-DSC_0833.jpg 20110508-DSC_0836.jpg 20110508-DSC_0838.jpg 20110508-DSC_0840.jpg  20110508-DSC_0844.jpg
upstream fun...with Babs...20110508-DSC_0846.jpg 20110508-DSC_0847.jpg
with Tai Grandma...20110508-DSC_0853.jpg
with Wook and Lance...20110508-DSC_0866.jpg 20110508-DSC_0878.jpg 20110508-DSC_0885.jpg 20110508-DSC_0887.jpg  20110508-DSC_0902.jpg  20110508-DSC_0907.jpg
Later that day Tai Grandma and Tai Yeh Yeh delivered early birthday gifts for the kids! Stell got a new pink plasma car...hallelujah! (they fight over the yellow one)20110509-DSC_0918.jpg 20110509-DSC_0922.jpg 20110509-DSC_0923.jpg  20110509-DSC_0929.jpg
Aston is a balance bike junky...time for petals now20110509-DSC_0931.jpg 20110509-DSC_0933.jpg
Thanks Tai G and Tai Y!!! I LOVE IT! 20110509-DSC_0942.jpg 20110509-DSC_0943.jpg 20110509-DSC_0945.jpg 20110509-DSC_0960.jpg 20110509-DSC_0962.jpg
our sunroom is now a greenhouse filled with mother's day plants!
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can't wait to cash in on this one!20110513-DSC_1023.jpg
This is from Heidi Kipper...my goddaughter...so sweet20110513-DSC_1026.jpg
Thanks everybody for an awesome Mother's day weekend!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Kate,

What a wonderful account of Mother's Day and your 6th anniversary in May 2011.

The pictures of Gramma and YehYeh are marvelous...also some wonderful pictures of Wookie and Lance....what a nice gift from Wookie...dinner and a sitter!!!

The pictures from the Mother's Day event at school were great...love the one where Aston is hugging you taken by Ann...love his account of what you look like and that you go to work everyday and that you are very good at making cookies!

The Jeff wedding ring story isthe best....with love from South Hero,
love, Gram and Chuck

kate's corner said...

aww some really great ones of stell...holding the wreath, showing the crayon, turning around on the scoot bike! yay asty on balance bike ps, glad you included the great great ring story. man, our flower bit the dust like day 2 :(
love the b&w of stell, l & w. framer for their house :)
and so glad you capped s & k practicing writing! 33! kate got that too.

whew what a big old mo's day weekend yall celebrated! love it all!

dao said...

what an awesome mother's day. love your b&ws. funny ring story and what a creative way to tell mj. thang lost his ring once and he was sick about it. he called me while on the golf course and told me he lost it on the course and had been looking for hours. little did he know i found it at home and didn't even tell him. kind of feel evil about it now because he was on the course looking forever :-)

Emilia said...

love all the pics and that you got treated nicely on mom's day. how did i not know we have a ring story in common? we must discuss... still have m's and now need to figure out way to get it back to him - anniversary coming up. these darn men and their ring-taking-off-ness!!!!

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