Mother's Day 2017!

I have had a wonderful Mother's Day today.  They keep getting better and better each year!  The week started off with a Mommy and Me Tea with Mason at his school  They sang special songs to mothers and then we enjoyed a party in his classroom.

 Love my boy!

Kate was busy making cards this week.  I love her creativity! 

"To: Gigi From: Kate  I am sweet and juicy like you".  

Not sure where that came from but it made me laugh.

 "I love you with all my heart.  You are the best!"

Mimi's card:

 Kate also worked very hard on her Mother's Day questionnaire at school:

Her name is Redcae.

She's pretty as a rose.

She is 34 years old.

She has blue eyes and blond hair.

She weighs 102 pounds and is 5'5" tall.

Her favorite food is pasta yaya.

In the good old days when she was little, she used to cut her Barbie doll's hair.

I think Mom is funny when she is scared.

My mom always says go to bed.

My mom is good at cooking cake but not so good at cooking pork chops.

My mom really loves me.

My mom and I like to shop.

I love it when my mom tickles me.

My mom looks so pretty when she wears dresses.

My mom is beautiful because she ____________(blank).

I wouldn't trade my mom for $1,000.

I love my mom because she loves me.

These questionnaires are one of my favorite gifts!  I was laughing with tears in my eyes when I read this.  Especially the "go to bed" response and the blank response for "my mom is beautiful because..."

Today, Mother's Day, we went to my parent's house for lunch after church.  We had planned for Uncle Jordan to host but mom insisted she wanted us to get together at their house.  We enjoyed chicken salad and croissants, pasta salad, fruit, chips and cake!  Everything was SO good. 

  After lunch, the munchkins played hard in the blowup pool while the adults sat around and "relaxed" (as Mason says). 

Enjoying an ice cream treat.

And what Mother's Day is complete without a few pictures?!

I'm not sure if I Katie and I have many pictures together so I made sure the two of us took one today!  I love being her sister-in-law. 

 The moms!

I hope I can be half the mom to my two that she is to me!

So blessed to be their mom.

This evening, we met Mimi and Papa at Texas Roadhouse for dinner.

We enjoyed our time together!

To continue my annual tradition, I signed up once again for a Mommy and Me mini session.  This year, Amber Brogdon took them for me.  She always does a beautiful job!  It was frantic morning trying to get the kids and I ready since Justin was out of town fishing, but I managed.  It was so windy that morning so we tried to take pictures in between wind gusts. 

One of my favorites:

 Love this beautiful girl!

 And my handsome boy.  He is a true momma's boy and I love it.

  How did I get so lucky?

At the end of our mini session, Uncle Jordan bravely met me with Camden and Cooper to attempt a couple group shots.  All the kids did great and we were pleased with how quickly Amber managed to snap these pictures. 

These next three were the ones we chose to frame for my mom: 

 

Love my family!

Hope all the moms in my life had a wonderful Mother's Day!

Easter 2017

We have had lots of Easter fun this year!

Our church egg hunt this year was the Saturday before Easter out at Centerville Conservation Clubhouse.  I love going out there for events - it is so pretty with lots of room to run!

 Cutest little egg hunters.

  I spy eggs...

 Kate and her best friends Izzy and Audrey.

 Checking out their loot.

 Cooper found an egg!

Cousins!

The next Sunday, we went over to my parent's house for our annual family egg hunt.  After lunch, the kids dyed Easter eggs (with a little help).

 The dads supervised.

 Mason's:

 Camden's:

 Kate's:

 While the eggs dried it was time for the cut throat egg hunt.  Uncle Jordan instituted the "no rules" rule and I think he later regretted it.  

 The hunt is on!

 The Evers family pulled out the biggest win in a long time - finding both golden eggs, the silver egg and most of the money eggs!  It was a victorious day.

 Champions. :)

Somehow I didn't get a picture of Gigi or Granddaddy or Cooper (who was napping).  A big thank you to my parents for hosting another fantastic family egg hunt!

The next Easter event was Mason's school program!  Instead of dividing the programs over two days, they did all the classes together this year.

Group shot! Mason was in the very back, center.

My little man.

We were so glad Gigi and Daddy were able to come too!

Mason's class had their class party after the program and then headed out to hunt eggs!

Mason's teacher did the egg hunt a little different this year and let the kids go 5 at time to collect their eggs.  Mason reached his egg limit within a minute or two and was happy to show me what he had found.  

Great job!

Yesterday (the Saturday before Easter), we met our friends at the park for our annual egg hunt.  Kate had a softball game at noon (Mason's team was off that day) so we were able to hunt eggs before we had to leave for the game. 

 

 They found a ton of eggs!

 All the kiddos.

Today (Easter!) the kids were excited to see what the Easter Bunny brought!

Kate had written a list of her Easter requests earlier: shopkins, chubby puppy and baby, Barbie clothes, num noms, chocolate bunny and jelly beans.

After church, we enjoyed another wonderful lunch at the University Club with the Olks.  This year the new renovations were complete so all the kids activities were under the covered area outside, over looking the football field.  

 Balloons and face painting!

 Once again, only one of our kids was willing to see the Easter Bunny.

 Before we left church, we took a family picture in our Easter outfits...

Happy Easter from the Evers family!