My First Mother's Day

I had to wait almost a year to celebrate my first mother's day, but it was well worth the wait. Zach, Zane, and I headed down to flooded south east Missouri to celebrate with Zach's family. We got in very late on Friday, since we couldn't leave until I got home from work. This actually worked out rather well, since Zane slept the whole way there. Zach and I didn't get to bed until about midnight and of course Zane was up bright and early on Saturday so we were slightly exhausted.

Zach's sister, Trina, had her wisdom teeth taken out Friday, but was willing to forge ahead with our mother's day celebrations, though slightly drugged. Saturday afternoon Amy, Trina, Adeline, and I headed to Sikeston, via a slight detour due to the flooding, to get lunch and pedicures. I love getting any type of spa treatment, pedicure, manicure, facial, massage, you name it. I am all about a little relaxation and fun girls time. I had a wonderful time, getting my toes painted a very loud pink complete with a flower. It was also tons of fun to watch Adeline getting her first spa treatment as well. She got to put her little feet in the bubbly water and everything. She choose glitter nail polish, which turns out you can't put flowers on, which was disappointing, but still adorable. I am not sure Amy loves pedicures as much as Trina and I do, but she was a great sport and we even convinced her to go slightly out of the box with her nail color, not as loud as mine but still lovely. I didn't take pictures of us while we were getting them done because I was enjoying the freedom of not having a diaper bag, but here are the results on our toes!

Saturday evening we had dinner with everyone, played outside with the kids, and made preparations for Clay's Golden Birthday cake. Sunday we all went to church, which was an unnecessarily long mass, and then headed home for birthday/mother's day fun. It was a gorgeous day so there was lots of playing outside, looking at snakes and frogs, eating snow cones from my new snow cone maker ( yes that was my mother's day gift, and I love it!), playing games, and enjoying each other company.

 We assembled the catepillar cake Sunday afternoon, with help from the birthday boy himself, and I think it turned out amazing. Mike brought in a board from his shop so we could use all the cupcakes, leading to a super long caterpillar. Amy happened to have green frosting which was perfect, we used soar gummy words for legs, M&Ms for eyes, twizzlers for antennas, and the best part, Clay loved it! It was the center piece for the entire dinner Sunday, so fun!

My favorite part of my mother's day was getting to take a nap/read a book in the recliner with my sleeping baby boy. It was a rather loud day, with all the kids coming in and out of the house, so I knew that he would wake up in his pack and play, so I just held my baby and soaked in the blessing of getting to be his mommy. It was wonderful. Of course I thoroughly enjoyed my time with my nephew's and niece, who are growing up to be such amazing little people. We had to take a photo with each of them before we left. We really were just going to take one with Clay, since it was his birthday, but then they all wanted their own picture with Aunt Audra and Uncle Zach. I just adore them. So needless to say, it was wonderful mother's day!

Hope all of you had a great time with your families as well. Happy Mother's Day to all the beautiful mother's who have welcomed me into motherhood over this past year with open arms. Thanks for all your kind words or support, encouragement, and prayers that you have sent my way during this difficult year. They have meant the world to me!