Monday, May 9, 2011

Mother's Day

For Mother's Day this year, we were all together: 7 adults and 3 children (well, when looking at ages).  On Saturday, Mom and I had some mother/daughter time that we had been missing!  We went and did a little walking around what's left of the mall in Sebring and then had lunch at Ruby Tuesdays (salad bar and soup, yum!).  Then Saturday evening, we invited Tiffany and the kids over to join me, Mom, Dad, Danielle, and Ethan (noticed yet who is missing? That's right, the older boys - they went fishing or rather boating since they never seem to catch much) for dinner.  Dad cooked a beef tenderloin and I made the veggie sides to go with.  Delicious!!

Then on Sunday we all went to church together (we take up an entire pew at FUMC Wauchula), then went to lunch at Fred's in Lakeland.  Tiffany had heard of this amazing park in Lakeland and she wanted to take the kids.  So we all decided to join them.  Figured it would be a good energy release for Ethan before the 2+ hour drive back to G'ville.  We had a blast and so did the kids ;)  Here are a few pictures.  I wish that we had been able to get a good one of the entire family, but until the little ones are a little more picture-friendly, that will have to wait.


Jay loves to slide!

Ready, set, GO!!



The little ones like to slide too!

We had a hard time getting Jay off the slides, but eventually he joined us over near the swings (which is where the little ones prefered to be, except that it was in the full sun!)


Cutie patootie!

Ethan and his daddy
swinging

The kids loved to play with the ball
and Uncle Josh!

Oh, I forgot to mention that Ethan is walking!!!  He sometimes falls (don't we all) and on unsteady ground we help him but he will take several steps without any problem!

Walking man!

Finally a picture of just the 3 young ones and then one of them with their Oba!  Can't believe I got them all to sit still long enough to take the picture with me, I'll forgive them not all looking at the camera!


Me and my kids!

The three most adorable
children EVER!