Happy Mother's Day to me

I really had a good day this year.  My kids all came home with cute little gifts on Friday.  McKenzie brought the carnation and some coupons to do nice things for me.  Morgan made me the big yellow card, Micah made a paper flower coupon bouquet and planted marigolds in a pot he painted.  Oh and he also did the "My Mom" thing that Morgan did when she was in preschool.  Here's is Micah's version of. . .
"MY MOM" by Micah
My mom is "18" years old (guess it's better than 12 like Morgan thought)
My mom likes to make "Pancakes and Watermelon" (We had this the night before he made it and Micah really likes watermelon)
My mom always says "To stop doin stuff I'm not uppose to do" (Cuz you know I say this all of the time)
My mom is funny when she "Turns stuff upside down." (I still can't figure what I turn upside down)
I had a good laugh when I read through it.
My in laws gave me some yummy chocolate that I am really going to try hard not to devour all at once. Our ward gave the mom's little pots with seeds, (they even glued a little ribbon around the top to fancy it up a bit, good job elders quorum).  The primary made the black picture blocks that you see in the picture.  But the best present ever is what Randy bought me.  He gave me a little ticket that said good for one trip through Southwest with peanuts attached to.  I thought that was really cool and was thinking in my head, oh goody it's gonna be forever till I get to redeem this thing, and then he brought out a plane ticket that said I was leaving Memorial day weekend for Portland.  For the past few years my sis., Laurie, husband has been sending her down here to get away from her kids.  She keeps asking Randy when he's gonna do the same for me, apparently now.  I'm soo excited, I can't wait.  I'm gonna try and see a few of my old friends up there and just have fun not making decisions and wiping faces (not that it's really gonna happen cuz she's got 4 kids too, but they aren't my kids, lol).  So all in all, I had a really great Mother's day.  Randy's family came down for the weekend and his dad went on the Father/son's camp out and his mom hung out with me, we went to soccer games (which will be another post) and Randy bbqued some awesome ribs and salmon.  I'm soo grateful to my kids and things they teach me.  I really just need to enjoy them before it gets too late.  They are growing up way to fast.  Thanks to all of the amazing mom's out there, keep up the great work.