I hope all the mother's out there had a very Happy Mother's Day! I spent the day with my mom and enjoyed our time together. The kids enjoyed their day as well - we visited with my Grandparents and hung out with my brothers - it was a relaxing day. With the exception of the drive home...I had to pull the car over twice because one of my children, I won't mention names, was misbehaving. This same child got a good talking too by Grandpa before leaving - someone needs to put some fear into him - he doesn't seem to be bother by me in the least. I had to stop once to move him and his other brother around so that he wasn't near his sister whom he felt like antagonizing all the way home. Once this was accomplished she went right to sleep. Then I had to stop one more time for a little attitude adjustment, but that was all it took and the rest of the ride home was peaceful.

Hunter had a t-ball game yesterday and he did so good. He was the last batter of the game and the bases were loaded and he almost got a home run - in t-ball land - but, they got him out between third and home - but he gave it his all.

We went to dinner on Friday night to celebrate David's Grandma's 84th birthday. It was a nice time with his parents, his uncle from CA came in for the celebration and his great-aunt joined us. We didn't think we would be able to join since the boys had baseball - but they were rained out so we were happy we were able to join in the festivities.

David and I are attending the wedding of a friend of mine on Friday night and it's going to be a "Red-Carpet" event. We are looking forward to it and I bought a dress yesterday for it - I'll have to post pictures of us on our night out. She is planning on having the "paparazzi" there to be snapping pics as the guests arrive and get out of their cars - it should be quite an event. I'm really looking forward to it.

Peyton is graduating from preschool on Tuesday and is looking forward to starting Kindergarten in the fall - he did very well at his screening this past week and is all set to go. I can't believe he will be in Kindergarten - boy how time flies.

I took a few pics of the kids yesterday - we went down to the West Bottoms so I could do some pictures of Zach. I'm going to try and make him a book of pictures for leaving 8th grade and entering high school, but in the process also took some of all of them. The picture posted below earlier is a collage of some pics I took of all five of them - with a group like this, it's hard to get one good one, but I thought putting them all together in a collage showed the fun they were having. They were not dressed as I would have liked for a group picture, but no one was planning on getting pictures until they saw all the fun Zach was having...oh well.

I cannot believe that I have been a mom now for 14 years! I am so very blessed to have five beautiful, wonderful children. I would not give this life up for anything! God truly has blessed us with an amazing family and I look forward to many years to come as they continue to grow and learn and change. Each one of them have their own qualities that make them so special and I can't imagine life any other way. So, on this Mother's Day - all I can say is Thank You God for giving me the most wonderful gift of all - the gift of being a mother!

~~~Dawn