Birthday to Mother's Day

Thank you all for the birthday wishes. I have had FOUR fabulous days of celebration.

Thursday morning Monkey Wrench made me a hot breakfast. I went to a court pretrial with a foster son, Koda Bear, and was able to give the judge a good report on him. I then came home and took a nap for an hour. What a sweet treat.Puppy is up by my head and kitty is down by my legs. I did not sleep alone. :)

I got a call to tell me that a little 7 year old boy, that we have been trying help in his current placement for 3 years, is going to be coming to live with us. We know we can help him and we are so honored that the Lord has made it possible for him to come to our home where he can be safe and begin to heal from the horrors that he started life with. It was a great gift.

Got up and Monkey Wrench BBQ'd hamburgers and Sassy and Koda Bear made a yummy salad. We had fun eating and hanging out. Hubs had to work his part time job that night, but the kiddos made certain that I had a great night.

Friday morning, my mom and I went to Salt Lake for the day. We saw the Joseph Smith movie in the Legacy Theatre and then had lunch at the Navoo Cafe. We shared a sandwich and small salad. So perfect.

We wondered around temple square to enjoy the beautiful the tulips that were everywhere. So many beautiful colors. It was breath taking.



Friday evening hubs and I went for a quiet, just the two of us dinner at OutBack Steakhouse. I tried the sweet potato side and fell.in.love. I'm not sure that regular baked potatoes are going to be tasty enough for me anymore. The sweet potato had so much flavor.

So sweet to have some time alone with only the two of us.

Saturday was spent deep cleaning, celebrating Lazy Lion's 16th birthday, and going to eat at Outback Steakhouse with my mom, brothers, sis-in law, and baby sister. Oh, yeah I can eat there two nights in a row and not be sick of the food.

Here is what I learned the 2nd night.
**If you find an Orbit gum wrapper in your salad it's a lot more funny than finding the actual chewed gum. The manager was appropriately upset and brought me a new salad, sans the gum wrapper. We laughed last night and again today about it.

**Costa Vida alledgedly marinates all their meats in a highly addictive caffiene substance. Well that explains my new addiction. Any one want to meet me there tomorrow?

Woke up this morning to my favorite breakfast, over easy eggs over hash browns. Yummy! Hubs knows just how I like them.

Mother's Day Gifts from the kiddos.
(The candles are deco)

Went to a beautiful church service where the conducting member stated that "we love our mother's today" following the children singing I Often Go Walking. I leaned over to Monkey Wrench and said, "as opposed to all other days?" We laughed!

We then went to see grammy and pap in Salt Lake. Grammy is a dear friend of mine that I met through her son. Long, sad story. The short version is that he was their only child and died his senior year, my 9th grade year. We have maintained contact and she has always been my children's grammy.

We then stopped by my mom's for some fun and to give her this. I just know she will love it.

Jumping Monkey's family invited us over for dinner and fun. We ate hamburgers, braats, salads, chips, veggies, and played corn hole. Yeah, that sounds bad, but it was so fun.

Corn hole teams

We had a riot. So much fun and conversation. Truly a good time.
Their yard backs up to the river and is so beautiful and calming.


I have been overwhelmed by gratitude for the blessings of the Lord in my life. How I got the honor to be the mom to help these great children is only by the grace and will of my Heavenly Father.

I had a great Mother's Day and Birthday. I couldn't ask for anything more.

How was your weekend?