10 things to Smile about (May)

10 Things to smile about from May

1. Visit from Family.

2. Having Ben home for our 1/2 anniversary! Most of the time he is away doing this......

3. My little gal beginning her dance career

4. Mother's Day.....love to be reminded that my little loves LOVE to be my kiddos

5. Running a 5k for the Wounded Warriors with several lovely ladies and friends

6. Our first trips of the year to the beach

7. The sounds of freedom air show....love seeing how excited my big kid gets

8. Another successful craft fair for my business

http://www.skidzwifecreations.weebly.com/

9. Moments like these......

10. And these......

Mother's Day Continued

Ben REALLY surprised me this year and bought me a compound bow for mother's day. I loved to shoot when I was younger but unfortunately my old bow had broke while I was in college. Ben got me a very basic bow to get back into it. We have already had several sessions shooting it and let several of our friends kids shoot as well. (It's a youth size bow....most of you that know me personally will understand why I need a youth size bow!)


Target shooting



Ready, Aim, Fire!

I did mention that I was ill this weekend right?

Poor Ben is most definitely NOT youth size!

We also had to have a Red Ryder BB gun session!

Chris in on the action!

A Mother's Day walk on the Beach

Searching for sharks teeth

She loves her new bathing suit!

See what I found?

Love my little man's facial expression!

Loving some time with Grandma

Mother & Son on Mother's Day

With my mom-in-law :)

I was a little under the weather that weekend so pardon my grubiness.

Monday Mugs (All about Mom) on a Tuesday!

Ok,ok I know that this is a day late. Kendall was having some major "I miss my daddy blues" yesterday so I took my blog time to pamper her a little bit.
Yesterday Heather at www.oswaldcuties.blogspot.com/ did All about Mom for Monday Mugs. I went with an easy post since I wanted to put up pictures from my mother's day!

Here we are at church on Sunday. I went in to serve in the nursery & boy am I glad that I did! They were so busy as usual!

Here we are after service on Saturday night

Kendall made this on Sunday at church. It has a sweet poem on the back.

The kids have picked up on my crazy picture fetish and are enabling me!

Some sweet cards

I also had some fun shirts from my parents AHEM I mean my kiddos. Some money from

my super in laws for a speical treat AND a Victoria Secret gift card from my children. (I am pretty certain their father might have influenced where they went and got their gift card from! Just kidding babe! Love you!)

Hope you all had a wonderful mother's day! I know that I sure did! The only thing that would have made it better would have been Ben coming home.

Day 187 of 365 (Happy Mother's day!)

And remember that behind every successful woman......is a basket of dirty laundry.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Unknown

In my daughter's eyes I am a hero
I am strong and wise and I know no fear
But the truth is plain to see
She was sent to rescue me
I see who I wanna be
In my daughter's eyes

Matina McBride

No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Anonymous quotes

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Abraham Lincoln

All mothers are working mothers.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Author Unknown

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Author Unknown

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Rajneesh

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: W. Somerset Maugham

Making a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Elizabeth Stone