my mother's day gift

This year we had a pretty low-key Mother's Day.  We are in Alabama and got to spend the day with Dathan's mom & his sister Stephani (who is a mom as well).  My next post I will tell more of our day, but I wanted to share my gift I received :)  I was looking everywhere for a recent, nice photo of me with both boys to post on Mother's Day and I realized... I didn't have one.  I would have one with just Sean or one with just Nolan, but not a good one of both of them with me.  So that is what I asked for... a nice picture of me & my boys :)  That, paired with the promise of a popsicle, resulted in a pretty decent mini-shoot (Dathan took the photos with my camera and did a great job).  This is my favorite & the winner of the day:

They are both wearing their PJ shirts that they wore to bed the night before... and wore under their nice shirts to church.  That's real life, folks ;)

Here are some of the other ones that are cute or funny.  I wasn't going to post a lot of these because I am really self-conscious (as most other women are) but they are too precious to leave behind.  The lighting was gorgeous and we just walked out to Dathan's parents' back pasture to take these- beautiful!

I didn't get the memo to put my hand on my hip for this one...

Nolan is serious the majority of the time.

had to take a couple to the side to get baby brother in the pic ;)

so sad :(

angry... or strong... I can't remember and they look similar! ha!

The boys gave me a beautiful card & Dathan even wrote a poem on it for me.  I know this post is long already, but I had to share the poem!

There are some mothers who come

And some mothers who go

Some mothers can cook

And others can sew

Some are very crafty

And make things with their hands

While others work in offices

In a job with high demands

There are many sorts of mommies

But you stand out from amongst them all

There should be awards for you

That we'd hang up on the wall

You're beautiful and smart

And creative to boot

And on top of all that

You're also very cute

Your children, they adore you,

And so do I as well

There's no one out there quite like you

So far as I can tell

We're very blessed to have you

And I hope you understand

That we'd be lost without you

Yes our lostness would be grand

So in conclusion of this poem

We really want to say

We really really hope that you

Have a beautiful Mother's Day!

Haha isn't that adorable?  He should sell it to a card company!