Mother's Day Weekend

I have finally found time to write about my Mother’s Day weekend!!

It started out Friday night. Dan and I went and had an AMAZING dinner with Breck & Carrie Ivy. As Breck put it, “we hadn’t seen each other for ¼ of a year”. Unacceptable!! The dinner was great, drinks… well they were a little too good and the company was unbeatable! Needless to say a lot had happened since then, so the four of us (after they laid Astrid & June down for the night) sat around the fire pit catching up.
As I have mentioned before, the winter days and miles south have really gotten in the way of us keeping in touch with a lot of our friends. We look forward to getting the chance to catch up with everyone!!

Saturday was a productive day with a relaxing afternoon. Alyssa’s dad had taken her to a wedding so I spent the day doing some spring cleaning until Dan got home. As we waited for Alyssa to come home, we relaxed and watched some Smallville followed by dinner at the Ram.

Sunday morning we all got up and made chicken fried steak and eggs for breakfast. Dan got me a gift certificate to Gene Juarez for a mani and pedi and whatever else I chose!! Alyssa got me a huge hanging fuchsia basket. During the spring and summer months, Downtown Puyallup has a really nice Farmer’s Market. So after we all got cleaned up, we decided to check it out. Unfortunately it was a little early in the year still so there wasn’t a whole lot to see. Downtown Puyallup also has a lot of really neat shops; most of them were closed except for one. It was full of amazing antiques. Alyssa and I found these silly chicken hats!!
Then we took Alyssa to Toys R Us to finally spend her Gift Certificate that Missy got her for her Birthday in December!! She was having such a hard time finding anything, so after about an hour of going down isle after isle she decided on CLUE – Simpson Version, How to be the Best at Everything (for Girls) book and some candy. Monday night Dan and I tried teaching her how to play Clue and be sneaky about it. She hasn’t quite grasped the “poker face” but she’s getting there.

We finished the night off with some BBQ’d turkey burgers and of course… More Smallville ;)

The only thing that would have made this weekend any more perfect was if we had been able to spend it with our mothers. Hope you all had a great Mother’s Day!