Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to me and to you and all mother's. We had a surprise visit from Mel who came up last night and hung out with us today, yay! She's a second mother to all her younger siblings. 

Katharine obviously VERY happy to see her! With lovely mother's day flowers they gifted me. The kids eating dinner last night.

The kids gifted me cards they made at school and church. Here's Daniel's from school. )I like the portrait!)

All About My Mom 
By Daniel Wride, Age 7
My mom's name is tiffanie (got the spelling correct!)
She is 53 years old (not yet)
Her favorite color is red. (correct)
She likes to eat vechebles and drink water. She is very good at soccer.
My mom always says "if you are doing the right thing you're following Christ" (I don't think I've ever said that exactly, but if that is what Daniel has heard, then I guess that's good!)
I like to go to Park City with my mom.
I wish I could buy my mom anything she could dream of.
My mom is the best because she is the nicest mom ever. 

And from the kids in Primary - in sharing time they did a "Mother's Day Quiz"

My name is Natalie and I am 10 years old. 

My mom's name is Tiffanie and she is 48 years old. 

My mom is idk feet and idk inches tall.

For fun, my mom likes to go on bike rides.

My mom grew up in America

My mom's favorite color is red & pink

My mom hates it when I do bad stuff

When I'm in trouble my mom calls me Natalie

My favorite activity to do with my mom is do stuff

I love my mom because she's beautiful on the inside & out.

Good job Natalie. You scored 11/13 on your quiz. 

Next is Owen. 

My name is Owen and I am 9 years old. 

My mom's name is Tiffine and she is 53 years old. 

My mom is 16 feet and 6 inches tall.

For fun, my mom likes to play

My mom grew up in Utah 

My mom's favorite color is red 

My mom hates it when I have Dieariue

When I'm in trouble my mom calls me tolet paper

My favorite activity to do with my mom is play

I love my mom because she is the Best

Good job Owen. A few corrections, you are still 8 years old, but yes you are almost 9. I'll let that and the rest slide, but I want it to be known that I have never called you toilet paper. I think he might have thought about a time when he is in trouble and calls for me is when he needs toilet paper. 6/13

My name is Daniel and I am 7/8 years old. 

My mom's name is Tiffanie and she is 38 years old. 

My mom is 5 feet and 3 inches tall.

For fun, my mom likes to play games

My mom grew up in Uta 

My mom's favorite color is red 

My mom hates it when I ware (swear?)

When I'm in trouble my mom calls me a brat

My favorite activity to do with my mom is lauf with her

I love my mom because she is so nice.

Daniel, I'm impressed that you did your age like that and that you got so close with my height! I'm going to give that to you. I don't know that I've ever called you a brat. Still, very good job, 11/13.

And Peter's ~

My name is PETER and I am 5 years old. 

My mom's name is Tiffany and she is    years old. 

For fun, my mom likes to play with me

My mom grew up in home 

My mom's favorite color is pink

My mom hates it when I fight

When I'm in trouble my mom calls me mean

My favorite activity to do with my mom is watch TV

I love my mom because she always feeds me

Excellent work. 10/10! Peter also made this for me in his Primary class - 

(Hmm, that's two comments about tv... I probably need to have the television on less.) 

A cute handprint and the temple! So that was fun. Wes called and it was good to talk with him. 

We went and visited my mom with my brother, and that was fun. 

And from there we went over to Wayne's. But actually to Nancy's, who lives across the street from Wayne. We had cake on their new deck. 

Katharine had a few pieces of cake, in a few different spots.

Visiting with cousins and grandpa.

Nancy bought a cute little dog recently, he's so cute and little! His name is Doug.

Tiny tiny little puppy, so cute. After cake and visiting, Nancy and her girls were inside and we hung around playing games. Mel and Hyrum worked their FSY magic and led the kids in a game where one person is in the middle holding a pencil, they turn around, the people surrounding them in a circle try to quietly shuffle, then the person in the middle stops and if their pencil is pointing to you, you hold it, then make an animal sound, and they have to guess who it is. 

Most of the time the person in the middle guessed right, even the little kids!

So that was fun, we did that with Wayne until sunset.

and then we headed home. 

Joseph left after church to go up to see Eliza in Idaho. There was a car in front of him, and something fell off into the road and Joseph hit it and it gave him a flat tire. He called when we were at my parent's house and we were telling him to turn back to the closest city where he could get it repaired, but not Joseph! He was determined to see his fiancée!! He had an important gift to deliver to her!

So he didn't listen to most of our counsel and he kept pressing on, going 55 mph, which made the ETA from his trip suddenly much longer. But he'd still make it by dark, rather than wait to get it repaired tomorrow. We kept checking in on him on life 360. Corey said the "protect this drive" at the top seemed like a plea to heaven, haha

That picture tells a good story - what a man will do to be with his woman. And he did make it safely, yay! Official engagement ring was delivered and he probably got a smooch reward for his bravery.

We are thrilled for Joseph and Eliza! Getting married at the end of June. There's a lot to do, Eliza's mom is great and she's doing so much. It feels a little less stressful this time around, (we're probably lucky that we're the parents of the groom again!)