Celebrating

Today we celebrated Mother's Day. After church our friends Kenneth & Lesley and their two children came over for lunch. The men had planned to pick up food and take us on a picnic, but the forecast was for thunderstorms and hail, so we had everyone to our house instead. Of course, no rain or hail... Kenneth, Lesley, & kids are from Johannesburg, South Africa. They are here while Kenneth is in school and sadly I think he will be finished with his degree next May. That means they will be leaving us and going back home. Lesley and I met about a year before they came stateside during the application process for school - so we like to tell people we met on the internet. :) They are such great friends - and they have beautiful accents that you could listen to all day!

Chris and Wilson gave me a wonderful apron from Williams-Sonoma. It is personalized with my name, "Mommy" (because that is my name as far as Wilson is concerned, and he helped pick it out). You might think this is kind of a strange gift for Mother's Day, but I LOVE cooking and I HATE laundry, so I've always wanted an apron. And this one is great! I love it, so thank you boys for getting me such a great gift!

We had another great day together as a family - of course, we are missing our own parents. Today my beautiful niece had her baby dedication and then there was a lunch over at Mom and Dad's. We would have loved to have been there with everyone, but we will get to go up in a few months. That's good, because I would like to be able to hold Adison before she gets to big to cuddle.

We hope all of our friends and our family had a beautiful Mother's Day. We love and miss you all very much.