Mother's Day Weekend

My weekend started out on Friday at around 3:30pm in the afternoon. I left town with my good friends from my old ward family whom I miss dearly! Carol Galloway, Kristie Arnold, Dianna Barton and Tina Dimmitt. We all piled into Carol's car and headed down to the San Diego Temple to attend an endowement session. It was great to sit next to these wonderful women and feel the love of friendship that we have for one another. I love that about the gospel where it gives us opportunities to learn to connect with others.

After the temple we went and got some dinner and then chocolate. Then headed down to San Diego to the Hilton Gaslamp Hotel downtown. We stayed there for the night and stayed up and chatted and laughed until 2am! I miss laughing that hard and its great to be able to enjoy it from time to time.

I woke up the next morning at 6am to start the showers because we had only one bathroom between the 5 of us and I was for sure the fastest one at getting ready plus I had to make it over to the convention center across the street to pick up our tickets for the Time Out for Women. We got room service for breakfast and then Carol and I headed off while the others continued to get ready.

Read the "Time Out for Women" post to get more details about that.

After Time Out for Women I said goodbye to my sleepover group and headed off with Trent's side of the family and went to Rosie's Quilt Shop to pick out fabric for Baby Easton's bedding. By the time we got out of downtown and arrived I had only 30 minutes! If you have ever been to that store that isn't enough time! Its an amazing place with great fabric choices and I love to go in and spend about 2 hours in there but this time it didn't work out that way. However I did find 3 pieces for the bedding and 2 pieces for a nursing cover.

After the fabric store we headed up to San Marcos and had dinner together around 5pm and then Hope, Susan and I still wanted to make a day of it so we window shopping that turned into a fun shopping experience for me because I found the shrug I have been looking for for the past 3 weeks at Target for a dress that I bought. I was so excited. I also picked up some breakfast items and dessert for Mother's Day (just in case) and ended up having to use them so it was a good thing I did or I don't know what I would have eaten.

The morning of Mother's Day Trent and the girls made me cereal and a smoothie for breakfast! The best part was that Trent helped the girls make a cute handprint card for me and Reeghan actually wrote her own card and sounded out what she wanted to say to me and of course the spelling was wrong but it was so cute to see that she wanted to write those words for me.

At church the primary got to sing a few songs and Reeghan did so well. She learned the songs and would occasionally look over at me to smile. It was way too cute! Last year she just sat up there and did nothing. When she came back down Paetan tells her, "Good Job, Reeghan!" and gave her a big hug and kiss! They were so cute together today and especially towards me. They behaved and I kept giving them compliments and positive feedback and I noticed that it does work. They love it! After church we headed over to Trent's parents and each of his siblings came over as well and we all had dessert together. It was a very enjoyable and fulfilling weekend. I have been blessed.

My whole weekend was my Mother's Day gift from Trent! So, Thank You! Thank You! I love you to pieces! This meant alot to me to be able to just take a "time out" from motherhood to learn about being a mom and refocusing my energy to my life calling here on this earth.