cards by Val: celebrating Mother's Day

Monday, May 10, 2010

Celebrating Mother's Day

No cards today. Once again it’s all about family. We had a Mother’s Day BBQ here at home. My oldest son Matt came, my youngest son Mark, his fiancée Rachel, baby Madison, (who by the way is almost 19 months! How did that happen, LOL! In just over 5 months she’ll be 2!!) and the rest of her siblings Chris, Jordan, Sebastian, Jesse, Kassandra and Matt. My step daughter Tracey and her sons Alex and Thomas also joined us. We had a wonderful day, the sun came out, the kids had water balloon fights, played ball, then practice jumping over our low front fence. Madison had fun just being outside with the rest of the kids. Mark went round to our little corner store and bought everyone bubblegum ice cream cones! (I’m not ‘into’ bubblegum so gramma said no thanks!) I was a very lucky mom today, my step daughter Tracey bought me a lovely pink flowering hanging basket, Mark & Rachel also bought me a lovely purple flowering hanging basket and my darling hubby bought me some pretty tulips. Tulips are one of my favorite flowers! On the menu today my hubby BBQ'd chicken breast, beef wieners and hamburgers. We had corn on the cob, baked potatoes with sour cream, raw veggies, grapes and strawberries and the usual chips and cheesies. My darling hubby went out this morning to get the shopping in for me and also bought 2 types of cake, a Black Forest and a white one, yummm!! Good food, wonderful company and a great day. I thought I’d be taking loads of pictures today but was so busy with everything and everyone that I just took a few, LOL! I hope everyone enjoyed their special day no matter where you live or whether you’re a ‘mom’ to kids, pets or hubby’s! LOL... Hugs, Valerie

Madison sitting backwards on her race car

Madison standing in this diry old wagon, LOL!

loading up the wagon

having her first try at corn on the cob! yummy

reading a book quietly with her papa

hugging her baby doll and having a good laugh with her papa

kissing her baby doll

oh so pretty tulips from my darling hubby, Ted

lovely pink hanging basket from my stepdaughter, Tracey and her 2 boys

lovely purple hanging basket from Mark, Rachel and family

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Celebrating Mother's Day

Hi everyone,
I had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend. The photos below are of 1/2 of my family (DH took the photos for me). My son's Mark and Matt along with Mark's family took me out for an early Mother's Day lunch on Sat May 9th. It was a wonderful day being with both my son's as I don't often get both of them together at the same time. On Mother's Day my DH and I met friends for an early breakfast at one of our favorite family restaurants.
The last photo is of Rachel and I at my chapter's Mom's brunch at Horizon's on Burnaby Mtn.