Mothers Day and other fun.

Life has been busy. Mother's Day was mostly spent at church. That weekend we talked to mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers, and we took a picture for our facebook tradition. We started it a couple years ago but I don't think we did it last year. It's for my mom, and my siblings and I take pictures with a sign saying "blessed" or "bienaventurada" and use it as our profile pictures. This year my sister AA and I did it, and the first year it was all four of us. It's a reference to Proverbs 31:28: "Her children arise and call her blessed"

 This is the first one:

Sunday we went to church. All dressed up. HAHA! I love Miss E's eclectic sense of style :P!!

Mr E won Daddy's heart by looking at him from the nursery's window with a Shrek gatito face. And he got picked up and taken to the service with Daddy and Mommy. But first, we had coffee and donuts. Of course. 

After church, we took this picture at a booth a very creative lady set up in the lobby! I thought it was such a cute idea, and we had fun with it.

As for the rest of the time, we've been going out with friends and working on our yard still. I love the whole gardening thing, but we have such bad soil that I have to be watering it all the time. I think we're going to have to plant things in containers from now on!

Miss E went to a tea party for a friend's birthday in late April

We went to the library and the park with my friend M and her children.

And my Bible study group's semester has ended, but on May 10th (Mexican Mother's Day) we went to the children's museum and then to the pond nearby to feed the ducks. I don't usually take both kids on an outing like this on my own, but once I got over the fear of losing one of them, it was fun to watch all the kids (who play together each week away from our sight) be together and enjoy the excitement of a busy, lively space.

That's it for now! Hopefully we get some replanting done this weekend, and some serious down time! I think everyone I know is overwhelmed right now. I blame it on the holiday-after-holiday thing. We've decided to stop celebrating aaaaaall the socially dictated holidays (we'll stick to religious holidays and anniversary) and only really celebrated mother's day at church this year by taking that photo booth picture. We went to MacDonald's after church, as usual, and had a wonderful time just enjoying our day. Life is very busy as it is these days- so I'm trying to simplify however I can.

Finally, I want to add a picture I took one day while Miss E was putting her sandals on to go out. She was just so precious to me, my beautiful little girl.