Mother's Day

I had a great Mother's Day this year.

It started off Saturday night - when the boys brought me a gift to open. I actually already knew I was getting this because Will ordered it through my Amazon Prime account.  He knew that too, because he wanted me to choose between two different cocoa makers.

But what he forgot was when he ordered the Ghirardeli hot cocoa mix that also came to my inbox.  Winner winner chicken dinner - this man knows the way to my heart!

The next morning I was totally asleep and having random dreams when I heard "Good morning!". I slowly opened my eyes to see all my boys standing at the end of my bed and Will was holding a tray of breakfast that they had made for me!

I have to say I was not quite awake yet or ready for food, but it was an AMAZING breakfast and I was super excited and honored that they did that for me.

And Preston and Taylor made me cards. So cute! 

Preston also made me something cute in Kindergarten...

And Riley and I of course spent most of church in the Mother's lounge...so what better way to pass the time than to take selfies. LOL Honestly it's because I can't get enough of my baby boy.

Then we went to church.  Before doing so though, I had Will snap a shot of the boys and I...

After church I tried to contain the boys in their church clothes as long as possible for Will to get some more shots, but they were just begging to rip those clothes off as soon as possible.  "Momma how many minutes will it be until we're done?" was something I heard almost every other minute. This photo shoot literally took less than 5 minutes. Haha!

After we took the photos, we packed a little picnic (thanks to Will) and went to a nearby park and had some family fun.  

Most of these pics were me just practicing how to use our Panasonic Lumix - and I love that I was able to capture all 5 of us in this pic.  Still feels weird to say all FIVE of us...

I felt so special and blessed this Mother's Day and so thankful for my little family.  I am so blessed.  Also blessed to have wonderful mothers as our's as well....

P.S. I blogged about Riley's baby blessing as well.  It's HERE.

Riley's Baby Blessing

So Riley had his special day - May 4th, 2014 - where he was blessed and given a name on the records of the church as Riley Finn Thomas.  Will gave him a beautiful blessing (which is written down), and he only mildly cried through it. :)  He was 7 weeks old the day of his blessing. Here are some of the photos from the special day...

Do you like my photo bombers in the background?

Lots of family came for the blessing and it was really nice to fill up 2 full rows in Sacrament meeting with family members.

Before church...my mom holding Riley

My Grandma Lindsay, my mom, Riley, and my dad with Taylor.

Me, Preston, my mom, and Riley

Sandy (Will's mom), Gwenevere, Grace, Dan (Will's Dad), Elizabeth, and Everett.

My dad with Taylor.

We all left after Sacrament meeting to come back to our home for an early dinner with the family...

And if this isn't cute enough, Grandma T totally decided to match my baby. :)  Ha! I'm teasing. But it is pretty funny that they both ended up in matchy-matchies!

Hawaiian Haystacks!

Church really wears ya out. :)

This is SO not on the lose-the-baby-weight plan, but oh so worth it.  Costco chocolate layered cake is to die for.

Cousins watching a movie! Cuties.  I think it's funny how Preston always holds up whatever toy he is holding for pictures.  And Taylor-bug always has the best smile for photos.  Seriously that kid is smiley.

We also took some family portraits of everyone who came, so here they are...

From left to right are Patrick & Tessha (Will's older sister), Will, me, my dad, Grandma Lindsay (my grandma), Alisha (Will's sister), Elizabeth (Will's sister), James (B-in-law), Sandy (Will's mom), my mom.  Then on the floor from left to right is one of Patrick's sons and I feel so bad I can never remember their names.  Then Gwenevere, another Laing kid, Taylor, Preston, Dan (Grandpa T) and Grace.  

I absolutely LOVE this photo of all my boys. :) Such handsome specimens.

I thought it was fun to go back and see the progression of each child on their blessing day...it's also fun to see how everyone has grown and changed.

So fun to see my Grandpa Lindsay in this photo. Miss him.

Anyway, it was a great day.  We were fulfilled with having so much family around.  

Riley you have completed our family and we are so happy to have you with us. You are such a sweetie pie and we love you very much.

P.S. It was fun to see Will go through his baby book and read his baby blessing that he was given from his dad, and also look through photos. I've always thought Riley looked a LOT like Will, and these photos prove it.