You Are My Sunshine: Mother's Day 2012

This Mother's Day was fantastic!! John and the kids all did a good job to make it really special. It got started on Saturday when John got me some beautiful flowers. Almost 2 weeks later they have just started to get brown and wilted.

As with most things in our family most of Mother's Day revolved around food. John made all the food that day. He often (as in most of the time) takes over the meal preparation on Sunday. This time though I was NOT allowed to help out in any way. I tried but he kept kicking me out of the kitchen. He made scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast with yummy muffins I bought at Sam's. After breakfast I opened my presents and cards. The kids all made me the cutest cards. The kids got me a gift card to Kohl's and John bought me a a GPS. I had asked for one for a future purchase (b-day, Christmas) so this was completely unexpected and very appreciated. I have since used it a lot. John even test drove it before he gave it to me. He is now jealous of my GPS.

For dinner John grilled steaks, made me a yummy and beautiful veggie salad (see below) a fruit salad, and roasted red potatoes. Everything was perfection.

The family right before dinner.

Karena had gone to Sam's with John on Saturday and decided she wanted to buy me a dessert. At first she looked at the cakes (too expensive) and then settled on pie. This particular pie was delicious and very interesting. It was four fruit pies in one - cherry, peach, blueberry and apple. They had each fruit in one quarter of the pie. I tried a yummy combination of peach and cherry.