Butterfly in my garden
We packed up everything and left the campground for home to celebrate Mother’s Day together. How proud I am of the mothers the girls have become and the love they have for their kids and husbands. They are our good success from the Lord as we follow him, and it passes down to every generation. God is faithful!
Abi was the first one to wish me a happy Mother’s Day. I texted her bask right away and thanked her and she texted me back. Such a sweet girl! I talked to Kenzie and she said they were coming and she said not to tell anyone because she wanted to surprise them. Then she texted me back and said Travis had to pick up his brother from his sisters house, so she wouldn’t be able to come. Then she texted that she might come in the truck. It isn’t working real well and not to reliable for her and Rehvyn so she didn’t make it. We ate a sandwich on our way for breakfast. I tried to listen to our church message, but the volume wouldn’t work too well. We could listen to worship which was awesome even though we couldn’t hear it real well. We decided to wait to listen to Pastor’s message because it was very hard to hear. We stopped when we got to Freeland and picked up the pizzas we had ordered, then we headed to our house. I fed the fish and made sure there was jelly in the feeders. I wiped off all the outside tables which were pretty dirty, and then got the cushions out and put them on the swings and chairs. Bill brought some of our stuff in from the camper. I put our pizza in the oven. Kimmy, Jared and the kids got here and Jared put their pizzas in the oven too. Vikki got here next, then Rody and Isaac came a while later. Hailey, Evan and Jack were next, then Melissa, Bruce and Max got here. We ate our pizza’s, breadsticks, cheese bread, and cookies. We all had a wonderful time hanging out together. We stayed outside most of the day because it was beautiful out and warmer outside than in, because we had been gone for 4 days and had the heat off. Vikki, Kimmy and families gave me a black two wheel cart to use for my gardening, weeding and whatever. It is so easy to pull. Kimmy just got one and loves it and I have seen pictures of Jared’s mom’s. I can’t wait to use it. Melissa and her family got me my beautiful hanging plant for in front of the house which has been a tradition for many years. I certainly was blessed. I got my bag and showed Bill what he got me...all of the stuff I got at the gift shop while we were in Falmouth lol. A cute salt and pepper set, a cross necklace and a beautiful metal butterfly for my garden. It was regularly $42 and was on sale for $15. Thank you everyone! We sat by the fire pit on the deck when it was cooler and had it going. The kids had fun playing basketball, knife throwing and having walking races around our house. They are such fun kids. Then Kimmy, Melissa, Vikki and I walked around and looked at our fish, all of my plants and the ferns coming up in the woods. Kimmy looked at Bill’s shed deck which Bill power washed last year, but didn’t have time to get stained. She said it was a nice cool day and we should stain it right now while we had everyone here to help. I said no, but Vikki was all in and was saying yes we should. I told them to check with dad and he was saying yes too. It was pretty amazing when Jared and I went down to the basement and there was the big pail of stain, and we found enough brushes for everyone and enough cool whip containers for our stain. (I had saved the ones we used last time). We took them upstairs and we all went out to the deck. Kimmy had it swept off and ready. We lined up and each took our number of boards all across the deck. Then we just kept moving back after the small area had its second coat. 45 minutes later, the deck was finished. Jacob and Adam did the steps when we got to that part. What a wonderful helpful, hardworking family and what a great Mother’s day gift. Oh I almost forgot. Earlier in the day, Bill came up to me and said he had a gift for me. I looked and he had my hug ring that he had got for me and also one for all of the girls. I had lost mine when we were camping and had told him about it and asked him to let me know if he found it. I thought it might be in the motorcycle, but we traveled all over so it could have been anywhere. Well yesterday, he was out in the yard and told the boys he had something in his shoe. He had felt it before but didn’t check it out. It was my ring! What another great Mother’s Day gift.
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