So I finally quit laughing long enough to write about my wonderful Mother's Day.
I had a really good Mother's Day. Mykalyn cooked breakfast for me. She really is getting to be a great little cook. I woke up to scrabbled eggs (but she made 4 and I couldn't eat them all), 2 pieces of toast and an orange Julius except we didn't have any orange juice so she made it with strawberry daiquiri mix. That was pretty good. She got me an Americana piece for the kitchen, some Linder balls and a card. The card was actually one of the ready made ones I had downstairs. It was a get well card, but she crossed out all the get well stuff and put in her own words. Cute and full of ingenuity.
Brigam made me fridge magnets at cub scouts that spell MOM or WOW depending on how you turn them. Sometimes they even spell MOW or WOM. That makes him giggle. He also drew me a couple of pictures. He is WAY into the Marines right now. So my pics were of tanks and stuff. We need to get him out of that phase. He loves looking at automatic guns on line. I think that's a little sick for an 8 year old, right? He also sang with the Primary the traditional Mother's Day songs. Well, he kind of sang, I don't know if he doesn't know the words or if he just is embarrassed about singing. He only sang a couple of words in each song. But he hugged me A LOT. I love that.
Jeremy's gift was really from the heart. Instead of handing out flowers at church this year (which I didn't miss because then I have to carry a potted flower around for two more hours and try not to get dirt on the floor), they had all the Aaronic Priesthood boys get up and share something about why they love their moms. They had known about this for a few weeks. Most of the boys just got up there and said one or two reasons. Jeremy really put his heart into it. He was funny, oh so funny. We all had many comments about to his tribute to me and his humor. In fact, one of the guys said to dad, "Your wife has a lot of women really jealous of her after that tribute." I just thought, "I deserve that awesome tribute after what I put up with for 13 years until we could each stand each other." It was really sweet and I will always remember that.
He had a list of things that he loved me for. I'll list a few here and summarize the "funny" he said with it. The first thing he mentioned was that he was grateful for my humorous personality, he said with out it he probably wouldn't be as funny as he is. He was grateful for the way he was disciplined when he was younger because he sees other little kids round now and they have no discipline and they are out of control. He loves me for making him his little brown sack lunches for school because if I didn't make him one, from lunch time on it would ruin his whole day not to have one. I drive him to school and places, most of the time. The trust I have for him and the freedom I give him. The for lessons he's taught by me. For raising him in the church, he wouldn't be who he is without that. Most of the time I stop what I am doing to help him find something, like, "did you look in the laundry room?" "No" "Go look." "What do you know, here it is." Coming to ALL his sporting events. For the advise I give him. He ended it by saying "That's a small portion of why I love my mother. I love you mom." How cool was that?
Tyler Morgan was pretty funny too when he complimented his mother for all she does, tirelessly and said, "Mom, you're a Stallion." THAT was funny and Bro. Morgan and I teased her the rest of church about that one. Things like, "Why the long face?" and "At least he didn't call you an old nag." It was good for those of us who had teenage boys to hear that. I think it was that way for others as well, but who knows. They plan on doing the same thing for the men for Father's day. Mike told me he'd help Mykie write hers. :)
It was a good Mother's Day with me not having to fix anything to eat so it all tasted SUPER good. Food always tastes better when you are the one that doesn't have to make it. The only thing that could make it better was if I was able to talk to Tyler on the phone. But he was in the MTC so that meant so phone call for me. I think that a group of young women/young men in Utah should get all their cell phones together and drop them off to the MTC for the missionaries to use on that Sunday. I need to get a hold of President Monson and let him know my super great idea. Hee, hee.
It's so nice to have one day set aside to have the kids really focus on their Mommy, but I think my kids are pretty good as it is being grateful for what I do. I'm pretty lucky to have the kids I have.
The views were beautiful. It was a lot of work. The climb was a little strenous, but with Chloe on the end of the leash, I was able to be pulled up the mountain. I heard a lot of comments on our way up from people coming down saying "That dog's never going to make it." They don't know her too well, do they? She pulled me up and more. She wanted to go faster than she could pull me. By the time we got down, she was one filthy doggie. I decided that she was dirty enough that she needed to take a dip in the stream we passed on our way up. Silly me. 
On our way home, Mike decided to take the "scenic route". We saw a lot of those windmill thingys. Those things were HUGE. Jeremy loved to be like a dog and stick his head out the window. He was really crazy, but that's just Jeremy. I don't know if he was trying to make his side of the car fly or not, but I did get a great shot in the mirror!
