Mother's Day weekend

We had a great long Mother's Day weekend. We kicked it off by having Cody's parents come up to our house for dinner Friday night. We gave Cody's mom a flowering plum tree that she loves. When Cody opened up our garage to show her, there were two trees standing there. He told his mom that the tree on the right was hers and I looked at him and asked, "Oh, well then who's tree is on the left?" He laughed and told me "Happy Mother's Day!". He gave me a blazing maple tree. It's awesome! Cerola played outside with Aubrey and her friend Kate. Aubrey now knows how to play hopscotch! I made homemade strawberry ice cream for the first time. We bought the ice cream maker from the Lintons last year before we moved from Maryland, but I never took the time to make anything. It was delicious! Nothing beats homemade ice cream!

Cody and his Dad went and bought a shovel (you can tell we are new homeowners because we own NOTHING for a yard), some potting soil and they planted my tree.

Saturday we drove up to Logan and helped my sister and her husband out at their house. They are moving into an older home that needs a bunch of work done on it and we did all the outside yard work.

Sunday morning at 6:00am we were woken up to a darn woodpecker pecking our rooftop. It likes to start at 6 every morning. Cody has to go outside and throw a rock at it to get it to shut up. We are borrowing a BB gun for the next time it comes (of course this morning it didn't make a noise). We did get to see this at 6 in the morning! I love our views!

Here's my little maple tree. Every year on Mother's Day I'm going to take a picture of my kids by it to see how big it grows.

I'm so blessed to be a mother to my 3 cute kids. They can drive me crazy at times, but I always love them at the end of the day.

Because Cody and I just moved into our house my grandparents decided that we should host a Mother's Day dinner for my dad's side of the family. It was so fun to have all my relatives that were in town come up for the afternoon. These are the great grandchildren from my Dad's family.
These are all my cousins, siblings and spouses that were able to come. Good times. : ) Unfortunately the lighting was horrible for all the pictures. We don't have blinds yet and you can obviously tell.
And here's my hardworking hubby who does so much for me. Thanks for making my Mother's Day special!
I'm so grateful for my Mom and Cody's Mom. They are both great and do so much for us! We love you!

On a side note...Tucker was able to go up with the primary for the first time yesterday and "sing" songs about mother's to us in sacrament meeting. Of course he didn't sing, but he smiled and waved at me a ton. Love that boy!