Happy Mother's Day

It was a beautiful day! I just love being "Mom" and "Poma," it's my most fulfilling job. And I must say, Wes and I have produced some pretty spectacular kids!! It feels real good to have them up and out and doing good things and being great humans. We are so proud of all of them. Karlee and Colton and Livi came over after church to wait for missionary Skypes. They brought me a beautiful little cactus plant in a gorgeous blue pot. It's totally me, I love it! :) We gave Karlee a cook book and some Tupperware. Wes gave me a new hand mixer which I had requested since my old one is going out. The new one is the best because it's a pretty Tiffany blue color. ;) Missionary calls were excellent! Relaxed and natural and we just all had a really great visit. Kori called first. Livi got to talk to her for a little bit before she went down for a nap. We had a few glitches. Our Skype got dropped a few times. We went back and forth between Skype and Messenger a little bit. Also, Kori's English is a little rusty. But we managed to have a lovely visit with her. She is happy and vibrant and loving the mission! When Clint joined us on Skype, he and Kori could hear each other, and they could hear us, but we couldn't hear them. We couldn't figure out what the problem was, so we just let Kori and Clint visit with each other. We waved goodbye at that point to Kori, and told Clint to just call us back when he was done talking with Kori. When he called us, the Skype worked just fine and we had a great time with him too. He is so handsome and has changed so much since he's been out. He's in a new area and still learning about it. We only got to talk to him for about a half hour before someone came in and told him to wrap it up. About half of his time was taken up talking to Kori. But that's great because they weren't able to see each other at Christmas and they haven't talked for a year. I'm glad they had that chance to catch up and compare notes. They both were amazed at how big Livi is. She was a little shy with them, but she knew who they were! After Colton and Karlee left, I called to wish my mom a happy day and to tell her about the missionary calls. Then we made cookies, cause we had to try out the new mixer, right? It's been a wonderful day, thank you all my favorites!!

I like being Cider's mom too.