May You Have a Wonderful Mother's Day

 Claire

I found two cute new dresses for the girls on our recent trip to DI and they wore them today for Mother's Day. I watched them sing in the primary during sacrament meeting even though Chris missed out because his stomach was upset. Claire stole Daddy's phone and sent me a macro polo where she took 20 minutes to do her hair, show me her boys, and talk to me about a bunch of stuff. I was literally in the room right next to her listening to her do it and watching on my phone. It sounded a little too much like a make-up tutorial off youtube when she was putting clips in her hair and I can just see how much she loves herself. I'm glad I've instilled a love of herself and I love when she says things like, "mama, I love you, your the bestest in the whole wide world" which is how she started the video.

Shay

We had a park date without Claire because I had gone to the bank with her and finished sending our earnest money for our new house quicker than I anticipated. We had 20 minutes before Claire got out of school and I didn't want to go back home just to get back in the car to get her. We found a new park with this fun dino and one buried in the sand in a corner too. She was a little bored without any friends around and we ended up going back in the car and waiting longer for Claire. While Claire was making a macro polo for me, Shay wanted to take pictures so she started going around with our extra phone like she was in a museum and getting pictures of everything in the house. I really love my daughters so much.

Date

My aunt took the girls for a few hours yesterday so Chris and I could go to the temple and then see a movie together. She drove them into Salt Lake to a big mall with a kid's play area and then spoiled them with dinner and ice cream! I was told that Shay was a little-miss attitude about some things and then fell asleep in the car on the drive home. Other than that, they had fun and told us all about what they got to do. I know I've been to the Bountiful Temple before for family, but this was the first time we went since moving here and will probably be the last because our offer on the house was accepted and we will be moving in 3 weeks! I don't want to jynx anything, but this process of finding a home to buy in time has gone really smoothly and looks to be in the works so we can move in at the beginning of June.