The Story of Us: He Is Mother Shout Hooray!

If you can't tell from the title this blog post will be a combination of Easter, Mothers Day, and Ben's Birthday. We didn't party too hard on any of these holidays so they didn't seem to need their own posts, but we did take pictures I wanted to post so I figured this was the best option.

On the Saturday before Easter we invited over our friends Calan, Josh, and Owen. Owen is just a month younger than Riley so we thought maybe it'd be fun for him to come over for a little Easter Egg hunt and dye some eggs. The egg hunt was definitely a good time, but the dying eggs was definitely a stressful time. At one point Owen's parents just let him drink the vinegary colored liquid to try and show him it wasn't actually yummy, but it didn't really deter him much! I thought Riley would love being allowed to play with eggs because she often tries to get into them when I'm using them to cook, but she only wanted to grab the eggs that were soaking in the cups. It was a pretty tearful afternoon.

On Sunday I set out a basket for Riley and hid two baskets for Britt and Ben. Riley was thrilled with one specific item in her basket, Paw Patrol fruit snacks. She didn't even know they were fruit snacks. She just knew it was a little bag with her favorite pups on it. Oh! I almost forgot! I actually started Easter the most Easterly way possible! I saved a bunnies life! I opened our back door and saw a fox in our backyard! I was totally thrown, but then as the fox is staring at me I see a little bunny bolt from one of the bushes near the fox and run across the street while the fox retreats the other way. It was wild! (Although I can't save all the bunnies. A few months later as I was mowing the lawn I discovered a bunny carcass.) :(

Mid chew after discovering the eggs were filled with treats!

I have almost no memory of what we did for Ben on his birthday. He worked on his actual birthday, but we tried to make the Saturday before a special day. He'd spoiled me so much on my birthday that I wanted to return the favor, but either I'm easier to please or he just knows me better because other than food related surprises I couldn't think of much. I attempted to make a special breakfast of beignets. I don't like the smell oil leaves when you fry stuff so even though Ben had bought a beignet mix a long time ago we'd never made them. Well either that mix being so old really affected the taste or it wasn't as good as it claimed because they were very mediocre tasting, but Ben and Britt claimed they were good. For his present I bought him a big computer screen for him since he's often said he wished he could have two things up at once for working purposes. Well once I gave him that present he was so excited about it he spent the next few hours of his birthday celebration day doing work on it. It's hard to pamper him much. The one thing I can do on his birthday is make a sheet cake, so we had sheet cake to celebrate our doctor entering his thirties!

For Mother's Day I didn't require much. We've never really done gifts on Mother's or Father's day, probably because I have to reduce the amount of times a year I need to try and come up with a gift for Ben. :) All I wanted for Mother's day was a cute picture with Riley which does require some real effort! With Britt behind the camera and Ben providing smiling material we came out with a few darling pictures!