Happy Mother's Day

We had a beautiful Mother's Day, full of good food, sweet family, and gorgeous weather!  Happy Mother's Day!

"A Mother's Heart is always with her children." -Proverb

The Scene

Sunny San Diego- The Loflen's Street!

The People

The Radford's couldn't come today.  Happy Mother's Day Aunt Ali!

Claire!

Sweet Emma!

Oliver, investigating the backyard.

Talking to her Aunt Chelsea!

Uncle Nurse Matthew, works long hours

and late shifts.  He was snoring!

Talking about the Navy!

An October Pumpkin growing in a belly!

Claire getting cozy!

Sam sharing her Avon catalogs with us!  Avon

is fun!

So is Oprah's new Starbuck's Chai Grammie was

drinking!  (Mommy likes this quote.)

Shopping.

Archery.

Trying on new swim stuff!

The Food

Enjoying Uncle Chad's cooking!

Grammie checking the future food that will

come from the garden!

Grammie's herbal gifts to her daughters.

(Mommy in the middle.)

Mother's Cookies!

Art Project

Mommy brought yesterdays Library Art Gallery

Project to make with the kids.

Wood illusions!

Drawing lines and tracing hands.

Claire helped Mommy!

Cuteness.  She was also interested in taking 

Mommy's bracelets!

Sweetness!

Aunt Jess and Claire's Hand on her wood board!

 Mothers and their Children

Sam and Emma

Aunt Jess and Claire

Aunt Jess took a ton of pics of Mommy and Oliver.  None of them

were really simple.  Mommy found the following quote to sum

up the sequence of pictures Aunt Jess took:

 My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

-Mark Twain-

Sigh.

Diane and Joan.

Chad, Diane, and Brett.

Aunt Jess, Mommy, Grammie, and Uncle Matthew.

We hope Aunt Ali gets better soon.

 Quirky Things

We enjoyed looking at a new house painting on

the street.  Thoughts?

Mommy enjoyed looking at Aunt Jessica's belly!

Mommy likes baby bellies!

Claire and Mommy danced a little to Frozen.

Claire running in circles!

Claire with her great grandma.

Trash cans can be quirky....

Especially when little boys are in them!

Carrying the garden bed we all got for Grammie!

She was super excited!

Everyone wanted to see!

Home

The wind pushed our gate closed.  Oliver opened 

it for Mommy because, "It's Mother's Day."  

Thank you Oliver.

Oliver wrote Mommy a sweet message!

Lots of sweetness in this picture!

Happy Mother's Day!