I love dandelions.  So does Savannah.  She took ten pictures of this one that she found.  It takes a real connoisseur to recognize the subtle differences in each dandelion and recognize the truly great ones.  Seriously!  Free yellow flowers everywhere!  God is so awesome.  :)

Bethany has a new favorite thing to do around our house.  Her very most favorite thing is still to watch Dora.  Specifically, Dora Saves the Snow Princess.  Although, she might prefer Dora Saves the Mermaids.  She did have an impressive tantrum when I couldn’t turn it on for her because I had deleted it accidentally.  I digress.

Dad has bought us an iPad!  Actually, Dad bought himself an iPad and everyone in the house uses it.  Since Bethany doesn’t have the computer/mouse combination  figured out, this iPad is really her first foray into computer games.  Oh!  She loves it!  I love that she can be entertained by something other than the TV!  Hopefully, she is learning something along the way, too!  Hopefully, she will also learn to share!  Lol!

It did come in handy this week, though, as I was finishing a project that has been a lot of fun for me for almost two months now . . .

SKIRTS!!  They’re for Cali and Cheyenne’s piano recital next week.  I know that two skirts should not take two months to finish, but when you have a life like mine, you just have to be flexible, start WAY in advance, and enjoy the little blocks of time you may or may not get here and there to work on it.  Anyway, my cousin, Wendy, designed this pattern and she makes the cutest clothes for her girls to wear and I’ve just been so excited to try for my own girls.  It’s been so fun and I’m so pleased with how they turned out!

This weekend was the annual Utah Coalition Against Pornography conference in Salt Lake City.  Kevin had a booth! (Like he has every year for the past seven years . . .)

And since there is only one of him and many people interested in what he has to offer, I went with him to help talk to people.  We were there from about 7:30 to about 2:00 in the afternoon.  We talked to a lot of people!   It’s good to see how many people really want to help.  I am proud of Kevin and all that he has done to help people reclaim lives they thought they had lost for good.  It was easy for me to be sincere with people who wanted to know about Kevin’s products!

In order to be at the conference, of course, we left all eight of our children home without us.  Yikes!  That is what I thought initially, but it turns out that they don’t even need me around here!  They took care of the babies, did all their Saturday jobs, kept track of one another, and even attended the ward party on their own!  Holy Cow, right?  AND when I walked in the door, they gathered around and shouted, “Happy Mother’s Day!”  because it turns out they not only did their Saturday chores, but cleaned the entire house as well.  What great kids!  I also found out on Sunday that they also took some time to make me a video for Mother’s Day where they recorded for all time that they like me!  I like them, too.  I am so blessed to have them and can not imagine my life without them.  On Mother’s Day they thank me for being their mother and all I can think is how much I want to thank them for making me one.

THERE IS NOTHING IN ALL THE WORLD BETTER THAN BEING A MOTHER!!!