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I know I am late to the game, but Happy Mother's Day to all of you mommies and mommies-to-be out there!

Something has happened to our satellite, and so we have no internet at our house. I haven't been home long enough to try to fix the problem, so it will just have to stay broken until I can get around to calling someone.

I feel like I have lost an appendage when I get home and can't check blogs or email. I had been trying to upload pictures of Gibson for several days before the satellite went kaput, and that post is just sitting on my desktop, waiting to be finished.

Anyway, I hope y'all all had a lovely Mother's Day. I always have a bit of a hard time with this holiday. Brad is always working, so I never see him, and it is usually like any other day at our house. Brad is also not very good at the whole gift-giving thing, so I have to send him a little reminder that he needs to do at least a little something for me -- I mean, I did birth his children, after all! I try to remind myself that it is a made-up holiday, but when other people are on Facebook or about town talking about what fun things their husbands did for them on Mother's Day, it always makes mine seem even more stinky, and I get a little pity-party going on.

However, this was the first year that the kids really knew that it was Mother's Day. They came in to my room when I woke up with all sorts of homemade cards and pictures, and they were so adorable and proud of themselves with their goodies for me. Tyler even made me a fan out of different colored cardstock. Evidently she had been working on it very hard with our babysitter the week before. It was really cute and sweet, and I might have gotten a little misty-eyed over their sweetness -- because, honestly, they have been little monsters a lot lately. But on Mother's Day, their behavior was top-notch, and that is a present in itself!

We went to my parents' house to eat lunch with my parents, my sister and her family, and my grandmother. We had a nice afternoon with family, and a great message and church that evening -- so all in all, it was a good Mother's Day!

(As a funny aside, Sanders asked me on the way to my mom's house how my Granddaddy LG, my mom's dad, died. I told her that he had cancer, and she said "Oh. So he died in the Civil War?" I just loved getting to tell my grandmother that Sanders thinks she is reaaaaaallllly old!)

Sassy Yet Sweet

Sanders' pictures were also great, although in a lot of them it looks like she is thinking Why are you taking my picture? Here are some of her shots:

**All photos taken by Gray Benko Photography

Supermodel

I have to say that Ty really rocked our family pictures. She loves the camera -- she would constantly ask Gray "When can I get in some more pictures by myself?" -- and the camera seems to love her. So, I am thinking that she could have a great career as a supermodel and support me in the manner in which I would like to become accustomed. She just has to keep all of her clothes on.

I just love these!!

**All photos taken by Gray Benko Photography

LOTS To Catch Up On!

:: First of all, and most importantly, we have been praying in our house for all of those who have been hit by all of the horrible storms going throughout our south. The pictures of the devastation are just heartbreaking, and I cannot imagine dealing with such loss -- of property or loved ones. It is so, so sad.

(via Blue Eyed Bride)

:: On a totally superfluous note, did y'all all watch the Royal wedding? We were glued to the tv Friday morning, and I mean glued. I could hardly get the girls to go to school. Even Gibson liked it, but his main interest was the "men with the guns and the funny hats." When Tyler found out that it was Prince William and soon-to-be-Princess Catherine getting married, she looked at Sanders and said "Oh, Sanders, you're a princess!" (Sanders' first name is Catherine.) It was so cute!

And, really, who doesn't want to be a princess?

I loved Kate's dress, Pippa's dress, Prince Harry, all the funny hats, basically everything about it. I have been checking my Us Weekly app constantly to find out everything I can about what went on. So fun!

(images via People)

:: I had a family wedding Saturday night, and I had to go solo. It is the beginning of wedding season and also the beginning of harvest season for all of our various fruits -- and that means that I always get to go to weddings solo. Don't you just hate going to weddings solo?

I think it should be appropriate for a married chick to take a date to a wedding so she doesn't have to be that girl. Don't you? (That's a joke, people.)

::While I was at the wedding, I picked up some family pictures that I had taken by my very talented cousin, Gray. So, for the next several posts, I am going to bore regale you with lots of pictures of my family. Because, if you have been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that I can't weed out any good pictures.

Here is a sneak peek:

They are awesome, really. But that is just my humble opinion.

:: When I woke up this morning, I learned that I went to bed too early for the big news story last night: Osama Bin Laden was killed by our Navy Seals. All I have to say about that is, Good Job Seals! God Bless America!!

Okay, I am off to pick up the little brats from school, and then we have ballet all afternoon and the kids end of the year musical. The fun just never stops.

How Great Thou Art

So, you have probably already seen this video, but I just had to post it here, too. I didn't actually watch the Country Girls Night Out on CBS or whatever it was called, but I have seen this video all over Facebook. We love Carrie Underwood in our house, and we listen to her sing How Great Thou Art all the time. In fact, Sanders does a great version of it herself! ;-)

This night, however, Carrie totally rocked it, and although I am not usually a huge Vince Gill fan, I must say he really was a good bonus on this song. If you haven't already, give it a listen. Your eyes will not be dry by the end, I promise! Because, really, how great is our God???

More Easter Pics

Sorry for the rush of posts in one day, but I am trying to catch up!!

Over Easter, we had an Easter Egg Hunt at our cousin, Cilla's house:

We dyed eggs and then hunted them at Grandmama's house (in our undies, of course!):

We attended a Baptism of a sweet friend, Mary Cabell, and a cousin, Grey, and Tyler also made her First Communion. I don't have any pictures from Maundy Thursday, the night of the actual First Communion, because we were, as usual, in a huge rush to get to the church. It was a wonderful service, though, and Ty did a great job. I can't believe my firstborn is old enough to be making her First Communion already!!

The Easter Bunny visited, of course! (I don't know why this is underlined...Blogger, you make me angry sometimes!!)

Ty helped flower the Cross at church:

And, on a side note, my dad was telling us at lunch today that a total of 1712 people attended Easter services at our church on Sunday. Our church was started in the year 1712 (next year is our 300th anniversary)...pretty cool little fact, huh?

It's Time!

I have had several people ask me to keep them posted on when the time gets near, and now it is here.

What am I talking about????

Blueberries! Start looking in your grocery stores as they will be arriving very soon. Watermelons will be following in the next couple of weeks, then it will be tomato season, and Brad and I won't know if we are coming or going! Now go on out and buy some fresh, delicious produce!!