A Day Just For Mom

Last week my Momma turned 54!

She is proud to age and is grateful to see another year.

My siblings and I do not take my Momma's birthday lightly.

We learned early that my Mom expects us to intentionally show her love on the day she was birthed into this world.

One year when my brothers, sisters, and I were teenagers we did not put much effort forth into making my Mom's birthday a special one.

My Mom sat us all down and told us that it hurt her feelings and she feels like she deserves extra love & planning for her birthday.

My siblings and I did not take this conversation lightly.

We heard the heart of a hardworking, loving, and single Mom of 5 kids.

Now every year we plan in advance for her birthday and we give her a NICE gift . Gifts are her Love Language.

We have not disappointed her since that unforgettable conversation.

This year we blessed her with a family breakfast, a trip to Tiffanys, and made a family outing to the Academy Arts of Science in San Francisco.

Mother loved it ALL!
Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Exodus 20:12

A Day in the Woods

Every since my husband and I seen the movie Rise Planet of the Apes we have been wanting to go to Muir Woods. Muir Woods is where a couple of scenes took place in the movie, including the last one. Do you remember the famous line "Ceasar is home"? It was said at Muir Woods. Muir Woods is only about 1.5 hours from our home. We had an open Saturday last Saturday, so we called up my Sister and made it happen!

This is what I thought I was wearing:

Purple Shirt: B.Arden

White Pants: UnionBay

Purple shoes: Nike Free

You take a risk wearing white pants as a woman, mother, and human being. To make a long story short I did not even make it to the truck with those white pants on my legs.

What I really Wore:

Jeans:Guess

It was a beautiful from the beginning and entrance!

It was so nice experiencing it with my Sis and her boyfriend.

The kids were quite impressed too. They were just pointing at all the big beautiful trees!

Girl would have loved to lead us where ever she wanted to go & be our tour guide.

I kept on telling myself God could of given us anything but he chose AMAZING!

Of course we could not leave without getting some cute pictures of the kiddos!

Girl did not want TiTi(what they call my Sisters)to let her go...smart Girl!

I love the way Boy & Girl love on each other. So many special moments like this one.

I also love seeing life through their little eyes.

Watching Mr. Wonderful father never gets old too!

It's always a job to get our family of 4 in 1 picture. It's getting harder and harder to get both of them to look up at the camera & at the same time. I had to put Boy's shoe up for him to look up. I call it a Mommy trick.

This owl was at the exit to wish us a good night and say goodbye.

Our first X on the Summer List and it was a lovely X to pen in! Onto the next on the list....

What makes me smile...Family Photo Shoot!

I love love love the Christmas Season! I am especially  in the spirit because it will be JoJo's 1st. I wanted to make sure we captured her and the family in this season .  We had a Christmas/Fall photo shoot a couple of weeks ago. Believe it or not this was my birthday gift from my husband. Yes my birthday is in August and I told him I wanted a Christmas/Fall photo session in November. I am so glad I waited patiently for 3 months to receive my birthday gift. Thank you to my husband and once again to our photographer, Melissa! I have already did our Christmas Cards, a Pinterest project, and have a couple other ideas for these photos!