Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the ladies in the crowd!!!

I hope you had a wonderful day, celebrating you and all the fabulous Mother's in your life :)

We had a nice day, it started out with a short sleep-in for me and a lovely gift from my family!  Earlier in the week, I also received some very sweet gifts from Blake and Em.  Emerson brought home a hand print mold from preschool on Thursday afternoon.  It's so cute, personalized with feathers and 'jewels' :)  She was so proud of it, I love it!!  And on Friday afternoon, Blake came off the bus with the biggest, cutest grin on his face!!  He walked down the bus stairs, looking at me with that grin and passed me a potted plant, saying, "Happy Mother's Day Mommy!!"  I almost melted, he was so proud of the pot he planted and painted :)  These moments are some of the best in the life of a Mom :)

This morning was the year end Sunday school celebration at Church, celebrating everyone who is moving into a different Sunday school program and those graduating high school, college, etc, as well as thanking all the Sunday school teachers.  Blake is moving from Beginner's to Kids Praise in Sunday school and received a very nice wooden cross necklace and certificate :)  He was called to the front of the Church and was quite proud of himself!  Emerson will be in beginner's again and Reese will move from the nursery into beginner's when she turns 3!  Following the service there was a BBQ lunch in the garden area outside, it was nice morning, with nice company (including the Parenteau's!), although Reese did not want to be there this morning ... ;)

After Church we went to my parents house in Stony Plain.  We visited the park, went for ice cream and had a BBQ.  Cal and Dad put our new trailer hitch together and figured out our trailer brake problems.  The boys watched some hockey, with Blake doing his usual pacing and jumping around in front of the t.v.!!  He was very excited to see Hall, Eberle and Schultz playing for Team Canada in the World Championship's!  It was nice to spend the afternoon/evening at Mom and Dad's :)  It was such a gorgeous day outside, especially nice when the sun was behind the clouds.  +27 with the sun behind the clouds in much preferable to +27 with the sun beating down on you, in my opinion that is!!  We walked around Rotary park and took some nice photo's, which I still have to download!

I hope you had a wonderful day, spent celebrating all the fabulous Mom's in your life :)  Much love and respect to all you Mom's!!  I know, without a doubt, it is the hardest job in the World!!

xo Tracy

5 Peaks Trail Running Series

Cal completed his 1st of 5 trail runs on Saturday morning.  He chose the enduro course, meaning he ran 2 laps of the 8 km trail.  He's been looking forward to these trail runs but hadn't trained as much as he had hoped to!!  I was at ball hockey with the girls and Blake, so was anxious to hear how he did!  He texted me when he was leaving, something along the lines of, "I'm on my way home.  It was *&%! hard!!!"  A lot different from road racing ... but he enjoyed it and will be training more for the next 15 km trail race on June 7th!!  I couldn't believe how muddy his shoes were but apparently they had to cross at creek at one point during the race!  His brother Gerry ran the sport course (8 km) and they actually ran together for a few km, which was nice, especially since Gerry shared his water with Cal who was in desperate need of some H2O during the last leg of the race ;)  Once ball hockey is over, the kids and I will be there cheering Cal on, we can't wait!  We're so proud of him!!  And Blake is hoping to participate in a 1 km kids event :)

~ Tracy