Mother's Day

It may be disappointing that I don't have any monumental, earth shattering feelings about my "First Mother's Day". Don't get me wrong, I love being a Mom, I love MY mom and yet, I don't feel 'special' enough to be celebrated once a year. ;) lol. Anyway, with that said... I had a wonderful day. We went to church where we had a wonderful testimony meeting (last week was stake conference here), then I taught a lame and ill prepared lesson (that totally could have been better but i digress...) to the poor YSA class and then off to Relief Society to hear Candi's lesson (inturrupted by my son who spit up all over my brown skirt! and needed a diaper change so i missed half). It was so great though, I had so many very sincere congratulations and happy mother's days that I felt loved and supported so thank you.
Tomorrow at 1pm we have an appearance at our local courthouse to finalize Evan's Adoption. I'm relieved I do not have the feelings I thought I could and yet, my tummy is in knots. I had the priviledge of witnessing the finalization of my nephew Noah to my brother Bennett and his wife Jennifer about? 4 years ago? Man, there are so many feelings as an onlooker, I'm assuming to be the one it's happening to will be mildly overwhelming. I have shed a few tears that my family cannot be here for this important moment but I know they are aware and excited. We will get to postpone the excitement I would have shared with them till we get to California next week! (19th). I'm grateful to my friend Mari who is going to act as our impromptu photographer and pray we will be able to capture the moments as I see it in my dreams. It seems silly to admit the importance of photography to me but I see life through 1970's, back-sunshined, running through tall wheatfields, glasses. Kinda like a 7-Up commercial or something ;). he he he. Anyway, we are ready for this portion to be over, only to begin the chaos again in October when we re-submit our names in the adoption process. Oh, yes so soon. It took us 2 years to find Evan and make him part of our family. We will be even more pro-active the next time and hopefully another birth mother will see in us what Courtney did and would love Evan to be the sibling to her child. Speaking of October... we will be seeing Courtney in October while Mike goes to Atlanta for a U2 concert with our friend Josh (hopefully Lacey and Linc can come?!). Courtney is very excited to see us and if we find ourselves in Atlanta sooner, we will see her then also. She loves our little family, she is such a fan of us being together and we appreciate the selflessness she showed in allowing us to raise Evan. As Heavenly Father is lending all of his children to us, we take this task very seriously. ;)
So... I will have more pictures posted tomorrow hopefully. Mari will have to get those to me somehow I just realized.. hmm... anyway, wish us luck at our court appearance! ;) whoo hoo!



( i hope you enjoyed the pics of our little stud with his mamma today on mother's day. this is one of my favorite outfits of his so it's how i dressed him. Mike can choose what he wants for father's day... lol, probably a 'striped' outfit... he eh he, right jenalyn? )