My 1st Mommy's Day

My very first Mother's Day! What a blessing to be Emma's mommy! I have loved every moment of it!
She had a new white & yellow dress to wear and Mommy had a bit of yellow in her skirt. Daddy is not in any of these pictures, but he had yellow on his tie.

Three generations. Mom looks beautiful here! I had just been outside taking a bazillion pictures and you can tell by my shiny face! Emma was getting extremely tired and hungry, so a bit grumpy.

Somehow this is out of order, but this is Martin's pasta salad. The guys were in charge of Mother's Day lunch. From cooking, decorating, setting the table, providing dessert, clearing away... They did a fantastic job!

Grandpa & Grandma Delamarter waiting for dinner.

Here you can see the table. They used Mom's pastel table cloth and Dad had bought clear plastic plates and clear plastic square glasses. He also got pink napkins and sage green plastic ware. He did so good! He had the table set when we got there, so Martin just had to add his touches, as he was in charge of decorating the table.

Here are the napkin rings he made. Paper daisies (made with my Cricut) attached to a pastel ribbon "ring".

He also made a paper daisy centerpiece, two actually. One for each end of the table. They have 2 daisies on each stem, with a center dot on each side so you can enjoy it from either side. He did a great job!

You can see the table, the centerpieces, most of the guests (not Aunt Ruth or Grandma) and the food! They grilled chicken breast (Bob Cantrell , you did superb! So yummy!) and steak (yummo Dad!!), grilled Parmesan Corn on the cob (Martin), Baked Potatoes w/ sour cream and a bacon bits & chive topping (Robert), Pasta Salad (Martin), followed by an awesome cake.

Mom with the card I made for her. She had worked the night before and had to work again that night, so she got up for lunch, ate, opened her cards/gifts, passed hers out and went to bed with no dessert!

Here is the divine cake. Courtesy of Publix, but it was really good! The chocolate leaves on the top were a hit! It was moist and quite tasty, without being overly rich.

Aunt Ruth did the honors. Notice the ruby glass serving utensil on the table. It was my Granny's, who passed away quite a few years ago. There were 3 pcs. left after serving everyone. So, we saved one for Mom and somehow the other 2 quickly found plates to land on... a tall cowboy was coerced :) into one and Grandpa & Martin shared the other.

Now we are on to playing! With Emma beginning to walk, this makes "playing" much more interesting for both cousins. They had a good time both before nap and after.

Some more of them playing...

Here we are after naptime. Papaw had let them each have a balloon and they had a ball!

Emma had never played with one, so this was totally new! She quickly learned how to beat it like a punch ball and was just going to town!! She played with it almost all the way home! And has still played with it today.