Food, Flowers, Fancy Footwork, Family, Friends….. Fabulous!

Mother’s Day is fairly quiet because Ranchman John had mandatory OT today. But there was early celebrating on Friday instead. First my dear friend, Linda Sue, who I’ve been lucky enough to call my friend now for over 17 years, invited me over for a delicious breakfast of eggs, fried potatoes, sausage, OJ and coffee. (This pic was taken during a recent family dinner we had been invited to at her house)

As you will soon see, our lives have been closely intertwined throughout the years. We became friends while working for Mesa Airlines, driving baggage carts, fueling aircraft, and directing commuter airplanes onto the runway. We had so much fun and did some cool stuff, like our snowmobile/cross-country ski trip in Red River, NM on the Enchanted Circle. When I became prego with my twinlings, we lost touch for a couple years. But then, just two years after my twinlings were born, I found out that Linda Sue was prego with twins, too! She gave birth to beautiful twin girls, while I have twin boys. We sometimes joke about how funny it would be if our two sets of twins got married one day and had a double wedding.

Both of our sets of twins play the guitar, and on our recent family dinner night, her talented girls serenaded us with “Stairway to Heaven” both on acoustic and electric.

Afterwards all of the twins went outside to play some ball.

While the adults enjoyed some comfortable adult conversation.

And Jenna ate cheese.

Lots and lots of cheese. I am not kidding. I had to cut her off. My girl is addicted to cheese.

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Anyway, after our delicious breakfast on Friday (which I sadly took no pictures of), I left my dear friend’s lovely home, which is only about 6 miles from my home…which incidentally makes us neighbors per rural mountain standards. On the way I drove past many interesting things…and took lots of pictures, which I promise to share with you over the next few days.

 

And on the way to my Physical Therapy, I even made a new friend.

  

I think I even fell in love a little bit.

I did better than I thought I would during Physical Therapy. I was able to do most of my exercises without any pain. But I still can’t bear all of my weight on that left leg without stabbing pain on the outer left side of my knee. That knee also swells up when I’m up on it for too long. So frustrating not knowing what is actually going on in there. Well at least I have something to cheer me up just a little bit.

 

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When I arrived back home my family surprised me with a bunch of goodies for Mother’s Day.

My parents sent me chocolate!

 

My kidlet’s did, too!

The kidlets also gave me a card that will keep me smiling for a very long time.

And Ranchman John gave me roses in my favorite coral color.

Then, because it was a sunny 85 degrees, Ranchman John decided to cook us up the first BBQ of the season.

He even provided the entertainment!

 

I would also like to thank everyone for all of the e-mail and Facebook Mother's Day wishes today. And a special thank you to Rachel of Wilmoth Farms for the funny video she made for me.

And I hope all of you Moms, whether of human children or critter kids, had a very special day that brought you mountains of smiles and happiness!

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