Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!

Leading up to Mother's Day, Eliana drew a card for Nai-Nai, Elvin's mom.  She wanted to include a picture of herself and the kids, so asked Elvin to print out pictures on our color printer.  We had a photo of the girls with Nai-Nai and a separate photo of Nai-Nai with Gabriel.  Eliana cut out Gabriel from one photo and pasted it onto the other.  So you can see in the picture below that Gabriel is the size of a toy teddy bear compared to her sisters.

 Here is the other side of the card.  A purple castle.

On the day before Mother's Day, Elvin took the kids out to buy a Mother's Day gift.  The lamp on the Emily's nightstand was broken so the girls picked out a new one.  On the morning of, the girls were downstairs and when Emily came down, the put the gift on the ground and got in front of them to "cover it up" so that it'd be a surprise for Emily.

 And then on Eliana's command, they yelled "Surprise!"

 Emily read through the card, signed by each of the three kids.

 Emily is now the proud owner of a new lamp!  The girls did a great job in picking one out!

 After that, we ate breakfast and had bacon, which is one of Emily's favorites.  Gabriel likes it, too.

 In the evening, Emily's family came over for dinner.  The kids played with their cousins.

After dinner, Grandma opened the cards the kids made for her.

And soon it was time for folks to leave.  But not before a family picture with Charles (Emily's brother) and his family, with the addition of two of our kids!  (For some reason, Gabriel will only let pictures be taken of him if they are candid shots.  He does NOT like posing for pictures and that is why he is squirming his way out of his cousin Millie's arms.)  

Hope you had a good Mother's Day too!