Dawson's First Mother's Day

We got up, ate breakfast and left for church early today.  Tony had been asked to help teach Meighan's Sunday School class.  Last year they started asking the dads to teach the Sunday School classes on Mother's Day to give the mom teachers a break.  Meighan's class was also singing at the beginning of the service so that made me decide to put Dawson in the nursery for the morning.  That way I could video the kids singing without having to watch him.  That worked out wonderfully!  After the kids sang and the teachers helped the dads take the kids back to class, I went and sat by myself for the service.  Kinda nice not having to watch a toddler during church!

Afterwards, I picked him up and Tony and Meighan were done, too.  The nursery people had made little handprint picture frames and so I have my first handprint of Dawson's!  Meighan's class colored papers to put inside mugs.

We got home about 11:50 from church and started getting ready for our families to come up for a cookout/potluck/picnic.  Everyone was to bring whatever meat they wanted to grill and then a dish to share.  Oh, my gosh!  We had SOOO much food!  It was kind of nice that Dawson fell asleep on the way home from church so he slept while we got everything ready.  When it was time to eat I got him up and changed him into something for playing in.  He sat on my lap and ate part of a cheeseburger patty, potato casserole, baked beans, strawberries and raspberry cake.  He also had a few bites of watermelon.  Geesh, this kid can eat!  There was also potato salad, carmelized onions, broccoli salad, potato chips.  We supplied limeade, pink lemonade, tea and water to drink.  If anyone went away hungry from this, they weren't hungry in the first place!

After we cleaned up, we gave Mother's Day cards/gifts.  I had printed out 3 different poses of the pictures that we had our friend take a couple weeks ago and put them in frames.  I gave our mom's the choice of which one they wanted.  If they chose the same one, I'd print another one.

They ended up choosing the same one so I went in and printed another one!

So after everyone left, I wanted to get a picture of me and my TWO kids!  It didn't go so well...

So, after everyone had naps and Dawson was obviously in a better mood, we tried again...

This is the only one that was in focus.  (I look kinda tired.)

Otherwise, this would have been the best one.