HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!!

Happy Mothers Day to all the mommys out there! I am a very lucky woman! I woke up this morning to Dale at the side of our bed waking me up1 he wished me a happy mothers day and then walked me into the kitchen and this is what was waiting on the table to see!!! Dale had made me pancakes and had set up the table so beautifully! Yes.... I was almost in tears! It was sooooo sweet! I have the greatest husband EVER!!!!  Thank you Dale! you are the best! Thank you for this wonderful morning  and I love you!!!! 

When I told Dale I was gonna put this Story up on the blog he just said "No You cant put that on the blog than people will know how ghetto we are!!" I said "Oh Well!!" It is way to cute not to share! We had a couple flies in our kitchen last night and we have yet to invest in a fly swatter so we resort to our dish towels!! (we do wash them before we reuse them!!) Riley thinks its the funniest thing in the world to watch her daddy swat flies like that!! She decided it looked like so much fun that she went to the drawer that has our dish towels in it and got up on the very tip of her tippy toes and got a couple rags out and started swinging away at flies she couldn't see!! She swung around for a few minutes and thought it was the best fun she had ever had!

We have finally reached a milestone! For a while now Dale and i have not been able to take Riley to any restaurant with us!  She would scream and cry and put up a huge fuss until we just gave up and left and took all of our food home with us to eat! We would always leave our date nights frustrated and not in very good spirits! Dale and I both are going to school and he works full time and we hardly would see each other a half hour a day during the week so we decided that saturday nights would be our time to catch up! It was supposed to be a time that we could sit down and relax and have fun!! Well we gave up! For a few months now we have been able to get babysitters and it was very nice! I really enjoyed our alone time!! And boy did we need it! Dont get me wrong we loved spending time with Riley and we did get some family time but we just needed some hubby-wife time!! Well this last saturday we were not able to get a baby sitter but we were determined to still be able to go out so we decided to try date nights with Riley again! And to our wonderful surprise it was sooo much fun! she had never behaved so well at a restaurant!!! It was Red Robin so we knew there would be lots of pictures to distract her but we never knew it would go as well as it did!! This all might seem a little silly to some... but it was an incredible feat for us!! 

Well i finally decided to jump on the blogging bandwagon! i am completely computer illiterate so this was a greater challenge than I assumed it would be!! i am still completely clueless but i am gonna keep trying!!! Well Our family has had a great spring!! Of course in Arizona the spring starts in February and ends to soon!! We took advantage of good weather and one of Dales Very few vacation days that we get to enjoy and took riley to the zoo for the first time!! Her favorite(and Dales favorite also) was the monkey village Riley could have not been more excited to almost be within arms reach of a little monkey!! She was completely fascinated! 

The weather has been so nice the last month we have soaked up every opportunity we have been able to get to go outside and play in the courtyard of our apartment complex!! Riley loves being outside!! she has the best time! There are a lot of kids to play with and she could not be more happy out there! 

And of course all that playing leads to being tired!! Thank heavens!! Riley likes (and i am pretty fond of it myself) to wind down by watching a movie and having a little snack before she takes her nap! I put her in front of the t.v and gave her her snacks and i went into my room to play on the computer for a bit and she came in and went straight to my bed! It took about two minutes and i didn't hear anything from her and i looked around and she was so worn out from her fun day outside that she couldn't stay awake any longer!!!