Happy Mother's Day!

I love being a mother!!!

 

I have the most wonderful children who were willing to shovel cow poop out of back of the truck onto the garden!

 

I have a daughter who is growing faster than I can believe and getting more beautiful every day.  Russ informed me yesterday that it won't be too long and I'll have a tween....YIKES!

 

I have an adorable son who dumped an entire bottle of shampoo and an entire bottle of conditioner into the bath and announced, "Look mommy, I'm squeaky clean!!"

 I have a gorgeous daughter who took advantage of the bath filled with soap and enjoyed a long bubble bath!  She was also squeaky clean:)

 

 I have a silly son that sat in the bath and shook the water in the bottle to make more bubbles until he had enough bubbles to cover his whole body.  He called me into the bathroom to "take a picture of this, mom."  I stepped through the door and he said "I'm bubble man!"  He was standing up, flexing his muscles, with his body completely covered in bubbles.  Unfortunately, he had to sit down in order to have a picture taken.  (It was the funniest thing to me that he thought he was modest enough for a picture because he had bubbles "on"!)

 I have the most handsome husband even when he is tired and covered in poop.  I love that he is willing to work hard all day to complete something that I want done, even when he has other things he would rather be doing!

I have been blessed with this really amazing family and we are sealed together for eternity.  And last weekend, as Russ and I attended the Billings Temple, we listened to the temple president as he said, "Can you imagine the feeling of a mother who has been waiting for years and years to have her children sealed to her, and today they have become hers forever through the sealing ordinance?"

 

Yes!  Yes, I can imagine what a mother feels as she waits to have her children sealed to her.  And I can hardly wait to experience the feeling of having all of my children sealed to me forever!

We are one step closer to bringing our children home.  Their passports have been completed!! (the best news all week)  Two more things to be completed, medicals and a visa interview.  We are praying that they will pass both and before too long we will have a visa print date...........then we will buy our tickets:)