Happy Mother's Day

For Mother's Day this year we kept things pretty simple.  Well not as simple as last year....Michael was smart enough not to hand me a coffee pot again, but we still kept it simple.  Alyssa had begun on Friday with not really feeling well and had missed her practice on Friday as well as her game and team pictures on Saturday morning so we knew that anything we were going to do was not going to be done out in the heat and sun.  We really would have liked to have gone camping for the weekend but that was out of the question and we've decided to save that for our Memorial Day weekend. 

For Mother's Day our family outing was a night at the Galaxy Drive-In Theatre down in Ennis, TX.  With Alyssa feeling up to the trip and knowing that we'd just be sitting watching movies we loaded everyone up and headed to the theatre.  From our house it's about a 35-40 minute drive to the drive-in theatre but it is always well worth it.  Our features for the night were Thor 3D and Rio 3D.  Yep, that's right....two movies and they were in 3D and it cost us only $31 to get everyone in including the $2 fee for the glasses.  Now how awesome is that?!  Both movies were really great and surprisingly kid friendly. It was a great night!

For Sunday we really didn't do too much other than hang around the house and hit a few stores for some much needed stuff.  For Mother's day gifts Alyssa gave me two cards that she'd drawn and written poems for me at school during the previous week:

Michael went to the comic book store and bought me the over sized purse that I'd seen on Saturday when I brought the kids to the free comic book day:

They bought me a frozen mocha frappe and some sushi for dinner. Then for dessert I tried out my king cake idea for Alyssa's birthday:

Like I said, we kept it simple but it was still a good day.  We did a little shopping for Alyssa's birthday and came up with some really great ideas and at the end of the night I helped Michael complete his final term paper and homework for this semester.  Ultimately though, the night did end with poor Alyssa really getting sick and staying up all night vomitting but at least it held off until the day had come to an end.  This is where we were by 6am Monday morning....poor kid:

Ahhh, the life of being a Mommy!