Mother's Day!

My mother's day greeted me with breakfast in bed and an enormous bunch of wildflowers from our yard. Lovely. At church we had a good service and the boys presented me with a rose.

Afterwards we went hunting for a park that had parking spaces available to have our traditional mother's day lunch picnic. This one had a twist. Stephen took the menu under his brilliant little chef's hat and made a 5 course wonder. He took a poll on what I felt like eating since the new baby has been pretty picky, and ruled out all meat, weird combinations, garlic, mixing food groups, and eggplant. When I look at that list I come up with a menu of cereal and ice cream. When he looked at that list he came up with this - (not pictured is whole grain chips and guacamole)

Fresh tomato salad (with not too much zing), toasted demi loaf lightly spread with olive oil topped with herb-flavored goat's cheese, smoked salmon, and a perfect curl of lemon zest.

Focaccia bread with argula, marinated tomato, and fresh, fresh, fresh mozzarella. 

Carob pudding with fresh fruit

and this amazing zingy citrus drink that had a lot of lemons and oranges floating in it. 

Needless to say, we were impressed, stuffed, and baby loved it. Thanks Stephen :)

The little boys tried to sleep through lunch and somehow managed to wake up just in time for dessert being served. That's talent.

We watched this bug for a while. Jack probably named it. I forget.

Jon introduced London to tree climbing. 

And Jack joined him to give me a token cheesy grin.

Add this to our list of classic family picture flops that I love.

Aren't they the prettiest flowers you have ever seen?

We left from the picnic to go to Wamego to spend a couple of days with some good friends. That deserves a whole post of its own. More to come!

Happy Mother's Day!