What we did on M Day

Well, I had a great Mother's Day weekend :) I decided that it's definitely a weekend long thing. ;) Friday at 5, my work-a-holic hubby came up from working downstairs and asked what I wanted for dinner. We ended up at our favorite restaurant, Tepanyaki, a Japanese steakhouse and sushi bar. Ainsley was quite enthralled with our chef, and spent the whole time watching him intently. After a tasty dinner, we walked across the way to Coldstone and indulged in some of my favorite high calorie frozen cow's milk. :)

Here's some pictures of us walking around after dinner.
It was cold, and I'd forgotten a baby hat, so we improvised. We kept cracking up at how our little pink Eskimo looked all bundled up.


Saturday mornings at our house mean breakfast out, it's my favorite time of week. It was especially nice this Saturday because Ainsley let me sleep in! However, this week I let Tom off the hook since I was still pretty full from our tasty dinner the night before, so instead we had an early at this yummy sandwich place called Granato's. It started as an Italian foods importer, so all the ingredients are amazing. And the best part of this sandwich place, is it's location. The newest branch is very luckily placed in Tai Pan! For those of you not in Utah, Tai Pan is a great wholesale home decor warehouse, where you can get amazingly cute stuff for generally reasonable prices. My one real wish for mother's day was for Tom to walk around stores with me, that he would normally refuse to enter. :) So we spent the first part of the day walking around Tai Pan, we were then going to head to Ikea, when we both realized it was nap time for our little Ains. Dang Responsibility. So we headed back home, put Ains down, then her mama, hehe. I love naps,.. sigh.. silly kids who fight them so hard.. they will definitely change their minds when they get older. Well, after she woke up, Tom talked me into going for a drive, and we walked around a cute neighborhood and had a lot of fun. Next stop, Costco! We picked out stuff for dinner the next day, and wandered a little bit. At this point Ains was being pretty fussy, and we realized she must be so sick of being drug all over town, stuck in car seats, and strollers and car seats, and that it was very close to her bed time by now. I was kind of sad, because I really wanted to go to Ikea with Tom, it was the probably the place I'd wanted to go to the most. Kirty had offered to watch Ainsley earlier in the week, so we decided to try her, and silly lady jumped at the chance. So we dropped her off, and ran off, free of all responsibility to Ikea. The pictures below are proof of some of the silliness we got into.

After Ikea, we decided to watch a movie at home, instead of going to a theater, we were pretty tired, having walked all over the place all day. I figured we should go pick up the babes before we got anymore tired, so I called up Kirty to tell her I was on my way.. and then she proceeded to team up with Tom.. and they both talked me into leaving Ains there over night, since we were planning on going over there in the morning anyway. I haven't left her overnight.. really, ever. I went to New York when she was 2 months old, and left her with Tom and my mom. And since then she's never been away from me for the night. It was really hard to let go, and trust that she'd be okay. But she was fine. Kirty said she woke up at 7, along with her 2 cute kids and she fed her a banana, and she played with her kids just fine. She even went back to bed from 8-9, and Ainsley played with Hallee while Dan fixed breakfast for everyone. We had planned to go to church with them since they have 11am chuch, and I wanted to sleep in on mother's day :)
but I woke up at 7am as well, and had Tom on the road by 9:00. She was still playing happily when we got there.

After church, Kirty and I sequestered ourselves up in her bedroom with all our crafty supplies, and scrapbooked and watched movies all day. The guys brought up pizza for lunch, and totally impressed us with their cooking skills, fixing bbq salmon, steak and grilled pineapple for us for dinner, and watched the kids the whole time! We finally headed back home around 10pm. It was a really nice day. Thanks Tom! You are the best husband and father, thanks for making my first mother's day so special. :)

(be sure to check out Tom's sweet socks)