Thankful.

I have a lot of days when I wake up and realize just how much I have to be thankful for...I am one blessed chicka. I am thankful for every single morning where my baby girl wakes up hollering for me "Moooooommmmmaaaaa" that makes my day. And although I joke about her hollering for her Daddy....I still love hearing that too. I am very thankful that I have become a mother for a number of reasons, but the one that comes to mind other than the obvious one, BROOKE is that it has given me a completely new respect for my own mother. I now know the depth of her feelings for me, and it has brought an already close relationship even closer.

Being a mom myself has made me even more thankful for my mother in law. She is an amazing woman who I call Momm (for my second mom or mom miller, whichever). I never imagined I could bond with someone else's mom the way I have with her. I am thankful for the wonderful job she did raising her son. He is an amazing man, husband, friend and most importantly....father. I am thankful for the wonderful mother's, whether grandmother's, aunts, cousins, neighbors, etc...Brooke has in her life. Of course I am thankful for the men in our life too, I am just focusing on MOM's because of Mother's Day yesterday.

This is the first Mother's Day since I have been a mom that I haven't had one or both mom's here with me to celebrate. BUT, with that said Steven and Brooke made sure to spoil me rotten yesterday and not give me time to think about missing anyone. I could NOT have asked for a better Mother's Day.

Here are several pictures of us just enjoying our evening out in our backyard, just the three of us....in the beautiful weather.

Me and my love.

And now the picture is complete.

I used to avoid the camera at all cost, but have recently decided that even I won't care in 10 years how I feel I looked in the pictures, and that I want photos of ALL of us to help us remember just how blessed we always have been. Us making use of handy dandy timers.

Me and my angel.

One proud papa.

While I sat on my rump relaxing I giggled so much while watching Daddy work with help from Brooke. She was working HARD. Raking up weeds after pulling them.

Steven decided to use the reel mower instead of the normal gas guzzling, smelly one so we could all stay outside....and of course Brooke had to help by mowing right behind him with hers.

I am one lucky lady!