Happy *belated* Mother's Day!

Hope all the mum's out there had a great Mother's Day like I did! We went to Lake Cowichan to see Mike's parents and it was such a nice visit. 4 days felt like over a week and was so great to kick back and relax. Ben was an awesome little guy while travelling and he slept all night every night we were there.

I got spoiled, too!! Mike gave me a beautiful white gold locket with a little picture of my Ben Ben in it, and Mike's parents got me a hilarious book (The Toddler's Owner Manual!) and a muchly needed new DustBuster! Yay! Now I can vacuum up all those dropped cheerios! Travis (brother-in-law) was able to come over for a visit from Victoria on Friday.. don't get to see him much so it was nice that he made it. His g/f Natalie was unable to come over because of work but we did get to see her on Monday on our way home! Trav gave me a beautiful little Willow Tree "Angel of Kindness" figurine and Mike a "New Dad" figurine. We have about four from this collection now. They are nice.

The shirt Ben is wearing in the top pic is from my Dad and stepmom Lena :)

It was a hard weekend, though. Thinking of my mum the whole time of course. Every year we would pick her lilacs and I gave her a card wrote "Happy Monster Day!" in it. I apparently said it when I was 2 :) This Monday marks the one year anniversary of her death. Going to be a tough day.. Can't believe it has been a year already. And what a year it has been. Miss you Mum.