Mother's Day

I was spoiled rotten this year for Mother's Day!  I woke up to a delicious breakfast of all of my favorite things (bacon included!) and Cole didn't even have to leave early for church!  That was the biggest treat of them all!  He was able to help me get the kids ready for church, and I was reminded just how much easier things are with 2 adults!  :) 

Oh yeah...delicious breakfast!

This is me being TOTALLY surprised by the breakfast! :)

     I love being a mother.  I have had some rough times for the past little while as a mother, but I am so grateful for this wonderful chance to be entrusted with 4 of Heavenly Father's precious children.  What a sobering, humbling responsibility!  I love them.  They are SO hard sometimes, and naughty sometimes too, but I love them more than anything in this whole world.  I am constantly reminded about how special they are, and what wonderful blessings they are to me.  Each of their personalities is so different, and it is so much fun getting to know them all a little bit better each day.  I love their energy, their zest for life, their happiness, their sadness, their tears, their troubles, their sorrows and pains, their eagerness to learn- I love it all!  Being a mother is most often a very thankless job- as most mothers know- but it is the times when you get an extra snuggle, an unsolicited kiss/hug, a praise, some extra excitement, etc. that I remember how truly blessed that I am, and that every hard second, every easy second for that matter!- is completely worth it.  I love my children, and am so grateful to have them in my life.  I also love my sweetheart for making me a mother as well!  Thanks Guys ! I LOVE mother's day!  I didnt' even have to do the dishes!   I really don't ever anyways, because Cole is so good to me- but it was nice to know it was for a reason today. :)  Happy Mother's Day!

Bry's gettin married in the Mornin....!

My little brother Bryson got married on the 10th of May, and we were able to head to Utah to join in on the festivities!  It was SUCH a blast!  One of the best parts about the whole weekend was that my sweet mother was able to travel here all the way from Germany to join us for 2 weeks for all of the celebrations ! YEAH!  She was in major missionary mode, and had a TON going on but it was really great to be with her.  We really missed my Dad too.  But we know that he is where he needs to be there in Germany with those awesome missionaries! We just can't wait to see him when we go to Germany!
     The festivities were all WONDERFUL and we are so happy for Bry and Meg!  WE LOVE MEG and are so grateful that she found Bryson and that they are a family now!  She is absolutely perfect for him, and they are the cutest couple ever.  She is amazing, and can do, and DOES just about everything!  She is so awesome.  So we are SO grateful to be expanding our family so rapidly!  Yahoo for weddings! 

These two are TROUBLE!  Yikes!

We got to introduce Stockton to my Grandma and Grandpa Miles and it was so fun!  We were able to bring dinner over to them, and it was so fun to spend some time with them.

My Grandpa isn't doing very good, healthwise.  It was the FASTEST turnaround I have ever seen!  We think that he had some sort of Mini-Stroke or something, and it has really affected him.  Not so fun.  So it was really nice to be able to spend a little bit of time with them.  I sure do love them, and so do my children!

We fit a whole bunch of family parties in while we were in Utah.  We had the Nelson Family birthday party for May and we snapped this beauty of the 4 generations! 

My Mom and Dad got the kids these DARLING outfits from Germany for the wedding dinner and the kids LOVED them!  The dirndles (for the girls) are from Germany and the shirts (for the boys) are from Austria.  This was actually a great shot of all 8 grandkids!

The happy couple!  SO CUTE!

My cute mom- by herself at wedding dinner! 

Here's the missing missionaries! 

The little brother even had a tie to wear!  He looked so cute!

These 2 are quite the buddies!

Meg lost a flower out of her bouquet and so kindly gave it to Morgan and she promptly tore out all of the petals, threw them on the ground, and started jumping on them ! It was hilarious.

Oh boy....these two are trouble as well!  Total salt and pepper!  So cute.

And So he shall be named...

While we were in Utah for my brother Bryson's wedding, we were able to bless our cutest baby boy ever!  It was so wonderful for my mom to be able to be there all the way from Germany!  She really timed it right coming this weekend!  Stockton was blessed, Mylie Jane was baptized, Tyler received his Masters and Bry got married!  Sheesh!  Nice mom!  It was also REALLY nice to have all of our family there.  All of Coles family was able to attend, except for Spencer and Laura, and they were sorely missed.  And all of my family was there as well- so it was really great.  Cole gave a marvelous blessing, and we are SO happy/excited/glad/overwhelmed/blessed to have Stockton in our family!  We love him!

Meeting Aunt Erica for the first time!

Anxiously waiting for the cookies.  Gimmie...gimmie!

Camry, Erica, Jaiden and Jeff

Drew and Lincoln- this is what they did during the whole blessing.  Wrestled.

Carson and Zach Skinner

Elisa, Kailey, Karden, Kelsey and Blake. 

Mike, Tara and Bode Beckstead

Mandi, Libby, Dakota and Cheyenne

LOVE this picture!!!

Grandma and Grandpa getting some good snuggles in!

While we were there, we got a great shot of all the Smith grandkids! 

Pre-Blessing bath time with Grandma B!

I Love this blue crocheted blanket that my Grandma Miles made.  I've used it for all of my boys.  Such a wonderful keepsake!

Check out the brother's face!  Cutest ever!

So happy to be all blessed!

Welcome to the world baby Stockton!

Last Soccer Games!

Lincoln had one of his last soccer games and we took TONS of pictures!  Link has really come into his own in soccer this year!  He absolutely LOVES it- even if he does run around the field aimlessly sometimes.  :)  We sure do love to watch the little dude!  it's fun to see them really get after the ball, and want to score and stuff!  He has a really fun little team, and they have fun together- which makes for a really fun time had by all!

The team getting a pep talk by "Coach" Ben.  The boys LOVE him! 

Love the tongue action...he gets it from his mama!

BACK: Coach Ben
Middle: Noah, Lincoln, Felix, Edan, Owen Metz
Front: Eli, John, Matt, Will Perkins, Will Beasley, Brannon

So silly!  These boys really had SO much fun together!  Bring on the soccer games ! We love going to them!

Cutest little soccer fan!