Days 54-56: Happy Mother's Day!

We had an absolutely lovely weekend! Saturday, we took Aunt Shannon to hike Occaneechee. She likes to hike fast, and I like to go slow and look at all of the plants. We decided that next time Nana would come along to take the slow hike with me and the rest of them can do the loop twice.

Sunday, I woke up to breakfast in bed and sweet cards made by the kiddos. We spent most of the morning lounging about, which was lovely. After lunch, though, we decided to go check out a trail near us with the intent of going slow and enjoying a nature walk. It was a really lovely trail, and we found the old car that everyone said you should look for on the hike:

 Evan has become quite the car guy, and he was fascinated:

 The boys did a lot of speculating about all kinds of car things:

 And we managed to grab a good family selfie:

 We came home, and I read on the porch while Brad prepped dinner. We had Mom and Shannon over for burgers and loaded tots, and every bit was amazing. Evan was also very excited to recieve another birthday gift from Nana (they've been trickling in through the mail). This one was wrapped with 11 kinds of paper:

It was a really lovely, quiet Mother's Day with my people, which was lovely, and now we are ready for the next week:

I start teaching my first summer course this morning, so here we go!