where have i been?

you can call off the search, i am alright and i am back to blogging. we have been doing alot of swimming lately. the pool is finally just right. and on a hot day, it's heaven.
so what have we been up to during this blog break? well, charlie and i built a planter in our backyard. ok, charlie built it, i was just manual labor. we unloaded a billion bricks and had to carry them one by one into our backyard. each brick was really heavy. they were the big ones. but i think we did a great job. we were so proud of ourselves, that the next weekend we made another one by the pool pump.

mothers day was great. i got to sleep in and charlie made me french toast. it was delicious and a very good sugar rush. we spent the afternoon in the pool and went to chipotle for dinner. we ran by charlie's parents house to drop off some mothers day gifts.

my sister and i are doing mothers day at our mom's house tomorrow. so i can't tell you what we are doing, since mom is reading this. but i wanted to say that i have an incredible mom. she stayed home with kim and i until i went to school. she was a teacher and worked the same hours we were out of the house. i know that my parents made many sacrifices for my sister and i, and now that i am a mom, i appreciate those so much more now than i ever could have. i am the mom i am because of my mom. i always heard "i love you" from my parents when i was little. and i thought that i knew what all of that phrase meant. but i understand so much more what those 3 little words mean now.

so mom, i love you. and i am so glad that i got to have you as my mom.

jill b