mother's day and a winner!

Before I get to Mother's Day in our next of the woods, I wanted to announce the winner of the Better Crocker/Safeway Bake Sweet Memories giveaway!!!

Chosen via Random.org, which I forgot to capture a screen shot of, the winner is....

Entry #17 which said:

Congratulations Doreen! We've already been in touch and your prize pack is on it's way!

Thanks to everyone who entered and stay tuned for another great giveaway in the coming days!!!

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So on to Mother's Day!

We had a nice Mother's Day over here and I actually got to get in close to 2 hours of nap time in between visits with family so that was great! We started off the day by going out to breakfast at Sweet Tomatoes with my mom, dad, sister, her step-daughter, hubby, Evan and me. I just love breakfast at Sweet Tomatoes. Sunday's are the only days they serve breakfast and the hours are only from 9-12 so we never get to enjoy it since we're at church until after 12:30 most Sundays. We met everyone around 10:45 and the food was so yummy! Their french toast is the best and so is everything else! I received cards from my parents and my sister which were so nice! One funny thing that happened was when I was coming back from getting some more yummy food, I sat down and all of a sudden my sandal broke! You should have seen me trying to walk out to our car! I looked like I was all injured or something! haha!

After breakfast, we headed home and Ben and Evan gave me a couple cute cards and then I took my cozy nap on the sofa. When I woke up, Ben went to Starbucks and picked us up a couple coffees and then we were off to my sister.in.law's house for an early evening BBQ! My sister.in.law did a great job and everything turned out so good! We had hot dogs, salads and even home made ice cream with fresh strawberries! It was so nice. I received a couple more cards from my sister.in.law and mother.in.law and I even got some gorgeous red and white tulips from my sister.in.law. They were just so pretty! Thanks Kathleen!

After dinner, we spent a little bit of time out in the back yard where Evan got to run around and have some fun. We got a couple pictures taken of the family which I was happy about since I didn't really get a family picture for Easter. These were my favorites:







We headed home a little after 9:00 and decided that were going to head to bed early and watch some FRIENDS on the TV before nodding off. I don't know about you, but I LOVE FRIENDS. In my opinion, it's the best show TV has ever seen. I mean, I love it. It always brings a smile to my face and I could just watch every episode like a zillion times and never get tired of them!

Anywho, that was my Mother's Day. Nice and relaxing, just the way I like it!

How about you? What did you all do for your Mother's Day?

PS....completely off topic, but I'm hearing more and more about this Google Reader thingy. I'm so confused, can anyone help me understand how to use this thing? Thanks!