Mother’s Day Weekend

…I lost the bet! The hubby was so sweet and treated me like a Queen all weekend. Maybe he does read the blog? Are you really there babe? This could be fun 🙂

My weekend consisted of a 5 mile run ALONE (just me and my girl Beyonce on Pandora!), a long-over due haircut (4 inches off and I feel like a new woman), a four course dinner (including a cookie skillet ice cream heavenly dessert), some serious retail therapy, and a nice Sunday morning church service. Sound perfect? It was 🙂

Although the gifts and flowers and desserts (ya’ll we are talking red velvet macaroons and cupcakes!) were awesome…the best gifts are below. Becoming a mommy is so amazing, but boy does it bring with it lots of emotion and insecurities. Most of all, your being morphs into a baby carrying machine over a short nine months and wow that can really throw some things out of whack. I admit that it’s been hard to love how I look in the mirror and things are going back a bit slower than I had planned. When we go out I usually do my makeup in the car while the hubby drives, and my hair is never “poofed” and pretty anymore. {{For those of you who know me this is very shocking…no?}} I am always last and that’s OKAY…but it kinda wears on you. I’ve found myself not wanting to be in photos anymore or immediately deleting them when I saw the horror that are my under eye bags! This is sad. I want my girl to have memories of us together during this special time. I want her to know that we lay on the blanket outside on warm days. That we read stories before nap time. That she always giggles when I make her fly in the air. I want her to see how much I adore her. That all being said, I put vanity aside and asked my sweet husband to peel himself away from the Players Championship yesterday and take some quick pictures of my sweet baby and me. That’s what I wanted for Mother’s Day. After looking at me like I was cray….he gave in. He was so patient and quite the student of the camera…and did a great job! Even though my makeup is from around 7am, my hair is matted with drool AND spit-up, my under-eye circles are out of control, and you can definitely see the muffin top if you look close…I love these. I figure that twenty years from now I will look back and think that I looked great. Remember that Spring Break in college when you thought that you were :::SO fat::: and now would kill for that body back? Yeah, I’m hoping that’s what will happen here. Either way, I will absolutely treasure these forever.

This makes my heart want to come out of my chest. She loves her tongue. She’s fascinated with it 🙂

So happy that we finally got her eyes in the sunlight…those baby blues melt me to my core!

Did you take photos with your babies yesterday? I encourage you to…you’ll never get these little moments back. And after all, what photos will they use for the wedding slideshow? Haha

I hope that you all had a fabulous Mother’s Day. Cheers to sleepless nights and better-than-you-could-have-dreamed-of days! XOXO