Finally, Mother's Day…Nate made an AMAZING brunch which we enjoyed outside, the boys gave me some wonderful gifts (new cooley flip flops, great lotion to combat the crazy hand washing we do, and Godiva!), Audrey had a great morning, and I got to share all of this with my mama!  She got Godiva too!  It was her last day here for awhile as she went back to work and my dad is taking the boys back to SA on Friday (she'll return for the last week of May).  Can you even believe how fortunate we are to have them in our life?  They've really been AMAZING and we are beyond thankful for their help; getting to spend so much time with Audrey and not worry about the boys daily stuff has really made a difference. 

It was a good thing it was mom's last day here though as the afternoon brought us some interesting visitors whom she would not have been excited about….

Here was our afternoon--we leave the hospital thinking the surgeon isn't going to get in to do her central line only to get a phone call as we are a minute from home that he's ready to get started.  We panic not wanting our daughter to have a procedure without us there but decide to get home, let me pump and then head back.  The boys and Papa are swimming when we get there so I go to pump and Nate hangs out with them.  I'm nearly finished' when I hear, "Bob, big snake, Bob, oh man, get over here"  Yes, that's right, a HUGE snake is by the pool equipment and upon further inspection, it's TWO huge snakes, apparently a mating couple!  I'm running around trying to find a number for animal control, get my 2 neighbors over and finally animal control who removes them without incident.  In the mean time, I've picked up Jason wrong and have terrible abdominal pain which freaks us out enough to call my doc about it, all the while realizing that Audrey's procedure is probably over and we haven't heard about it yet, UGH!!  Obviously, I turned out to be fine, Audrey's procedure went fine, although it was the start of her desat, and the snakes were relocated, but man, WAY TOO much drama!!  And don't forget how the weekend started, with Nate's wrist incident; he's much better now, didn't even go to the orthopedic doc. 

How could we top that you ask?  Well for starters, Audrey is home now and healthy and while that trumps just about everything, we still had to have a little drama on Mother's Day, it just wouldn't be the Millers without it, right?!  Before I get to that though I do want to mention how much we miss sharing our day with Penny, she would have gotten the biggest kick out of the craziness that is our life.  It's our first Mother's Day without her and we missed her a lot today.  We miss her everyday.  I'm crying now so I'm going to move on to our little fiasco this morning....

We went to Taco Diner for breakfast at The Shops of Legacy and then for a walk around lake (one of our favorite, regular activities), Audrey sitting proudly in my gift—a new jogging stroller.  We stop to look at the fish on the side with the steps going into the water.  I park AJ while the boys and I walk closer the water, I don’t put the brake on as Nate had told me to about five times already.  2 seconds later, Audrey and the new stroller are careening down the steps into the lake and I dive after falling completely into the water while the stroller barely gets in over the wheels.  Audrey gets wet only from the splash of her mother falling in.  Nate pulls the stroller back and I climb out sopping wet with my ankle cut, bruised and throbbing.  Audrey is totally fine but now upset from the commotion and splash.  Ethan says, “that would have totally won on America’s Funniest Home Videos, I wish we had the camera”.  My husband goes into a “I told you so” (about the brake) and this wonderful woman comes over to say she saw the whole thing, am I okay, what a wonderful testament to a mother’s love (trying to rescue my baby), and Happy Mother’s Day.  NICE.  The FAR walk back to the parking garage was wonderful as was my smart-ass husband complaining the whole way home that his foot was wet.  Ugh!  Nate tried to get me to reinact my part for the camera, but sorry, I refused!  He says his version may be his reentry into the blogging world, I'm hoping not but will let you know if he breaks his blogging silence.

I hope everyone had a wonderful, dry, calm Mother's Day!  I'm working still on sharing more about Audrey's amazing birthday party but I did at least get the pics up.  Also, Gunther had baby RC on Audrey's birthday, so welcome dear one!  I got to see him this weekend and oh!  what a perfect gift he is!  I also had a girls' night with my friend Amy AND a hotel stay BY MYSELF (slept until 9AM!!!, bliss!)  It was a banner Mother's Day weekend, dispite my dive today. OH yeah, I finally heard our radio ad on the radio too! It was very goosebumpy for me.  My friend Shawn, who is WAY more saavy than I, created a way for y'all to hear it too, check it out !

I think I have the final for the billboards and buses too, but I'm going to wait until I know for sure that it's final.

Lots o love,

Jenn