Lots of reasons to celebrate

Not only was today Mother's Day,

but is was also a good day to celebrate Mom's birthday

(it's actually Tuesday).

Aunt Mandy also got her Master's this weekend.

But the biggest reason to celebrate?

Grandpa Mike got a new TRACTOR!!!

I climbed right up...

but Weston,

despite his LOVE of tractors,

was a little overwhelmed at seeing one up close

Grandpa gave me a quick tutorial of all the levers and gears

and before you know it,

I was dumping loads like a pro!

Can you see my grin?

It was pretty awesome.

After a while,

Wes got brave enough to load the bucket

but not brave enough to leave Dad's arms when we started to move again

We drove up and down the yard

put the bucket up and down

Weston stayed as protected as possible

Finally it was time to drive it back to the barn

Weston stayed in the house...

Then we ventured over to Grandma and Grandpa's neighbor's house.

She has all sorts of fun stuff to play with

Grandpa directed our cleaning of the house

Dad tried out the rope swing

Mom, Mandy and I balanced the teeter toter

And Grandma stopped in at our restaurant,

the Super Fun Waffle House,

for some double chocolate chip pancakes and syrup.

It was really fun

Then it was time for some REAL

double chocolate chips...

DESSERT!

We sang Happy Birthday to Mom

and of course helped blow out the candles

A couple of rounds on the Micro Machines train

with Aunt Mandy,

and the night was complete

Family time is fun!