My First Mother's Day

Emma was extremely excited to see all her favorite people on the same day. 

For Mother's Day this year we celebrated at our house.  We kicked off with balloons, flowers, cards, and presents, donuts, and steamed artichokes with mustard dip (a childhood favorite).  

I can I just have a little nibble of wrapping paper?

We were lucky enough to have both grandmothers to celebrate with.

Sofia, David, and Todd put together a delicious, gourmet, and healthy meal.  The fancy meal started out with grilled steak and scallops on a bed of leeks, followed by asparagus topped with Parmesan cheese, lemon zest and toasted pine nuts, and also a kale salad with an avocado dill yogurt sauce.  Everything was so good!   

Thanks Sofia, David, and Todd!

Here we are sitting down to the tasty feast!  The superb desserts didn't even make it into the pictures, but we were treated to a sticky toffee pudding and a lemon ginger ice box cake too.

And we finally managed to get all the moms into one picture.

I don't get it.  Why does salt come out of a mushroom?

Esteban and Veronica were even able to make it.  

Uncle Esteban told me that I could peel the label off of this magazine. 

Just before we lost all the light we managed to sneak in some good group shots too.  Thanks everyone!  I had a lovely time!