Cold (but Beautiful!) May

The weather here has continued to be schizophrenic.  We had several days in April that were quite hot, but then it would dip back down to being cold again.  So far in May, we've had warm days and cool days, but no hot days.  It's weird, honestly.  It was 43℉ when I woke up this morning!  43℉!!!  But I probably shouldn't complain, because I'm sure it will be plenty hot soon.  But it is strange.

Life continues barreling onward.  Last week for FiA they had us doing this:

That's me in the middle!

I didn't actually know I could do this until I was doing it.  Go me!  

I spent a few hours at another wedding on Saturday.  This time the seating chart looked like this:

I didn't have to put this together (thank goodness!) although I did hot-glue the "thankful for you" lettering at the top!  Once it was done, Adam and I set it up outside and he fixed all the leftover flowers to the top and bottom and it looked so lovely!

I was properly spoiled on Mother's Day!  Craig brought me breakfast in bed the second I was out of the shower: 

And then at church, Craig had put Adam in charge of getting chocolates for the women, and Br. Steed had asked Adam to get flowers, so we were shown a lot of love!  Adam pulled it all off beautifully by getting us gorgeous roses and Gearhart's chocolates  which were amazing.  (It may have helped that I'd chosen which chocolates we got-- malted milk hazelnut and brown butter caramel, both of which were my absolute favorites!)  And then Adam gave me the leftovers.  YES.  (The best of all this was when we were pulling into the parking lot and Craig immediately spotted Adam getting all the roses out of the back of his car and exclaimed, "I LOVE having a wedding planner in the ward!"  So true, but I've known that ever since he did all the Christmas decorations like it was the easiest thing in the world for the ward party three years ago!  The men are just now catching on to how useful a wedding planner can be to have around!)

My other favorite part of the day may have been when Camille put on her unicorn robe and declared, "I'll be your Mother's Day Unicorn!" as though that's a thing?  She's so funny!

We had a hard time getting her to smile for this.  In the other shots, she has cRaZy EyEs!!!

😂😂😂

Also, that super cute dress was a lovely and unexpected gift from my mother-in-law!  You have such excellent taste, Donna!

I also napped all afternoon (which was a HUGE mistake, because then I couldn't sleep AT ALL that night) and let Craig make dinner-- cornbread salad, which I love!-- so it was just an overall great day.  Yay for being spoiled!

And then this week on Tuesday, Adam and I went kayaking again!  This time we went to Ragged Mountain (where I first tried out my little Hiking Club and we accidentally hiked nearly 8 miles!) and enjoyed perfect weather with lots of turtles and even one bald eagle!

This little rocky nook was so shady and peaceful!

And today I got my second vaccine!  I was very fortunate, because I managed to find (after MUCH searching) a pharmacy in town where I could get it, rather than having to drive down to Lynchburg again.  I didn't particularly mind the drive at the time, but now with the gas shortage happening (?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?), I'm really relieved not to drive an extra 2.5 hours!  My arm is already quite sore, but I'm hoping that will be the worst of it.  Maybe?  But I also canceled all my normal Friday morning activities just in case.  I figured, at 5am, I wouldn't be able to tell if I was actually sick, or just dizzy and tired like normal, so why risk it?

Instead, the plan for tomorrow is to stay in bed all day no matter how I'm feeling!  Take that, Covid!