They Say It's Your Birthday! Happy Birthday To Ya!

This is my May-may! She was born on Mother's day two years ago! What an amazing experience it is to bring life into this world on such a special day! It was such a beautiful and sacred experience. I felt such an overwhelming power of the spirit comforting and witnessing to me the wonderful blessing of the calling of MOTHER!

So imagine my disgust with myself when I try to find pictures of May when she was a newborn and I can't find any because I don't have any! Our already crappy camera bit the dust right before she was born and I never got around to getting another one, not even a cheap disposable camera! I really loathe myself for not finding a way to take pictures of her at birth and her first few weeks! They change SO much during those first weeks! The picture above is the earliest I can find and she was about three months there. I shouldn't be so hard on myself. The month she was born I was packing up our house in Vernal and dealing with housing issues in Colorado. We had to be out of our house by the first of June but we had nowhere to stay in Colorado so the kids and I stayed in Kelly and Shawnie Reynold's basement for a couple of weeks until we wore out our welcome. Michael had been staying in a hotel in Glenwood Springs, CO on the weekdays so we decided that the kids and I would just stay with him there. We lived in a motel room for the rest of June and the first part of July. During that time my little May was sick with some mystery virus so we rarely left the room. That is FOUR little energy filled children cooped up in a little room! We had continental breakfast EVERY day! Madse's poop was multi colored because all of the Fruit Loops he ate in the lobby! Mike's company couldn't keep paying for a motel so we found a studio apartment up at Sunlight Mountain Resort and it had a kitchen! No more blasted Fruit Loop and eating out!

This was the view out of our back door! I didn't appreciate it at the time! I was too stressed about having all of us crammed into a studio apartment and waiting on some selfish woman who was unwilling to move out of the house that we had under contract because she was using it as leverage in her divorce settlement. So as a result of all of that stress, the first few months of May's life is a blur! The really pathetic thing about this is that I didn't buy a camera until after her first birthday so we don't even have pictures of her first birthday! Cue more self loathing!

So I wanted to redeem myself this birthday and make May May's 2nd birthday extra special! She wanted a Spongebob Squarepant birthday party. She is SO obsessed! She sings the song and pleads with me to watch it EVERYDAY! We had cake and ice cream and corn dogs for dinner! It was a hit with the kiddos! May opened presents and we played around together until bed time. This weekend we will celebrate with her cousins at Lagoon and with the Nash's on Sunday. I will definitely go overboard on pictures to ease the guilt I have, that I will always have.

Top Ten Reasons I Love My Maymers:

10~ She love to spank bums! She just goes around smacking every one's butt's and laughs!

9~She says "Tank you mom" all the time, even when I finish torturing her when I do her hair. She has these crocodile tears and whimpers "Tank you mom." Melt my heart!

8~She has no fear! Mike does these dreadful stunts with her that make my gut wrench and she giggles!

7~She LOVES off-roading with Michael. We are all getting tossed around the truck and I look back at her and she is clapping her hands and saying "agin, agin!"

6~ She sneaks into Ashley's bed every night!

5~ She loves to be outside! She stands by the front door with some one's shoes that are way to big for her as she pleads "outside, outside..."

4~She climbs into my lap when she is tired or just needs some love and says "Mom, song." and of course I sing to her. It makes me feel needed.

3~She lives to pester Madse. You think it would be the other way around but she gets him so rilded up!

2~ Her kisses take my breathe away...literally! she takes my face into her chubby little baby hands and lays one on me!

1~She keeps me on my toes! She is always doing something funny or naughty but no matter what she does it is guaranteed to make me so glad that I have her!

I hope when she gets older, she doesn't hold it against me that I don't have newborn pictures of her.

Mom, Grandpa Mark, Gram Betta if you have any pictures of May at birth PLEASE send them my way! I might be able to forgive myself if you have pictures!