Mother's Day and Liz Bartlow's Visit!

This year was my first ever Mother's Day! (well, last year I was preggo but didn't know it yet) Anyway, to make it even better a friend of mine was able to come visit that weekend! Liz Bartlow had some work at the hospital in Roswell so she flew into Albuquerque, stayed with us a couple days, drove down for work, drove back, stayed one more night, then flew back home. It was FABULOUS to have a friend here to hang out with, take walks with, and talk to! I was literally hoarse for days because we talked so much *smile*

Liz, you're an awesome friend! Thanks for encouraging me and sharing all that God is doing in your life! Love ya girl. Come back ANY time!

Cute giggles

As you can see, Avery loved having a new friend around the house!

"And see how I can suck on my fist now....yeah, I'm pretty grown up."

Right: Hanging out on the floor and playing with the babies. She was AWESOME with them! They LOVED her! Right: Liz reading Aksil a story. He absolutely loves reading books! 

For some reason (I forget why! Probably just messing around) Mark put Ax in the carseat and propped Avery up to watch. So cute! They just kinda stared at each other like "hey, who are you?"

Liz snapped a Mother's Day family photo for us! (I forgot to get one that morning when we were all dressed up for church, so this is before Mark and I went out on our date that night.)

Yay for awesome friends! Liz babysat the kiddos for us while Mark and I went out for a Mother's Day date - yeah how awesome is that?!? What a treat! We went to Bravo! and had a yummy Italian meal on the patio and talked (perfect, cool Albuquerque weather too) One of my favorite dates ever. Mark also got me a really sweet Mother's Day card. He always encourages me and supports me as I strive to do my best in raising twins! He's a rocking awesome husband and father (more on that when I get my Father's Day post up!)

Thanks again, Liz, for making my Mother's Day extra special and for helping out so much with the kiddos and for watching them TWICE so we could go on dates! You blessed us so much in the days you were here!