Mother's Day, 2008

Mom's youngest, David, is currently living in Illinois. He came home for Mother's Day, which made mom smile from ear to ear!! He's our computer genius, so we always have something for him to fix. He has a great job out there, but we sure miss seeing him day to day.

Whenever any combination of us 'West siblings' get together, there is always much goofiness and fun times. Mom laughs at us quite a bit, and is constantly amazed at how well we all get along...finally!!! {I seem to remember us getting quite a bit of our goofiness from her, for the record! :) }

Here are my two pretty ladies...mom & my aunt Arlene. Arlene is the best nurse ever! We are all so grateful for her and Dick staying with us. Dick has a very dry sense of humor, and has suprised me with how funny he is! We are constantly teasing each other...again, making the other ladies laugh!

While David was home, the three of us sat around one night {with Arlene and my dear friend, Meghan} and recorded some of our favorite road trip & bedtime songs. The biggest challenge? Not laughing while doing so! {Are you sensing the theme...laughter is truly the best medicine! :)}

Though this whole experience has been way more than any of us ever imagined it would be, I wouldn't trade our time together. We were truly blessed with great parents, and an amazing mom. We are pretty darn fond of her...yep, mom...you're truly stuck with us! :)

"Life is not measureed by the number of breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away."