My first Mother's Day

This year was my first official mothers day (Last year I had just found out we were expecting). Jeff sure went above and beyond to make me feel appreciated as a new mom and wife. He first surprised me with the most beautiful arrangement of flowers, my favorite fruit drinks, a movie, gift certificate and a sweet card for Harper. He then told me I needed to be ready to leave the house by 5. We drove down the Seward highway to Girdwood and attempted to go eat at our favorite restaurant but no surprise the wait was at least 2 hours so we headed up to Alyeska Ski Resort and had an incredible dinner at The Aurora.

 

While on our drive, just past belluga point Jeff screamed "Holy Crap..." I was startled and thought we were going to wreck or something. He then said he saw a whale jump out of the water. I didn't really believe him because the tide was just coming in so it was pretty shallow in the area. And the only whales in the area are Bellugas and they don't jump out of water. Then all of a sudden a small grey whale jumped out again. It was incredible. We watched it for a good half hour. It was a super tiny whale and was most likely stranded from it's mother (I'm not a marine biologist or anything but we did just go on our grey whale cruise so I feel like I know what i'm talking about :) It was hard to get a good action shot with his phone!

Jeff surprised me and spoke on Mother's Day. I was running late to church so when I got there just before the sacrament, I briefly looked at the program and saw his name on it. I started panicing thinking he didn't know about it, or they forgot to tell him. But no, he knew and he did a wonderful job speaking about his mother and about me as a new mother.
(Harper was WAY too vocal and playful for me to sit through Relief Society so we hung out in the mother's lounge. This girl is my everything)

I’m so thankful for the amazing husband that I have been blessed with who is always showing and telling how much he loves and appreciates me. I’m so thankful to be his wife and the mother to his little girl. I’m so thankful to be a mother. I have waited my whole life for this moment and after waiting so long it just makes it that much sweeter to have Harper in our family. I absolutely love being a mom and look forward to many more mothers days in the years to come.