mother's day brunch

mom is impossible to buy for and in may we have to come up with something for her birthday (although she says she doesn't have a birthday, we make her celebrate it) and mother's day. this year we gave her a little something for her birthday and then decided to get the whole family together and take her out to brunch for mother's day.
jenn and i saw that the rock financial showplace was having a mother's day brunch and after calling around (pretty much last minute) to several places, we decided to give them a try.
the brunch was delicious and was the first brunch (outside of a shoney's $4.99 all you can eat breakfast bar....big boy to us midwesterners) for justin. dave and justin fell in love with the cheesecake bar, hayden ate his weight in watermelon, rainah loved the chocolate covered pretzel, and talan ate whatever we put in front of him.
i had told hayden days before that on sunday, when we went to eat, he was going to pretend to be 3, almost 4. he thought it was "crazy" but went along with the plan. i coached him not to say anything to anybody unless they asked. then he'd have to tell them he was 3. we were not about to pay $12 for a kid who would eat less then the two babies at the table!
nobody ever asked, and hayden actually ate more then we've seen him eat all month. he even ate bacon and asked for seconds!
after brunch we all headed back to mom and dad's to hang out and have some cake and ice cream for mom's birthday (dad was kind and got a cake that said "happy mother's day" even though we all knew it was for her birthday). unfortunately, dad was not feeling well and went upstairs to rest (not sure how that went with all of the noise coming from downstairs). hopefully you're doing better today, dad!
we all had a great time being together and eating, of course. happy mutha's day to all you mutha's out there.


after leaving church and running to a store , we still had a lot of time to kill before brunch. dave thought it would be fun to speed through the parking lot making me almost puke. hayden loved it and talan slept. after awhile dave asked hayden if he wanted to try. so hayden got the chance to learn to drive. in the rain. :


talan was so hungry on the way to brunch he had to double fist it:
the fam:
chocolate rainah:
hayden's eating bacon!:
i guess jessica doesn't like omelette's filled with bacon and ham:
he liked the oj. he also liked spilling it all over himself:
talan loves justin. and this is talan's new scrunchy face he does, especially when you pull out a camera:
he was meaning to close his eyes:
one of the many pieces of watermelon hayden ate:
dad and mom yuckin' it up: