My Mother's Day

Since James and I both have to work this Sunday, I took yesterday off to be with my boys and we celebrated my first mother's day, and I couldn't have asked for a better one.  We had an appointment to do Rylan's 6 month photos, and they came out so great!!!!  I LOVE picture people.  I'll post the link below to the photos; the ladies at the shop loved Rylan and him in the cowboy hat so much they asked us to sign a release because they are considering framing the photos and putting them up in the store and possibly in the computer system for all the stores.  That of course made for some very proud parents.  It also made it very difficult not to spend all of our savings on the pictures!  Rylan did so good the whole time, through the pictures, outfit changes, and waiting/looking at the pictures. 
After the pictures James had set up for him and I to go to a tattoo shop for both of us to get our tattoos that we have been waiting.  James' was done first and he got a cross with Rylan James written above it.  The cross is very cool, and the lettering the guy did is amazing.  I got a turtle on my foot with a hibiscus flower in the center.  I wanted a turtle since that was the first toys Rylan was interested in, and I have always liked hibiscus flowers so it worked.  And yes, it hurt, it still hurts, in fact it might hurt more now than it did during the tattoo.  But it is worth it, I love it, and it will always be a reminder of when Rylan was a little baby.
After the tattoos we stopped by James' parents to show them the pictures of Rylan.  And then James and Rylan took me to dinner.  We went to a local Japanese steak house.  We had taken Rylan two other times to a steak house, but he was asleep those times.  Last night he was awake and he loved watching the chef.  When he lit the grill on fire Rylan just laughed at him, it was so cute and Rylan had the whole table laughing with him.
Overall, it really was a wonderful day with my wonderful husband, and my baby boy who means the world to me.  I really couldn't have asked for anything better!

Here is the link to the photos:

http://smilestore.picturepeople.com/pr3/viewalbum.aspx?a=708927

And our tattoos