Mother's Day

Mother's Day around here was quite the event. It started with Eca (a friend of the Moschner's) coming over and a little bit of cake for breakfast! Yum! Then we all jumped in the car and headed up to the Sunshine Coast Hinterland to some sweet little villages in the rain forest for lunch.

This cafe, called Poet's, was really lovely and served up some fantastic fare! We all enjoyed our meal (especially since we didn't arrive until 2 pm and were all starved!).

Jeremy's paternal grandparents, Margaret and Norbert.

Jeremy's parents, Hanya and Ken.

Us. We're so cute. :)

And Eca (pronounced Ee-ka) who is a friend of the family that Ken met through playing Bridge (he is an avid Bridge player).

After lunch, we walked around to all the shops and looked for little treasures to take home. Along the way we walked under this giant bat made of car parts (cool, eh?) and I found lots of American candies like Hot Tamales, Sour Patch Kids and Sugar Babies! What good timing too because I got my first paycheck on Friday! Yay! (One thing that might interest you, most countries in the world don't do the whole cinnamon thing so trying the Hot Tamales was Jeremy's first encounter with really spicy cinnamon candy--he loved it!)

But I can't say all of us were so excited about the shopping... Seriously, this table was well stocked with "man magazines" about cars and camping stuff. haha. Jeremy was ridiculous. He was practically running in circles around me chanting, "When are we going? What is mom doing?" (She was looking at a craft shop and buying a quilt rack--important stuff!) haha.

On the way home we stopped off at a scenic viewpoint and took some family photos. It was so nice to spend the afternoon together and I think his mom really enjoyed her Mother's Day.

The beautiful view. This size just doesn't do it justice. Click on it to follow the link to a larger size.

Jeremy's family (l-r): (friend) Eca, (grandma) Margaret, (father) Ken, (mother) Hanya, Jeremy, and (grandpa) Norbert.

The mothers of Mother's Day.

I snuck this photo while they weren't looking. Such a cute couple!

The beautiful sunset. Every sunset here is beautiful but you can't always get a good look from J's parent's home (you can just see the colors in the sky).

Unfortunately, the only thing I could give my mom was a nice, long phone call but it was so wonderful to talk anyway. I hear that my brother is getting married this Saturday; I wish I could be there. I also heard that my Great Grandpa Ray died on Saturday so please pray for our family. I'm not sure if they will be having a service (there is some talk that they might have one on Saturday this week--my brother's wedding day!) but there is a good chance that they won't since my Great Grandma didn't want one. If so, pray that they will all have the closure they need.

I hope you all had wonderful Mother's Days with your moms (or your kids)! :)