Fancy, Bling, Funny, Loud, Caring, Bright, Works Hard, Like & Loveable, 3 Children, 2 Daughter-in-Laws and 5 Grand Children these words describe my mom. My mom and I have had good patches, really rough patches and I think we are best friends. If there is a problem, question, concern or just wanting to talk I call her. We talk about 1 - 2 times a week if that sometimes more.
With all of the great things that she does for my family and for my brothers family, I figured it might be nice to throw her a Surprise Birthday party. So I got my brothers and their wife's involved. I emailed my mom's brother and sisters, close friends and bunko group. We decided to have it nice and fun. We made Pork Cafe Rio Salads, Guacamole, Salsa and Cake.
We made everything but the rice at my house. We had my brothers and their wife's come over about 11 and we finished cooking. then Landon, Logan, Brooke and Cristy headed over to mom's to re-arrange the furniture to put up the party decorations. They did such a great job it looked really good. I had arranged for Donna (one of mom's good friends) to get her out of her house and they decided to go up to Park City and go shopping. We made arrangements with guest to arrive at 5:30 (no later) so that mom would arrive home by 6:00. Well of coarse nothing goes to plan and its even worse when you are wanting to be in control. It came to be 6:00 then 6:05 and no word from Donna. So we started searching every where for her number. In the meantime we had everyone hanging out downstairs, all the lights off upstairs and we started psyching us out (Brooke, Landon and me) The lights would flicker, or we would think we heard something. Finally I had Landon see if he could get her home phone to work to see the caller ID list to see if Donna had called mom in the past on her cell phone - we were in luck. So I called Donna and got her voicemail. I tried it again and I got her voice mail. Finally she called me back within minutes of me calling her and by that time it was about 6:30ish. They were still shopping and getting ready to head home. By about 7:15 ish I recieved another call from Donna that they were back in the Salt Lake Valley. Since mom was with Donna with each phone call, Donna pretended to call her daughter and see how she was doing.
Finally about 7:30ish mom and Donna finally arrived home - however it was going to take an extra few minutes or so to get her down stairs due to them dilly dalling around. In the end the grownups were laughing while trying to keep the little kids from crying and as mom came down the stairs she her a kid crying (thinking Landon and Cristy were here) and instead first saw her boss, Stan sitting there in the dark and then finally the lights went on and there was the surprise. It was great.
With all of the great things that she does for my family and for my brothers family, I figured it might be nice to throw her a Surprise Birthday party. So I got my brothers and their wife's involved. I emailed my mom's brother and sisters, close friends and bunko group. We decided to have it nice and fun. We made Pork Cafe Rio Salads, Guacamole, Salsa and Cake.
We made everything but the rice at my house. We had my brothers and their wife's come over about 11 and we finished cooking. then Landon, Logan, Brooke and Cristy headed over to mom's to re-arrange the furniture to put up the party decorations. They did such a great job it looked really good. I had arranged for Donna (one of mom's good friends) to get her out of her house and they decided to go up to Park City and go shopping. We made arrangements with guest to arrive at 5:30 (no later) so that mom would arrive home by 6:00. Well of coarse nothing goes to plan and its even worse when you are wanting to be in control. It came to be 6:00 then 6:05 and no word from Donna. So we started searching every where for her number. In the meantime we had everyone hanging out downstairs, all the lights off upstairs and we started psyching us out (Brooke, Landon and me) The lights would flicker, or we would think we heard something. Finally I had Landon see if he could get her home phone to work to see the caller ID list to see if Donna had called mom in the past on her cell phone - we were in luck. So I called Donna and got her voicemail. I tried it again and I got her voice mail. Finally she called me back within minutes of me calling her and by that time it was about 6:30ish. They were still shopping and getting ready to head home. By about 7:15 ish I recieved another call from Donna that they were back in the Salt Lake Valley. Since mom was with Donna with each phone call, Donna pretended to call her daughter and see how she was doing.
Finally about 7:30ish mom and Donna finally arrived home - however it was going to take an extra few minutes or so to get her down stairs due to them dilly dalling around. In the end the grownups were laughing while trying to keep the little kids from crying and as mom came down the stairs she her a kid crying (thinking Landon and Cristy were here) and instead first saw her boss, Stan sitting there in the dark and then finally the lights went on and there was the surprise. It was great.
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