Mother's Day Surprise!

This would have been the first Mother's Day my mom would have without any of her daughters home to celebrate with her. But...my dad, who is the best dad in the world, helped all three of us girls coordinate a huge surprise for my mom this weekend! We all flew from southern California on Friday night, woke my mom up at 11:00 p.m. and surprised her with the news that she would have all three girls home for a weekend to celebrate Mother's Day with! She was soooo surprised and it definitely will go down as the best Mother's Day ever. We had such a fun weekend the five of us- we stayed home for most of it which is what we wanted- but we also took a trip out on Saturday for coffee and to walk around downtown and then again on Sunday for a coffee at McGlade's. We did what our family does best...laugh a lot, talk a lot, play games (we love just about any card game and Yahtzee), take walks, cook and bake (we girls made in one afternoon homemade energy bars, an apple pie, a chocolate cake and homemade mac n' cheese which are all our favorite dishes), and watch home videos. We LOVE watching home videos together and then laugh and laugh about how cute and silly we were when we were little. It was such a special weekend- very hard when it came time for good byes on Monday morning-but it was amazing how it all worked out and I will forever remember this weekend with my family!

Our lifelong, family friends, the Widmers found out we were in town (well...we ran into Les at the grocery store on Saturday and then the whole family showed up in the backyard on Sunday afternoon). This family is just an extention of ours. We've grown up together, had years of Family Game Nights with them, and even though we're all grown up, and some of us married, we still love eachother like we're one big brood! It was a blessing to get to all see eachother and of course we had to get a picture of the reunion!

Happy Mother's Day to the best mom in the whole world! I love you so much mom!