Wow! that's all I can say about this weekend. This weekend was all about my mom's surprise party that Mark was planning for months. Yes we all got her good. If you remember on a previous post I said that I was going to dad's if you were at the party you noticed that was not true. We all started to arrive around 5:30 or 6:00 but Nathan, Hailee, and I arrived a little early to help get things ready.
For the record we had brought the cake and it was beautiful. Nathan had ordered it and it had half of it vanilla and half red velvet since she LOVES red velvet cake but the thing with red velvet cake you either love it or you hate it, there is no in between and not everyone in our family including (me) loves red cake. So I thought it was so neat that the bakery that he ordered it from could half and half. But anyway the cake had all mom's nicknames on it and it read HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA, MOM, LALA, GRACIE. For the record Mark calls her Gracie because she always breaks glasses and bumps into things, and Mark seems to always hear her drop things when she is showering. and my cousin Emilia calls my mom Lala ever since she was younger because she has two aunt Lisas. If you are familiar with the teletubies Lala is the yellow one. Yes if you know mom yellow is her favorite color.
But the letters were written in lime green. Well anyway I was happy to say that she was in total shock when she came in that room. There were so many people that came into town that she didn't expect such as Uncle roger and her cousin colleen from Cincinnati
Aunt Karla and my cousin Maria from Louisville
Uncle Rick and his girl friend Judy from south Carolina
Uncle Bob and aunt Sue along her cousin Patrick from Florida plus many more. I was very glad that Maria could come. She came in her father's place and she was dressed more casual than most. It wasn't a real dressy event but I wore a purple dress that I had gotten in Florida along with a jean jacket with my silver shoes.
Yes the silver shoes that you like Jess. ;) But anyway Maria seemed a little embarrassed and apologized. All she had on was a sweatshirt, jeans, and tennis shoes. The reason she wasn't so dressed up was because she wasn't sure she wasn't able to go. I had gotten a call from grandma saying that she was coming in her father's place and if I would think Mark would mind. I honestly didn't think he would mind because it wasn't like she's a little girl she's a teenager.
She seemed to have a good time at first but after a couple hours she wanted her mom to take her home and sure enough aunt Karla did and came back. So you know there was a lot of dancing and I sure did join in. I surprised myself by discovering that I could slow dance but the real funny and embarrassing was when the DJ played one of ABBA's songs Dancing Queen. Uncle Rick basically dragged me out on the dance floor and started spinning me around and we were basically the only people out there and he was pointing at me yelling " Dancing queen." It was a great party and everyone enjoyed themselves.
Sunday was a more relaxing day. We still gathered at grandma and grandma's for pizza and to say good bye to uncle Roger and Aunt Karla before they left. When we were talking Aunt Karla showed us a video of a talking dog that was posted on youtube. that just made everyone laugh. I was happy to see that I was able to upload it on to my blog so that you can view it.
After Aunt Karla and uncle Roger left we went to cousin Frank's to visit. It was nice to see my cousin Nina who is in college to become a special ed elementary school teacher similar to Jess. All she has to complete is her student teaching. Best of luck to her and hope everything goes well :)
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