Happy Birthday Mom - Nov. 7th

SURPRISE! I think we pulled things off very well. As usual mom would not tell anybody what she wanted for her birthday, and she is not very easy to buy for. The night before her birthday Kerry was trying to get the birthday information out of her one more time. Mom told Kerry she could rake up all the leaves in the yard, pick up the apples (if there were any) and then fertilize the lawn. Kerry did not think that answer was very funny as it involved manual labor. I, on the other hand, knew mom really wanted those things done. Mom would be out of the house from 9am until 1pm so there was time to do it without her knowing or helping! The text message was sent to the siblings and the plan was set.

Tristan, Aaron, Daniel, Caley and I spent a few hours raking/blowing the leaves, picking up a few apples (the two trees did not produce many apples this year), putting up new numbers and a new mailbox on the house. We also got balloons and decorated the front room. It felt great to be doing all of this for Mom.

That evening everyone gathered at Mom's for pizza and to make rainbow cake. David and his family even came up from Las Vegas for the weekend.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!