Potter About: Home Time in the 505!

So I've been long overdue updating my blog. A couple weeks ago I went home for my mom's birthday. All of us girl siblings came home to suprise my mom for her ##th birthday! (she wasn't too kean on the idea of her birthday) It was awesome, we planned a whole weekend of fun for her and the family. Here is how the weekend panned out.

Friday: So this is the funny part, we were planning on her being home all day and we were all going to go to the house together around dinner time to deliver it together for the surprise. Well, it turned out that she had to do some training of employees at her phoenix base, so she didn't end up getting home till about 10:30ish that night. This was quite hard for us since we were all so tired from our travels, but definitely a great time as we tried to think of the best ways to surprise her. Ideas such as tying our dad up and putting panty house over our heads acting like criminals, standing at the garage door when she opened it up (which we thought was a fun idea until the chance of her running us over came up) and just plain jumping out from behind the couches were brainstormed. Well, all that hard work just led to us hiding behind the couches and jumping out in unison yelling surprise. My mom just started laughing and stood there for about 3 minutes in shock. It was great. Even though we THINK she might of known there was something like this going on, she didn't know what we had planned for the weekend, which even came to more of a surprise when we handed her our itinerary.

With the help of my sister Tami, I have included the details of our weekend here. I just think she wrote it so well, why not copy it? :)

Day 1-Saturday: Excitement and Adventure
We took a white water rafting trip on the Rio Grande river! The morning was a gentle float and lunch followed by an afternoon of rapids. On the first rapid my sister and I, being unprepared for the bumps and jults fell off when we hit the first rapid! It was awesome, and the water actually felt good, made us stronger:) It was really fun and everyone had a really fun time, including my 6 year old nephew who hung on for dear life in the middle of the raft! We followed our rafting trip by a cookout at home for dinner then we rented a movie, but half of us fell asleep because we were so tired!

Day 2-Sunday: Relax and Renew
Well, of course, we attended church. But then we created our own personal spa! We found items from mother's day past, as well as brought various items to create an entire home spa. We did facials, manicures, pedicures as well as some self massage. We treated our mom, but all did our own nails and facials ;) Nice and relaxing, all of us needed the pampering:)

Day 3-Monday-Celebrate and Enjoy-Mom's Birthday!!!

The day of the birthday celebration finally arrived! We started out in the morning playing tennis together. We all had fun trading off playing doubles and singles. Even Camden and Landon got into the action. We then came home and had a fantabulous brunch with sweet and savory crepes, eggs, bacon and smoothies. We went bowling in the afternoon, which ended up being a really great time, we aren't bad! We all then came home and relaxed and got ready for dinner. That night, we went to Buca Di Beppo for some fun, family fare! My dad gave my mom and new Canon powershot, which we were all envious of, and we enjoyed some great food. We then came home for cake-and lots of noise! We had gotten some noisemakers and had fun creating a rucus for her happy birthday song. We partied till everyone was too tired to party any more! ;)