Mother’s Day in April

We celebrated Mother’s Day with our moms this weekend.  The last time my mom came up for a Mother's Day weekend full of yardwork was 2009.  Guess it took her a few years to recover…

Anyway, she came up Thursday evening.  I took Friday off and we hit Home Depot, Walmart, and Jersey Mike’s – our traditional lunch spot during weekends like this – that morning to get our flowers.  We spent the afternoon pulling weeds, digging holes, and filling them with flowers.  We didn’t finish, but we still had until around 2:00, when the McMom was due to arrive, on Saturday to wrap things up.

So here’s where I should be showing you pictures of scotch broom and speedwell, ferns and phlox, petunias and impatiens.  But I don’t have any.  Blogger fail.  That’s why I don’t make the big bucks with this little nighttime project of mine.

Anyway, the reason we celebrated about a month early is that we, along with Bri and Nate and Kevin and Jenny, treated our moms to a concert, but it was a surprise.  All they knew was they needed to be up here Saturday night and they were going somewhere. 

So who did they see?

Martina McBride!  At the DPAC, which is just an awesome venue and I’m sure Martina rocked the house.  Oh yeah, we had to take the moms’ word that the concert was good because it was a moms-only outing.  We fed them Mellow Mushroom, gave them their tickets, handed them the GPS, and waved them on their way.

The moms hung around afterward thinking they would catch a glimpse of Martina as she headed to her bus so she could get home.  Guess what?  They did more than just SEE Martina.

They made a Martina Sandwich and got photographic proof of it.  How awesome is that?!

I was ready for them when they got home just before midnight.

Yep, looks like they’re still riding high from their date night.

It was a lot of fun to surprise them with the concert.  Our moms do such a great job of taking care of us and our siblings and their families that we all really wanted to have the moms go do something fun just for themselves.

Thank you Mom and McMom for all you do.  We appreciate you guys more than you know.

Happy (early) Mother’s Day!

{By the way, Happy Birthday to Shannon!}