Chillin' With Our Peeps

My mom's big 5-0 was on February 3rd, but since we were packing and moving my dad back then, we didn't really get to do much for her. Diana and I decided to be tricksters throw her a surprise 50th B-Day party!! The craziest thing is that with just our family and a few of her closest friends, there were like 50 people there! Nuts! Anyway, we pulled it off and she was successfully surprised despite calling three separate people who were at the party waiting for her to come:) And as predicted, she was on the phone when she walked in the door.....now...if we can manage to permanently attach that thing to her ear, life would be much easier!

I didn't get one picture of her actual surprise face with this camera because I got it with my sisters, but here are a few pics of the party:

Diana and I always make cakes but decided to go with a professional in order to save ourselves a HUGE headache....the cake wasn't necessarily what we asked for decoration-wise, but we vamped it up a little and made it our own....and MAN, it tasted SO GOOD!! YUMMO! Here's before, it came with pillars to stand the top layer on, and we took the roses off to cut it....

and after we "fixed" it....

Regardless....mom liked it:)

Here's the whole family....Poor Russ had to work "serving and protecting the citizens of Champaign" :)

Mom and her "girls", she's known these ladies most of her life

Mom and dad and their friends The Fricke's...without all the massive amounts of help they gave them financially, I'm not sure they would've made it past the last two years!

My dad couldn't afford to get her any big present this year, so instead, he wrote her this AWESOME SONG! None of us had a video camera (what?), so a picture will have to do! It made everyone cry:)

And finally, I just thought I would share about what a HUGE Mac-Daddy our friend's little boy E is....Maebree decided to wear his shoes, so he took the opportunity to take advantage of the situation...I think his shirt says it all:)