A Surprise for Mother's Day!

*** Somehow this didn't get posted when I wanted it to... so I'm posting it now... Because it's such a sweet post :)

 My surprise trip to South Dakota went off without a hitch. I was so worried that Mom would find out the moment I landed in Sioux Falls and the whole ruse Kathy and I had been working on would be ruined in moments.

Once I landed, Kathy & Shari picked me up at the airport and we made our way to Watertown, we stopped and grabbed some Hardee's and then picked up Kevin (Kathy's grandson) at school. Then we went over to the Junior high where we knew Shannon would be to pick up Erica from school hoping to surprise them each in a unique way.

When we got to the Jr. High I saw Shannon's car parked and she was sitting inside with the window down waiting for Erica to get out of school. I walked up to her window and said "Hey Lady can I get a ride" and she looked up at me and said "WHAT??" and then she said "What ... when did you get here?" and her eyes were as big as golf balls!  She jumped out of her car and hugged me and started to cry. She didn't even see me coming :).

Then, I hid behind her car and waited for Erica. Shannon, Kathy, Shari and Kevin waited at the rear of the car too, talking until they could see Erica. Erica walked up to the car and everyone asked how her day at school was. Then I stood up in view and said "Yeah Erica how was school today" and she looked right at me and said fine, and then put her bookbag in the backseat of the car when she realized it was me! She threw her bag and phone the rest of the way in and came running and started to cry when she hugged me too, and said "I think I broke my phone". 

To say I was successful at surprising is an understatement.

We then went over to Pro Build to surprise my brother Tony. Shannon called him and asked him to come out and look at her car and he took one look at me and said "Oh Hey Abbs". As if I had driven across town to surprise him, not STATES. He is a tough one to get a reaction out of, so I was happy that he went with when we went to surprise Mom.

Kathy, Shari and Kevin went in to tell Mom they had a surprise for her. We didn't want to give her a heart attack. So they covered her eyes with a hooded sweatshirt and called me in.

I walked in and pulled the hood off her head, and this is how she looked :)...

 Kodak Moment.

 There were a few tears, but only happy tears.

 I was pretty pleased with myself, surprising my Mom, or my family for that matter has never been a strong suit of mine. I get too excited and inevitably tell someone.

Not this time... I kept my trap shut! Go me :)