Meadows Family: Reno

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Sunday, February 01, 2009

Surprise!

If you've been reading my blog the last couple days...I've been posting about my vacation but I've been posting them backwords so that you start from the top with the beginning and you go down until the end...this is my last vacation post :) So now you can read it in order... :)

So here goes...

Well I decided that I wanted to visit my family so I called my aunt who had a free ticket she was going to let me use. I thought it would be fun to surprise my parents and just show up. So I got my ticket and that next Tuesday.

The plane ride was fearful, but the kids ended up being perfect...both on the way there and on the way back to Orlando. I receieved many compliments on how well my children travel. I'm lucky I guess!

A few people knew that I would be there because I did need a little help with my plan. I called my brother Ryan and he picked me up from the airport. We headed straight to my mom's office where she was slammed with work. I came at the wrong time for her work schedule, but that didn't matter. We sent Kaylie into the office alone and then Ryan followed. I guess my mom looked at Kaylie and thought that it looked like her, but didn't have a clue why my brother had a little girl with her so she was just confused. Well then I walked in with Lucas and she just stood there in total shock. She came right over to Kaylie and just teared up, it was so exciting. Until she got home from work that night she just couldn't believe that we were there and were able to surprise her. It was a blast! I'm glad we did it this way and because of this she even got a couple days off!!!

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

Time to Bake

Kaylie loves baking and loves being a helper so when we are with my mom she loves it. My mom let's her cook cupcakes whenever and pretty much let's her do what she wants. Kaylie made cupcakes and cookies and decorated them all on her own!

Ice Skating-Northstar

Well I wanted to take Kaylie to the snow since we were in Reno during the Winter...that so didn't happen. The show that was on the ground was much more like ice, not fun to throw at anyone and surely not snowman making material. We did get to take her ice skating and while it was fun, it only lasted 2 laps around the rink and we were done. I do have to say that was perfect for me! I didn't want to even go around the second time, but Uncle Ryan joined Kaylie, Makayla and myself so I went. Kaylie had fun but was done with her skates after that.

Best Uncles!

My brothers are so awesome with my little ones. They constantly have Kaylie laughing or crying :) and they were great with Lucas. When Lucas was crying a ton because his schedule was way off...they had the "special hold" Thanks Ryan & Jason for being awesome brothers and super uncles.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Happy Early Birthday Kaylie & Makayla!

Well since we were in town my Mom wanted to celebrate Kayile's birthday at her house, it was a lot of fun. Since my aunt Deb and cousin Makayla were there we celebrated Makayla's also since it's 3 days after Kaylie's.

The most fun probably came with the cake so I'll start with that.... You probably had to be here for this, but this pics should be enough!

So my mom went with Kaylie to order the cake so Kaylie could pick it out. My Mom came home and said they got a Tinkerbell one, that's what Kaylie wanted. The next day we were going to be out ice skating so we had Joe (step dad's brother) pick up the cake for us. When we got home from ice skating I looked at the cake and asked my mom if this is what the picture of the cake looked like. She about died. She had ordered a cake where the kids picture is added and the put that printable sugar paper on the top of the cake...she asked for it just without Kaylie's picture.

This is the cake that was on the table...

I told my mom there is no way I was going to let her pay $20 for that cake (even though that was a cheap price), but whatever. So since we had to run to the store I said I was going to bring the cake back and we'd ask them to re-do it for the next day and we'd have the party then. So we did. I went to the bakery (my mom wouldn't come with me) and I showed the girls at the counter the cake. They were suprised at what a mess it was so they went and talked and came back and said to give them a few minutes, they'd fix it for us. I figured, no big deal......Well 40 minutes later and after them telling us about 25 minutes into making the cake that they weren't actual cake decorators...they were sandwich makers, this is what we came home with. The girls there were very nice, but they should have never attempted to make a cake and should have never forgotten to mention that they didn't do it for a living....We gracefully took the cake home and just laughed! The did give us half of the money back and are supposed to call my mom to give her the remainder of her money back for the mess! It's funny though because those girls thought they had done such a great job, they were so proud they did that for being sandwich makers....seriously? I could have make a cake look like this with the tools they have, I hope I could have done a better job and not sprayed so much green that it actually looked like grass was growing on this cake!
Sorry the pic is sideways...I can't help it!

Oh yeah and this is what the cake was supposed to look like :)

Happy "Way Early" Birthday Girls!!

Friday, January 30, 2009

See you later Mom!

Well we had such a fun week at my mom's house, she loved her surprise and we loved seeing her. She is so awesome and I wish I lived closer to her...so I could bug her more often :) Love you Mom, you're the best!