THE GOOD - HOUSTON

 Happy 95th Birthday Vivian

The party was wonderful. We had a private room and before the party started the woman who was taking care of us took some photos before we sat down to dinner. 

The dinner was delicious. Here is a photo of my plate. I had salmon. 

Mark gave a little speech about his mom and just couldn't stop the tears from coming. 

We were singing Happy Birthday to her.....

Make a wish....

Vivian and her grandchildren and great grandson. Hunter, Nicholas, Mom, Adam, James and Amber

What I am about to share happened on Friday, the day before the birthday party. I came up with two plans for the surprises. She only knew that her children were coming to Houston. Mark's brother Jeff, his wife and their boys live in Houston too.  His other brother Jimmy and his wife Caprice flew in on Thursday. We were supposed to arrive that day too, which we did, but it was late in the evening because of the car breaking down so we went right to the hotel. 

Wait! Before I share that I have a side note. Thursday was Vivian's actually birthday so her two son's from her second marriage and their wives took her out to dinner and celebrated with her which was really rather special if you ask me. 

So back to Friday when it was time to pick up Amber. We told Mom that the guys were going to go out for some wine and then get something Mark left at the hotel. Surprise....Amber arrived. She was shocked and thrilled to say the least. 

Then later it was time to pick up Adam, Gabby and James so they said they were going to get Amber checked in at the hotel. No problem. Then they arrived and she was so excited. It was really a great feeling to have it all work out as planned. 

So after the dinner we went back to Mom's house to hang out. Uncle Jeff has a dog named Snowball and James was enjoying him. 

He also had fun playing with his Uncle Jeff and Uncle Jimmy. 

So this is the cutest thing to share. When we were at dinner, across the table from James was our Nephew Nicholas with his girlfriend Faith. James whispers over to Gabby, mom, that girl is pretty. Can I meet her? So they went over to meet her. Here is a hug she gave him back and Mom's house. James was showing off his race car to her. It was so cute. 

This photo didn't come out well but we also sang Happy Birthday to Adam since it was his birthday the day we celebrated my mother in laws at the dinner. Vivian on the 19th, Adam on the 20th. 

After they left James was asking if she was going to be at their hotel. Then the next morning he was asking if she was going to be on their plane ride home. We just couldn't wrap our minds around what he was feeling. 

James with tissue in hand from his runny nose.

This beautiful huge Roadrunner metal sculpture was at a rest area we stopped at. 

I also have some photos from the road.

Michele and Pam had this sweet gift for me.....