Mother's Day Surprise

I came home on Wednesday and at 4am on Friday before mother's day I was back in the airport. The week before I was sitting with Kevin and asked how long it had been since his Mom, Karen, had been able to spend mother's day with all three of her kids. He guessed it was before he went on his mission, Kev is now 35. So I got on the phone and called Melissa to see if she could take Friday off work. Then we called Rebecca and see if she could help us suprise Karen. Karen was planning on being at Becky's house for mother's day. And there were open flights. YEA the plan was in action.

So Melissa, Kevin and I head to the airport at 4 am on Friday before mother's day. We fly standby so we only make it on the flights if there is openings. As we sit there we watch the number of open seats go down and down, realizing that all of us were not going to make it on the flight. The counter calls us up and says that they can get one of us on the flight, and that most of the flights are booked for that day. I tell them to send Melissa and give her Karen's gift in case we can't make it. And tell her we will try for the next flight. Off Melissa goes and Kevin and I start waiting for the next flight an hour later.

Melissa makes it to Denver and is waiting for her flight to Canada. We make it on the second flight, knowing we will be coming in a few minutes to late to make the Canada flight and will have to wait in the Denver airport for 4 hours. But alas, our flight some how gets ahead of schedule. As we land we call to Melissa and ask her what gate she is at. She tells us and says she is going to ask them to hold the plane. They will not but they will be ready for us if we make. As we wait to get off the plane we are nervously wondering if we will make it. We jump off the plane and RUN down the halls, and get to our plane just in time as they close the gates behind us... we had made it....seriously in the nick of time.

While all this is going on Becky is trying to keep the fact that we are coming a secret from her mom, and even her kids know. Brad, Becky's husband, comes to the airport and picks us up and he and Becky have arranged for us to meet in the food court at the mall. It was perfect.



And I got the picture of her face as she recognized us. It was so great! She was so happy. And it to was a fast trip we were there on Friday and Saturday and left on Sunday before everyone was up. But Kev's grandma was also in town so we got to get some pictures with her. It was a perfect gift for Mother's Day. And Karen was definitely surprised.


But after spending days in airports and traveling I was happy to be home.