Surprise!

Since it's so difficult to surprise me, my family went all out with a combination Mother's Day and birthday celebration yesterday.

Ds1 and I were off to see Spiderman 3. I don't know if it was the hassle prior to the movie, or sitting four rows back from the screen, but I didn't much care for it. I loved the first two Spiderman movies. I guess I'm hard to please.

So we got back home to find this, notice the coloring of the balloons to the right. The colors signify some of my gifts, NICE, guys, very clever touch (seriously!).
Dinner was ready to eat, and there was a chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting.

I commenced to opening my presents. First I opened my card, which was very sweet and funny from ds2.

My first gift was a Whitman's Sampler (chocolates) which ds2 asked to have immediately... the pink Disney shirt is a gift from my mother, btw.



My next present was Russell Stover Nut, Chewy and Crisp Centers, but I wasn't about to give these up, nuts and chews are my favorite! Even ds1 was begging for a handout on these!




My next gift was a lovely teapot with all the things I wanted in a teapot, and a beautiful cup with which to drink tea.

That was all the presents on the table, but then dh handed me a small gift wrapped box.



WOW, is that beautiful?

I was momentarily confused, as just this past week I bought myself two rings off eBay. The first one is an eternity ring and was $8.99. .925 Sterling Silver and Austrian crystals (copies of diamonds and emeralds).
The second one is diamond cut rhodium-plated. This ring is made of jeweler's brass, and was $4.99. $2.52 shipping on each ring.

Got ds2 good, too. Told him they cost, "Four ninety-nine and eight ninety-nine." He asked, "Dollars?" And was freaking out, thinking I'd charged $1400.00 on rings. Finally told him they were only $4.99 and $8.99. Pretty rings, fast and courteous communication from the seller, arriving by USPS a mere two days after I'd purchased them.

I'd looked at the emerald and diamond gold ring a couple of weeks ago at a local, family-owned jewelry store and really liked it... but felt it was too much money to spend on a ring... $300. The jeweler told us she was running a 25% sale for Mother's Day, so it ended up being $225.

The confusion came in because I thought dh had somehow found time to wrap the rings I just received in the mail that very day, and had had with me while at the movie. I didn't understand another little ring box.

Which brings me to my last gift, from ds2.


WOW. These are gorgeous earrings and at first I was freaking out, since they were so expensive. They were regularly $400!!! OUCH!!! But the jeweler put the cost down to $189 because dh and ds2 explained that they only had exactly $450 to spend.

It's really hard for dh to surprise me, since I manage the finances... I would know if large sums of money were missing, or I would see charges to credit/debit cards.

Since the guys bought these on Friday, they had to hurry and surprise me, or I would have known something was up. See they had me pull out $300 cash for hay... under the guise of getting 30 bales all at once. Then they realized that if I didn't see 30 bales of hay, I'd know something was up. So they decided to give me an early Mother's Day/birthday surprise.

Awesome. I feel loved.

Until next time.