yesterday was my mom's 50th birthday and it was such a success. the night before i went to dominicks and got flowers and balloons. then i came home and decorrated everything. i made "honk!!! happy 50th mom!" signs and all day yesterday people were honking their horns. the little kids going to school would yell "honk!" it was funny. we went to this really nice restaraunt which i was not too happy about. the day before i pooped like a million times i was so nervous. but then after i started decorrating i got a little excited and then yesterday decided to just try really hard not to have a panic attack but to enjoy the company of my family minus josh. so at first i was absolutely miserable at this restaraunt but it got better quickly. for one thing our waiter was awesome. he spoke french so he and i talked the whole night in french. he also knew dutch cause he was from holland, and since my dad grew up in south africa, the two spoke dutch the whole night. ive never heard my dad have a conversation in africaans. it turned out to be a great time. we were far too stuffed to eat the cake i made so we opened presents when we got home. all three of them. oh ya, though, there were 2 flower deliveries so that counts. mom opened all her cards first and she was giggling and bouncing her legs. i dont think ive ever seen her that giddy. it was so cute. she opened her pearl earrings from hollie and her tiffany's bracelet from me (worth an entire week of work) and then the sapphire bracelet from dad. and after she just sat there looking at her wrists and looking at her earrings in the mirror. im like, "wow mom, jewelry and flowers. not too bad." it was so nice to know she had a great 50th birthday. it was really special and we had such a great time. yea!