Quite the Surprise!

So, yesterday Tracy called me and asked if I wanted to meet for dinner at Olive Garden. I said sure, and didn't really think anything of it, since we get together all the time. So I left work at 4 so I could still get my workout in before dinner, and then I headed over to the OG. Imagine my surprise when I saw my MOM sitting at the table! My mouth just dropped open; I couldn't believe she had flown out to surprise us! So that was very cool :)

And, here are some more pics. Ok, I know I'm all over the place in terms of posting, but remember how last Saturday I said we went to The Orpheum and I would upload pictures? Well, here they are. Oh, you can see my new haircut, which I'm liking a lot better now that it's grown out some. Before it was waaaay too short.






Rori, just being adorable (as always!)


I call this one "Rori Simmons" since she reminds me of Gene Simmons of Kiss.


Rori brought one of her books from school with us; she LOVES to read and be read to, and she already can read and write a lot of words. She knows a lot for a kindergartener! (Oh, and she doesn't wear glasses; those are Greg's, but she likes to wear them for fun).


Pretending to ponder something she's read...




Isn't she cute? Is it any surprise that she makes me want kids even more than I already do?


Here's Roberta, Tracy's mother-in-law, the one whose birthday we were celebrating.


Rori and I shared some cheesecake for dessert.


Rori being silly...


Rori took this picture; I joke that I always have a double chin in the photos she takes of me, so I was "pulling it back" for this photo.





I was tickling her, hence the silly face.


On the left: Kerman (their good friend), Dan, me, Rori.
Center: Roberta
On the right: Dan Hines (we always have to differentiate, since there's two Dans), Tracy, Kirsti, and Dan's brother Greg.


Greg and Rori making weird faces.


Oh, and this is what we saw as we left. I LOVE snow (I really do) but the end of March is too, too late for snow (in my book, anyway!) Oh well, it melted the next day. It was kind of pretty!