How We Do Mother's Day

Mother's Day is a great day.  I've been blessed by God to have a GREAT Mother to raise me and to also have a GREAT Mother to my children.  We started off a day early in the celebration.  Tricia wanted a new rose bush - a hybrid tea rose called "Blue Girl."  After much searching, we finally found it at Natural Gardens here in Jennings.  It is called Blue Girl but is actually a very light pink.  Tricia appropriately wore blue to plant Blue Girl.

Russ and Benjamin got busy and dug the hole and prepared things so that their mom could get her rose planted exactly where she wanted it.

The rose was put into the hole and the hole was back-filled with garden soil, patted down, and watered.  I think this rose will really make Tricia happy!

On Sunday after church, we drove to Kinder.  Dad had prepared a big pot of crawfish etouffee and everyone came over to honor my Mom.  Laura even made it in from Baton Rouge.  Mom is on the right in the photo below, and I can truly say that God blessed me with a great mom.  I'll always be grateful for everything she's done for me. 

We ate, visited, took a few photos, but were missing Benjamin as he was out in the woods with his cousins.

What a great day!  But the day wasn't done.  What Mother's Day is complete without... potatoes and a potato gun?

My brother, Kristian, brought his potato gun in from New Orleans.  This thing is actually a potato bazooka or a RPG potato gun.  You unscrew the cap on the end and spray a bunch of White Rain Hairspray in the chamber.

Seal it up real tight...

Put the potato in the barrel and pack it in real good.

Put it on your shoulder, take aim and press the igniter button!

BOOM!!! The noise is deafening and the potato flies 100 yards, smashing into trees, the side of a barn or up and out of sight to the delight of all in attendance.  We had a real good time.  We had a blast - with or without the potato gun.  Happy Mother's Day, Mom and Tricia.  We love you both!