Eddo's Weekend Update

I had a great weekend, and if you read my post about Kingdom of Heaven then you already know that I went to the movies Friday night, but before the movies I went to dinner at the California Pizza Kitchen, which was delicious, but the best part was the company. My guys - Cody, Dumas, and Nathan all came up to Frisco and we hung out for a while. I have been mentoring these guys for the past 7 years and they are all like the little brothers that I never had. They are all so much fun and unique and they bless me every time I am around them.

Saturday I BOUGHT A NEW TRUCK! YEAH!

On the way to work on Friday I am cruising down HWY 75 and all of the sudden the blue 89 chevy - that has never broke down on the side of the road since I have owned it for 10 years - finally broke down on me. So I called Maksim to come and get me and I called my mom and asked to borrow a car. Long story short, mom and I went car shopping on Friday and I bought this truck on Saturday.



It is a 2004 used GMC, but I really love it. It is one of those splurges that I feel like I can afford to make while I am still 29, hot, and single.

My mom found this truck and I wasn't interested at all because I saw the photos online, but in person it is so much cooler and so this picture that I grabbed from the dealership's website doesn't really do it justice.

Mother's Day

The whole family went to The Cheesecake Factory for Mother's Day. Holidays are always fun because I get to see both of my sisters which I rarely get to see and they are both so much fun. My mom deserves an award of some sort for not only raising us, but raising half of Texas. At church yesterday they awarded this mother of 6 a basket of goodies and they read off this letter that her child wrote about her and how she did all this wonderful stuff, I couldn't help but think - that's it? You are giving her a basket and all she did was take care of her own children? I wanted to stand up and say, "Hey, wait! My mother is the mother of 30+ boys at a boys Ranch in Flowermound, she has allowed 4 of these juveniles to live in her home because they had no place to go, she works full time, is in the ministry full time, has raised her own 3 kids, 3 foster children for multiple years, and over 25 other children that have needed a place to stay when they had no place to go, or their parents didn't know how to handle them anymore."

After saying all of this I would have realized that a simple Mother's Day basket would have seemed insufficient and frivolous and the only way to properly award my mother would have been to give her saint hood like Mother Teresa. For right now, I think she is happy just being Mother Dana - or just mom.

Hope your Mother's Day was great mom - I love you!