So yesterday Jace and I flew into California to surprise my grandma for her 70th birthday party! I've known for two weeks that we were coming out but had to keep it on the down low so that the surprise wouldn't get out! It was so hard keeping it from family and friends but in the end it was so worth it seeing my Grandmas reaction to us standing in front of her! Rewind a bit, we got to the airport at 6:40 and the whole process was a piece of a cake. I was really worried about traveling alone with Jace. He's such a great boy, but sometimes you just never know with him. Let alone trying to manage through airport security and juggling our bags. The whole thought stressed me out for days. Luckily it was so much easier than I had expected. Everyone from airport workers, to the virgin airlines staff, to random strangers were so helpful! Not to mention Chicago O'hare is such an easy airport. Jace was wonderful on the flight. Our flight was pretty empty so the two ladies that were supposed to sit next to us offered to switch so Jace could have his own row to roam around on. The ladies across from us loved playing with Jace and were really helpful (one even offered to let us play on her laptop) the man in first class ahead of us offered to buy us food since everything was included in his seat, another lady offered to buy me a drink and the flight attendants loved playing with Jace. They came and checked on us multiple times, offered to hold Jace if I needed to use the restroom, or warm up any food. The whole experience was just great. I even got a compliment from an older gentlemen saying that Jace was the most well behaved child he had ever seen. Jace fell asleep after two hours and slept until we landed. Once we got to LAX though they couldn't find my stroller which should have been waiting for me off of the terminal, and they had all of the elevators closed. It was a madhouse. So when I finally got to my family 20 minutes after landing I surprised them by coming from outside and sneaking up behind them! On the way home we stopped fast at in n out which I had been craving since we left California.
Fast forward 4 hours: we went to my aunt Barbara's house for my grandmas surprise party. We had decided to stay in the back when she came in so then she would see us after the initial shock of the surprise. At first she just hugged me and moved on. I figured she had found out about us coming so it wasn't too big of a deal. Well 5 minute later it finally hit her that Jace and I were actually here and she went crazy. She kept screaming and hugging me. It was so wonderful. I missed her so much. And I know she was so excited to see Jace. I loved being able to see all of my family and celebrate the most beautiful woman I know.
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