What an amazing day we had Ambushing our 4th person for a free day of beauty. Meet Marilyn – we surprised her early this morning at Pamela’s Restaurant in the Strip District where she was enjoying a quiet breakfast with her husband and two children. With the restaurant pretty packed we had to look around but then spotted Paige waving for us with a big smile on her face. After introducing ourselves we informed Marilyn that she was nominated for a deserving day of pampering and that she was coming with us after breakfast for a full day of fun! Needless to say she was a little surprised! Her daughter even said that on the way to Pamela’s she was talking about how much she needed her hair done ~ we couldn’t have planned it better if we tried…LOVE IT.
“I’d like to nominate the most deserving and selfless person in the Steel City: My mom! My mom has been an amazing mother to eight (that’s right eight!!) kids and one grandson for many years! She never does ANYTHING for herself and would SO enjoy getting a make-over. She gave up her career as a special education art teacher after I was born to be a mom! She thought she was done having kids, but six kids later she learned differently! 🙂 In order to give us all the opportunity for private schooling, my mom has taught PRO BONO at a school where she exchanges her teaching gifts for tuition. All eight of us kids are EXTREMELY blessed by her sacrifice.” ~from her daughter, Jaime
The surprise 🙂
Marilyn with one of her EIGHT kids, Paige…she helped us coordinate this and it turned out perfectly, thanks Paige!
Makeover Madness ~
With a complete haircut, color, wax and makeup … we think Marilyn looked great! It was now time to go shopping 🙂
Marilyn was able to get two complete outfits at Target … her kids came together and got her a pre-Mother’s Day gift card for a little shopping spree.
The team of the day (Brooke Rockwell & Julie Marckisotto) with Marilyn ~ Thanks to everyone who made this day go so smooth. Even the strange man behind the desk at the fitting room – you were memorable!
If you know someone who deserves to be our next AMBUSH PITTSBURGH makeover, please email us. We can’t do this without you, so keep them coming!
I’m one of Marilyn’s eight children! I would have been there, but I’m overseas. I just want to thank the entire team for doing this for her! We’ve(me and my siblings) talked about doing something like this for a long long time and I’m sooo glad that we finally did!!
~Tammy Carter
So beautiful…. And yes, so deserving of this treat!