On Thursday September 24th I turned 40! The day was fairly quiet. I went to work where we had a great luncheon. All of my co-workers brought in food for a Nacho Bar at my request. Jeff came and ate with us. I got off work early to go to a volleyball game. My teams both lost which was a bummer. Then Jeff and the girls and I went out to eat at Texas Roadhouse. It was a late night to bed, on a school night!
On Saturday I cleaned up the house a bit, and got groceries and then from 2-5 Jeff and I had a meeting at church. When we got home and I walked into the house I walked in to a HUGE surprise! Jeff had planned and plotted and thrown me a huge surprise party. About 50 people were crammed into my living room and sun room and screamed SURPRISE when I walked into the house. I was truly surprised. Everyone kept asking me if I had any "inkling" and I truly had NO idea! I guess for over a week Jeff just plotted and planned to put it all together. It seems there was quite a lot of "lying" going on so I wouldn't know anything. He did such a great job. He thought of every thing: food, decorations, getting everyone here at the right time, hiding the decorations, even giving Mikayla the instructions to tell everyone to park down around the corner so I wouldn't see their cars when we drove up! I truly appreciated all his hard work! OH AND, he also put together (with help) a slide show set to music of my life, from my baby pictures to the present. It was really touching and wonderful.
During the hustle and bustle of my party I actually took some time to look around at the faces of those there. I had my parents there, my husband and children, friends from church, and the girls school and also work. All in all I just looked around the felt BLESSED with great people in my life no matter how or why they were there. All friends that I feel blessed to walk this journey of life with. Friends that I know have my back, and I have theirs. They all bring great joy and love into my life and I am glad they are a part of it.
Thanks to my husband for his love for me. I have celebrated 18 birthdays with him and look forward to celebrating many more.
P.S. "Jeff- you broke our promise that we made A LONG time ago to plan NO surprise parties for each other! Tsk, Tsk...." :)
1 comment:
It sounds just wonderful, wish we could have been there. Tell Jeff if he invited us, maybe we would have surprised you! Just kidding, though I may have flown out alone to see you. Wish so much we could have been there. Glad you had a great one. What a lot of work, good for you Jeff.
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