Sunday, August 17th, 2008... My mom's 60th birthday surprise party finally happens! Good thing we only really started planning it about 3 weeks before hand, I don't think I could have taken the stress much longer! Actually, it wasn't that bad before her birthday... once her birthday passed and it kind of seemed like we hadn't made a very big deal about it since we were saving the big deal for Sunday, that part was the hardest! Anyway, she seemed pretty surprised! I think she guessed something was going on but she didn't know who was going to be here and all that we were up to. My Aunt Sheri and John were here with Kimber (Tami's little girl who was visiting them), Bob and Gloria, Pat, then the Lambs came, Aunt Cindy and Uncle Jim, Hannah (and her friend), Jessica, Erik and Bret and of course Grandma. We had a Mexican Fiesta theme going on so we had carne asada street tacos and beans and to make it totally authentic every fly in the neighborhood showed up as well! (UGH!) Oh, and MARGARITAS! The reason we went with the Mexican theme is because my brothers and I (and spouses) gave mom a 5 night cruise to Baja Mexico for her birthday! She has been wanting to go on a cruise for so long... the best part? I get to go with her! The cruise is in one month and I (we) am so excited! I have never been on a cruise either. Anthony is totally excited to take a week off of work to stay home with the boys and I am looking forward to that part too! ;-)
