SURPRISE....well, kinda.....

**I have been a little behind on blogging and when you read this post you will see why! Planning Hubby's 40th has taken every bit of spare time I have**

For a little over a month I have been planning a surprise party for Hubby's 40th birthday. Everything was going great until I had to tell Hubby he was having a party. Well, had I not told him he would have found out anyway because one of his co-workers that changed jobs did not delete the email so he saw it when he was cleaning up that guys computer.

We had so much fun! I think Hubby was still somewhat surprised. I invited two of his friends from back home he has been friends with at least since highschool if not before and they were both in our wedding as well. One was able to come with his wife but the other one had to work. Hubby's mom and dad came along with his sister and her kids. Dear friends of ours came and almost all Hubby's coworkers were here along with several of our neighbors. We had at least 47 people including us which I thought was a great turnout!!

Sunday morning we skipped church because I had a breakfast planned for all the people that had come from back home.  Hubby's family stayed here with us and his friends stayed in a hotel so I thought it would be fun for all of them to get to spend time together since I knew they would not get much time to chat at the party.

It was quite a busy week and weekend getting everything ready! I had so many things planned to do that I just never got around to. It is very hard planning a semi-surprise party by yourself when you are taking care of an almost 11 month old at the time all day. I did get through all the pictures.

On Saturday several of my friends came over to help me get ready and help with the Princess. I am so thankful for friends that are always there to help out no matter what! I was probably recruiting them a month ago just so they would have it on their calendar because like I said before I just can't get much done during the day with the Princess!!

Thanks to my friend Jen we have lots of pictures from the party. (She is also going to take the pictures at the Princess birthday party). Had it not been for her I would have been lucky to have 5 pictures I was so busy doing so many other things!! Here are some pictures from Saturday night!  Now, she took over 100 pictures so there is just no way I can post all of them:)....I may post more though in a few other post later.

A night out and a babysitter.......

A few weeks ago I had gone to Hubby's office for a birthday party for one of the ladies there and found out that we all had tickets to go see Wicked last night! They ask me if I would get a babysitter for the Princess because she could not go. I called my friend Gretchen to see if she could watch her for us and she could so we were able to go!

We dropped the Princess off at Gretchen's around 5:30 and we left there around 5:45. We made it to dinner with Hubby's co-workers in time (we thought we might be a little late for that) and then got to see the musical. It was great! I stayed awake the whole time:). Ok, the inside joke to that is anytime I am very still for any length of time these days I seem to fall asleep. I am guessing I will catch up on my sleep in about 18 - 20 years!!

Gretchen sent me a picture of the Princess while she was playing and a couple of text messages to let us know she was doing fine. She was asleep when we picked up her up and she even stayed asleep when we got home and Hubby put her down in her bed!!

It was a fun night! The picture above is the picture that Gretchen sent me during the night to show me the Princess was having a good time!!!

Memorial Day!

Last week was a very busy week around here! Lots and lots of cleaning and throwing stuff away! We now have a pile of stuff hubby has to take to the dump, a pile for goodwill and then we have thrown alot of stuff in the trash, oh yes, and a shred pile to. I was so glad this was a long weekend because Hubby really helped alot over the weekend and Monday! I will be posting soon why all I have been doing lately is CLEANING, CLEANING, CLEANING!

Monday afternoon we took a break from our cleaning and went to a friends house for a Memorial Day Party. They just got their pool finished so we lathered the Princess down in sunscreen and stopped and picked up some "little swimmers" and let her play in the pool. She had so much fun! I could not believe how much she liked it!! Hubby wanted me to put her in swimming lessons this summer and after seeing how much fun she had playing in the pool I may just have to do that.

You can also see in the pictures she has on a little two piece. That was one of the baby gifts from my friend Susie. Doesn't she look cute!

Here are a few more pictures of her from Monday!