I pulled it off!!
The SURPRISE Birthday party for Marc that is (his birthday isn't until November 27). And for those of you who know me that is a BIG deal because I get so excited about birthdays, Christmas and surprises that I tend to blow it. But this time, I did it!! I totally surprised him, I had to lie out my teeth to do it but I did it! Can you tell I'm proud of myself? 
At 4:40 p.m. I sent Marc and Rachel to Papa Murphy's to pick up 3 pizzas and an order of bread sticks. How did I get him to get all of that without being suspicious? Well I told him that I had invited a couple over for dinner and games, and that I didn't want to make dinner on Sunday so we would just got a lot of pizza. He was like okay, that's cool. After they left I ran around like crazy pulling out all of the decorations. My heart was POUNDING, I was so nervous and excited. Our friends showed up and we all hid when Marc and Rachel came back with the pizza. Marc walked into the room and was like "is this my birthday party?" He thought I had decorated just for the 4 of us until our friends jumped out and said SURPRISE! Marc was excited, Rachel started screaming and crying and poor Benjamin got freaked out too. After calming them down we started the party. 
Now what I didn't know when I planned the party was that it was the big Utah vs. BYU football game. I know, I know, how could I NOT know? Well I didn't. But it worked out just fine. The boys watched the game downstairs and the girls chatted upstairs. So it kind of turned out to be a surprise birthday party, a football party and girls night all in one. We had super yummy pizza and delicious cake and ice cream. Rachel's favorite part of the entire evening was playing with the balloons. At one point she had gathered them all by there strings and was bouncing them up and down. The strings got SO tangled that it took a few minutes for me to get them apart.
Here is the Birthday cake. I had this great idea to make it like his very 1st birthday cake. It turned out pretty darn good I think. When I brought it out to him with the candles he looked a little confused as to why I was giving an almost 30 year old a dog birthday cake. But afterward I told him why I did that one and his words were "Wow, that was very thoughtful, I wouldn't have thought about doing that." So in the end I think he liked it. Oh and as a side note: When you put coconut on a cake it tends to fly when you blow out the candles!!
At 4:40 p.m. I sent Marc and Rachel to Papa Murphy's to pick up 3 pizzas and an order of bread sticks. How did I get him to get all of that without being suspicious? Well I told him that I had invited a couple over for dinner and games, and that I didn't want to make dinner on Sunday so we would just got a lot of pizza. He was like okay, that's cool. After they left I ran around like crazy pulling out all of the decorations. My heart was POUNDING, I was so nervous and excited. Our friends showed up and we all hid when Marc and Rachel came back with the pizza. Marc walked into the room and was like "is this my birthday party?" He thought I had decorated just for the 4 of us until our friends jumped out and said SURPRISE! Marc was excited, Rachel started screaming and crying and poor Benjamin got freaked out too. After calming them down we started the party. 
Here is the Birthday cake. I had this great idea to make it like his very 1st birthday cake. It turned out pretty darn good I think. When I brought it out to him with the candles he looked a little confused as to why I was giving an almost 30 year old a dog birthday cake. But afterward I told him why I did that one and his words were "Wow, that was very thoughtful, I wouldn't have thought about doing that." So in the end I think he liked it. Oh and as a side note: When you put coconut on a cake it tends to fly when you blow out the candles!! 
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You did it! What a fun party. See ya in three days!
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