Surprise party!

On Saturday I was finally able to
letJohn know what I've been up to for the last month. I know there
werequite a few times some things may not have made sense to him that I
wasdoing. Certain things I was buying while out with him I know
didn'tmake sense to him either. I was planning his SURPRISE 30th
birthdayparty for 50 people! It turned out great and really couldn't
ask formore. My friend Nicole helped me out tremendously. I stayed over
her house the night before because we had a bad snowstorm around 10pm,
andthere was no way I could leave because we were making the cake. We
didn't get down until 2:30am! Here is the inspiration photo:

Here is what we came up with:

Pretty
close, yet different. I had a lot of fun. On the way there my hands
literally felt paralyzed. I was giggling to myself and had to tell John
I was thinking of something else. It was so nice to be able to do
something for him. Who knows if I would have waited til the next
milestone birthday if I could do this? I thought of it as, we will
probably have kids by then and will throw them parties and I may
overlook his birthday then. I'm really glad I did this. Everyone will
have great memories, and I got some great pictures. Some of people who
often say "I didn't do my makeup or hair, I can't be in a picture".
People couldn't turn me down then. I loved the time with everyone.
Needs to happen more often.