Matt’s Surprise 40th Birthday Party…

From 2008-10-18 40th Birthday Party

Well, Mommy did it!! She wanted to surprise Daddy with a 40th Birthday party and has spent weeks planning and scheming and keeping secrets and last night was the big party.  Thanks to Jim, Maureen and the boys for coming up with a reason for Daddy to get out of the house. Jim had a geocache that he wanted to find at Triad Park so Daddy readily agreed to help them out.

Of course this wasn’t the first plan. Tallmonster had his last football game yesterday and was originally scheduled for 2:30 and would have ended right around 5 which is what time the party was scheduled. Well, Mommy found out on Thursday night at practice that the game had been moved to 1 pm. So after a frantic call to Jim (he was going to go to the game and then come over for dinner/party) he came up with the geocache idea. It was perfect! The only bad thing was they left the house at 4 and the party was scheduled for 5. Thanks to the help of Maureen, Tara and Ginnie we decorated the house in record time with streamers (red and blue Giants colors) balloons and signs.

Daddy had no idea the party was going to happen and was surprised when he walked in the door. He was a little miffed that Jim wouldn’t let him get a beer out of the fridge in the garage before he went in the house though! Good thing because he would have noticed that it went from being pretty empty to stocked full of beer! We had 5 couples and kids from the neighborhood and it turned out to be a great night. Mommy is glad its over and even happier that it was a Surprise!!!