What a Surprise!!!

I've been meaning to blog about  my Surprise Party that Jesse had put together last weekend. I just have to say up front that I have the most amazing man any woman could ever dream of. He's beyond words.

 

Where to begin? Hmm. Well lets start with Wed Jan 6th. I had been working all day. Jesse was home with the boys. He was actually on his 6 day break. So he was being Mr. Mom while I was working. I get home and he's cooking dinner (Another thing that makes him so great). While we are talking he says to me.

 

"Remember how we are getting a new Battalion Chief?"

"Yes"

"Well some of the firemen want to go to dinner with the old Battalion Chief."

"Ok. that sounds fun. When are they going?"

"This Saturday."

"Ok.... Oh wait, we are suppose to talk in Sacrament meeting this Sunday. That's kinda rough going out the night before."

"I know. But it'll be ok. We'll get our talks done before. I'll help you."

 

Still I was feeling worried about getting it done. I was working late every night that week. Plus we had Cy's preschool program on Friday. And then Saturday was the "dinner" with the Firemen. 

 

Anyway, later that night Jesse was sitting on the couch with his laptop. I had grabbed something that was by him and caught glance of his screen. Chik-fil-a Catering was up.

"Why are you looking at Chik-fil-a catering?"

Jesse replied "Oh I was on fb and a link popped up."

 

At first I didn't think anything of it, but then I started to wonder if we were really going to dinner on Saturday with the fireman. Hmmm.

 

A little while later I had to grab something out of the truck and I saw there was a black poster in the back seat. Wondering what that was for I asked Jesse about it. He told me had spent the day with his mom helping her with a Stake YW project.

 

Oh ok.

 

Thursday night came and I was upstairs feeding Fynn before putting him in bed. Because the way our house is set up you can hear everything downstairs almost perfectly. So I hear Ryker say something to Jesse about Chik-fil-a..... then I hear "OWWWW" from Ryker.

 

Haha, ok that confirmed my suspicions. Jesse was up to something. But I wasn't sure what.

 

Friday we went to Cy's program.

 

Then Saturday came. Jesse told me he would be picking me up at 5:00 when I was done with my last client. Late that morning I got a text from my last client, Wendy telling me she wasn't able to make it. So now I was going to be done at 4:30. I figured I would just freshen up at the salon while I waited for Jesse to pick me up.

 

My last client was actually Emily, Sterling and Evie. While she was there I had mentioned to Emily that I thought Jesse had something planned for me that night (not knowing that she's in on the whole thing as well). She played along great. But when I mentioned she was my last client, I guess she panicked. She took Sterling to the bathroom and while she was back there she called Heidi and Jesse to tell them I was suspicious and that I was getting done before planned.

 

I guess they tried to come up with a plan to get me to stay longer. Emily wanted to have me cut Andrew's hair because he got done with work early. Feeling guilty that I couldn't, I told her I was having Bria style my hair for me and I didn't want to make Brian stay later than she already was.

 

I guess Jesse tried calling Wendy to get her to tell me she was coming but then change her mind again. She didn't answer but he left her a voicemail. They were all sooooo worried I would come home early. But I was just planning on staying at the salon until Jesse came to get me.

 

When he finally arrived I asked him where we were going to dinner. He told me we were going down town.

 

????? I was so confused. This whole time I thought we were going to Ogden.

 

He was acting super strange and secretive. Maybe that was the whole point? He took me to Blue Lemon in City Creek and told me we were getting an appetizer there.

 

??????Hmmm ok. I asked him if we were doing a dine around kind of thing? Going from restaurant to restaurant getting each course. He said yes.

 

Ok, this sounds like fun.

 

After we eat our $3 appetizer we walked back to the truck. As we were pulling out of the parking garage Jesse starts to look through his wallet. Then he's frantically looking through his coat pocket trying to find something. I asked him if he lost something. He said Maybe.

 

I asked him (still wondering what's going on) where the next stop was for dinner. All he told me was dinner was "up North." Alrighty then.

 

He then makes a phone call to his mom who was at our house babysitting the boys for us.

"Hey Mom, is there a gift certificate paper printed out on the desk?....... Oh good, I was started to worry that I lost it." He gets off the phone and tells me we need to stop by at home to pick it up. Sounds good,

 

As we are pulling up our street he asks me if I wanted to come inside to say goodnight to Fynn. I like to put him in bed at night so I can see why he would ask me this, But I was feeling hungry and didn't want to get stuck at home. I expressed my feelings about that and he just told me we had a minute before we needed to be to the next place. So I told him I'd go in.

 

He opens the door... pushes me inside..... aaaaand......... SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Our living room was filled with tons of people. He TRULY surprised me. Even though I was expecting something to happen, the way he went about it totally caught me off guard and I wasn't expecting there to be tons of people in my house.

I got so many hugs and loves from everyone and several of the people couldn't stay very long. Matter of fact they said hello and then left. So I regret not being able to get pictures of the whole group of people that were there. Oh well. It'll be in my thoughts and memories.

This is my dear friend Hillary whom I went to Beauty School with. We don't see each other very often due to our busy lives. But she is one of those friends when we do see each other it's like we didn't miss a beat.

Steph and Angie Mayo. Well Step Conover and Angie Ratliff. But they will forever me known as the Mayo twins to me. I went to high school with these 2 cuties.

This was one surprise that shocked me, I was impressed Jesse remembered Amber Prince from beauty school. I have only seen her 2 times in the past 10 years, so it was really great seeing her.

Jesse had help from his mom decorating. They went to the effort to get pictures of me throughout my life and hung them from the balloons.

The table of sweets was so pretty decorated with things of gold and white. The table adjacent to it had Chik-fil-a catering all set up on it. Haha. The pieces had come together.

I loved this part. Pictures of me on a letter A. Heidi told me that when she was making this she was tending Sterling. He told her that she forgot to put Cyrus on there. Haha. He thought the baby pictures were Ryker and Fynnick. Proves those 2 really look alike and that they look like me,

My brother Tyson made the banner.

My good friend Candice was there as well. Again I'm super bummed I didn't think to get more pictures of everyone who was there.

And of course the man who pulled it all off. He had thought of everything. There were 2 babysitters there for those who brought their kids. In the basement he had set up a TV for them to watch movies, a room with toys and a coloring station. He had prizes for the games that we played. Honestly, I was just blown away by all the effort that he went to just for me. He truly made me feel loved. SOOOO Loved.

Another thing that I learned was that he went to the effort to make a digital invitation and sent it out. I couldn't believe he thought of that as well. I was blown away by everything that he did. He had taken weeks to prepare all this. He told me that night that he was so excited about it. And if anyone were to ruin it he would have killed them.

I will forever remember what an awesome party he put together for me. I have been blessed with the best husband. Thank you Jesse for loving me and being so good to me. I love you!