Surprise!

As you should all know by now - all 7 avid readers of my blog - that I turned 30 in May.  I thought after my fun office decorations, along with a surprise dinner party at our house, that the celebrations were over.  Oh, and a cruise planned to celebrate our anniversary and my birthday.

But I was wrong.

My mom, sister-in-law, aunt, and cousins were coming in town the first week of June for a girl's weekend in downtown Fort Worth.  We had done this a couple of years ago for my cousin's 40th birthday in Dallas.  So, obviously, I didn't think anything about celebrating my 30th with them.

This was the view from our hotel room right off of Sundance Square.

We had a great time on Friday night eating yummy Mexican food and walking around downtown. We ended up at Pete's Dueling Pianos and had a great time singing along to all sorts of songs.

Saturday morning we got up and we all got pedicures.  I needed my toes down for the upcoming cruise, because I definitely wanted the obligatory "toes in the sand" picture.  We also had a nice lunch and shopped around for awhile.  At lunchtime my mom told me that they had a surprise dinner planned so we all had to be ready to leave at 6:00 pm.

Little did I know it involved a blindfold.  And a 20 minute car ride that started making me nauseous towards the end.

But we finally arrived at our destination (our church, Wedgwood Baptist) and after a lot of maneuvering up curbs, stairs, and hallways, was surprised by 50+ of my sweet friends. There was yummy food - fajitas, rice, beans, salsa, and a chocolate fountain. There was a scrapbook area where Matt had some of my out-of-town friends send in notes and pictures of us, and then the friends who were at the party were able to write notes to me, too. There was also a photo-booth area where we were able to use props to take fun photos.

It was a great night and so unexpected.  I am so blessed by my friends and especially my sweet hubby.  With all of them by my side, I don't think my 31st year will be too bad.