My mom and my sister Christa enjoying the evening.
My brother-in-law Wade, my aunt Judy and my mom are all smiles after the good food!
My dad and I sharing a laugh
Morgan hanging out with her uncle Seth.
Packet #2 was stapled to the underside of the table. The next clue sent her home to get cleaned up, when she got there packet #3 was waiting on the bathroom counter.
Clue #3 took her to Boesen the Florist, where she had flowers and another packet waiting for her.
Clue #4 sent her to the Johnston Soccer Complex, she needed to make 2 out of 5 penalty kicks.
Joni was the goalie.
Action shot!
She only scored 1 out of 5, so Joni and Kim imposed a penalty of 25 push-ups.
Clue #5 included side-walk chalk.
and took her to the Vocelka's driveway where she played hangman.
Plenty of time for a quick "senior" picture pose.
Heather with the finished puzzle.
After completing the hangman puzzle, she received her next clue, #6, which took her to Hubbell Elementary where she had to cross the monkey bars and then...
...slide down the slide.
Oh what fun!
Playing on the rock wall
Clue #7 took her to Ashbey Park, to the tennis courts, where she had to win a match...
...against Kim
After tennis, Heather was blindfolded and driven around town.
Kim guiding Heather and enjoying some payback. Heather and Joni planned a surprise party for Kim's birthday a few weeks ago, so Kim was more than happy to repay the favor!
After all the clues, they ended up back at our house for a BBQ. We sang happy birthday and I made a birthday cake for the birthday girl.
Miya helping Heather celebrate her big day.
Sarah, Jill, Heather and Laura celebrating Heather's birthday, Heather missed the grey memo.
The Faircloth's rode their motorcycle's to the party, Heather is hoping to get one of those padded jackets for her birthday next year!
Even Coco and Riley helped Heather celebrate her big day!
Challenges complete, Heather put her puzzle together, "Happy Bird-Day"!
It turned out to be a great surprise party and all the planning and preparation was worth it to celebrate my beautiful wife on her special day!
Here we are shortly after the finish of the race, apparently our plan worked great because we finished in 1st place with a time of 57.45.
We had some tough competition in Ryan and Ben, they finished second around 59 mins. Pictured from left to right, Ryan, Matt, myself and Ben.
Ryan and Ben trying to relive high school glory days, we snapped a quick senior picture pose. They get the "A" for effort award, Ryan was even bleeding trying to keep up with us.
Matt and I receiving our 1st place trophies! These are some rare photo's because Matt can be seen actually wearing running shorts instead of his usual basketball attire!
All smiles after the race.
All that said, I checked two more off my list last night. After I get done with a run, I do push-ups and sit-ups and last night marked 10,000 for both!
Heather and Karys playing on the swings, say "Cheese"
After the swings, they headed over to the merry-go-round, that was a big hit!
Karys was having so much fun, she invited her sister Gracie and Cousin Nathan to come play with her.
Nathan teaching the girls how to dangle your legs.
Let's share a smile.
Share a kiss.
Even Riley got to come out for family pictures, but we didn't put her in jeans and a white top.
We played so hard at the playground that Shay got tired she couldn't make it back to the car and needed a ride.
Group pictures were a lot of fun. After the photo shoot was over we headed back to Chad and Shay's, the kids took naps and some of the adults too. Heather and I got changed and headed to a wedding. One of her friends from high school was getting married. Heather was excited to go because two of her good friends were also attending the wedding. Here is the former Tulip Court, Amy, Heather and Sarah, reunited to celebrate the wedding of the former tulip queen Hillary(not pictured).
Check it out, when we try, we clean up pretty well!
After the wedding we headed back to hang out a little more with the gang and watch some Olympics and then it was back home. Sunday we had everyone over to our house for lunch. We cooked kabobs on the grill and had corn on the cob. A biggest hit of the afternoon was the "Miracle Bubbles" that Grandma Doreen brought.
Excitement in every bubble as they floated to the ground.
Try to catch them before they pop.
Nathan was so excited he could hardly contain himself or he was trying to eat the bubbles.
Grandma Doreen and Gracie showing us how it is done.
Nathan says, "I can help"
Grandma remembered she had her bubble machine in the car, that brought everyone out to the yard for some bubble time!
