Friday, January 18, 2008

The BIG 40

I can't believe I'm married to an old man! We recently celebrated Darren's 40th with a dinner out to Robintino's with his parents. Afterwards we went to their house where we had a yummy chocolate mousse cake from Parson's Bakery. (This is Jan's favorite bakery. We think she spends a large chunk of her retirement money on this place. She buys enough cookies and sweets to feed an army. Unfortunately her army consists of only herself and Don. This means a lot of leftover goodies for the grandkids and the adult kids!)


Viewmont Elementary also celebrated Darren's milestone. All the staff members dressed in black. They decorated his door with a picture of the teachers on one side of a hill and Darren dropping over the other side (He is "Over the Hill"---In case you didn't get it!). The cook made a coffin cake. Darren estimates that over 200 kids sang Happy Birthday to him! You can't beat that.

As far as Darren thought, that was it for celebrations. However, I had a secret birthday party in the works. With the help of the girls and a couple of neighborhood friends, I was able to pull it off without Darren even having a clue.

The theme was the 60's. We were all supposed to dress in 60's attire, but at the last minute decided to dress in black as finding 60's outfits was too difficult to do! My friend Lisa prepared chocolate and cheese fondue with lots of yummy dipping things. Our friend Brian provided the entertainment with the use of his Wii and Guitar Hero game. I made all of the guests a top 20 hits of 1968 CD.

To get Darren out of the house, Addy told him that he needed to take her on a daddy-daughter date to the bowling alley. As soon as they left Delaney and I frantically prepared the house, Lisa made the food, and the guests started to arrive. I have to say that when Darren walked in and we yelled "Surprise!" I felt quite proud of the fact that I had kept the whole thing secret. (For those of you that know me----keeping secrets is hard!)

We had a great night celebrating the birth of a great guy!



Surprise! A look of astonishment!

Darren rocking with Guitar Hero!



Donnie was "on fire" with his guitar solo!

3 comments:

Jeremy said...

D1,
You rocked the house on Guitar Hero! Even sitting down you were Mr. Cool.
Happy bday my man, here's to many more.
JB

Lisa said...

Wow. My husband knows how to leave comments? I had no idea!

Anyway, fabulous party. Always fun to be with our wonderful neighbors.

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