This past Saturday I had a surprise open house for my parents! It was so much fun and I could not have done it without out my wonderful husband and two beautiful aunts (Jolene & Teresa) Thank you guys so much! I know my parents enjoyed every minute of it!
Okay so here is the story its actually kind of funny. So about a month and a half before the BIG day I decided to have a surprise open house and invite family and some close friends to help my parents celebrate their big day! So together with Jolene I created the invites and sent them out to the family! By the way they did a great job at keeping a secret :) Anyways back to the story so I had to tell my mom something so they would not plan anything. I came up with the excuse that I was going to have an open house on March 19, and I wanted them to come and just hang out! At first my mom was totally okay for it and then she started thinking about it and then the quizzing came all the time. She would ask me why that date so I had to be quick on my feet and say it was because Caley (I work with her) is going to have a baby and she wants to come and so I wanted to do it before she had the baby. Then she would keep asking me who all I invited and I said everybody from work and a few of our friends. She seemed to buy it for awhile and then the questions started to really come on so I got the brilliant idea to ask her to help me make the food haha.....she said okay and it totally threw her off our tracks.....it's kind of funny that she made some food for her own party.
Okay so the day arrives and I asked her if she reminded my Dad about the open house and she was like I thought you told him....which I never did because she said she would. So I talked to my Dad and he said we have lived here for 2 years and that he did not need to come to an open house plus basketball was on. So my quick thinking came in handy again I asked if Mom was close and he said kind of....I told him that he needed to keep this a secret that it was a party for him and mom. He said alright what time do we need to be there and that was that! So then later when they arrived to our house and people started to show up my Mom figured it out she was so surprised but she still had a little feeling it was for them haha. Then I later found out when they were driving over my Dad asked my Mom what kind of house warming present she got us....she looked at him weird and said I didn't get anything and so my Dad started to give her a bad time it was so funny.
The evening went fantastic and it was so good to see our family and catch up! I think I am going to have to throw another party just so we can all get together again soon!
