Birthday Surprises

Sorry for my weekend sabbatical. I have a lot to catch up on and not a lot of time to do it. I guess I can go back to Wednesday. Katie and I were supposed to be painting and cleaning the Townhouse that night. I drove all the way up there and got a call from her sister Mindy saying she needed someone to watch her kids while she did some cleaning... When I called Katie to tell her she was all about going straight down there. It seemed a little bit odd, and irritated me a bit because we have so much to do, but I dismissed it without much thought.

Thursday night I found out what she had been doing. It was all part of her plan, which worked, to have a surprise party for my 30th birthday. We went to my aunt and uncle's house for what I thought was dinner with them, but it turned out to be friends and family there to surprise me. Katie's folks even drove all the way up from Malad! It was a good time that left me feeling pretty bad since I had been kind of ticked about the whole babysitting thing the night before.

We have not gotten much done on the house this week because of all the partying we have been doing. Katie's present to me was an adventure all day Saturday. We started at Home Depot to buy paint for the Townhouse, then went to the army surplus store for some ammo cans I wanted to put tools in. Next we went to Blackfoot for massages. After that we went to Pocatello and did some more shopping for the house and watched Clash of the Titans in 3D. Our next stop was Lava Hot Springs and then we ended the night with dinner at Applebee's. We were gone for about 12 hours total.