My husband is FULL of surprises!

Yesterday was my birthday, and boy do I have a story behind it haha. 

Let's start from the beginning, Monday night.  Ken ignored me ALL night, not just not talked to me, didn't even realize I wasn't in the room with him... for 3 hours!!!  Apparently I was slightly emotional anyways because this bothered me, A LOT. Needless to say, I couldn't keep my mouth shut and let him know how I feel, tears and all.  I was hurt and VERY angry.  We fought until, ehh 2am? Then I got sick about 4am.  So by the time I'm waking up about 6:30 for work I feel run over by a MACK truck. 

All I can think of was "And I was worried about 30?  I think I'll skip 29 if this is the way it is gonna be!!"  It was horrible for sure.  Work was not too bad and I got so many birthday wishes on Facebook it was sweet!  Each one made the day a little better and a little better.  Oh, I forgot to mention - our washing machine broke this weekend - and we were out of jeans and towels, so I had to go to mom's to wash clothes... ON MY BIRTHDAY!!! So I wasn't looking forward to any of day. At all.

So I call Ken on the way home from work, and he tells me he doesn't think he's going with me to mom's to do clothes.  At this point I can't believe it, he fights with me AND doesn't want to be with me on my birthday while I'm having to work!? 

When I get home I find that he has washed all the jeans and all the towels!! And he offers to take me out to eat, nice!  He offers to take me to La Hacienda, which would be great, if I hadn't had ate Taco Bell for lunch.  I tried to talk him into something else... but he looked sad, I figured he wanted his steak (his fav thing from there) so I gave in. 

We walk into the restaurant, and into the room.... SURPRISE!!! 

My arguing, fighting, meanness of a husband has successfully organized a surprise party for me!!!! He had gotten about 35 of our family and friends together for this surprise birthday dinner!!  He had orchestrated EVERYTHING, including the fights. 

The story behind the need for the fights... I'm a very observant person and I have a habit of ruining any surprise that someone tries to do.  I have a habit of finding out what my presents are and everything, not on purpose I've just got nose problems (nosey) as my father in law puts it lovingly haha.  So Ken got me so mad that I couldn't think of anything else, therefore I didn't notice the little things like "why does he all of a sudden want to go out" or "why are Ben & Amanda AND Mama & Pops BOTH gone?" 

I am very proud of my husband for pulling this off, it was a WONDERFUL surprise and I'm glad he loved me enough to work that hard for me!

May Bike Trip

I never knew how much fun could be had on a mountain vacation with a total of 14 people!  It was such a blast, I don't think I've laughed so much in such a long time.  We went with the biker group at church Assembled by Faith.  We had 8 bikes and 10 bikers.  Ken & I and Josh & Jamie were ride a-longs (with CiCi and David). 

My favorite part of the trip was the early mornings by the fire pit drinking coffee and talking.

We rode the Dragon's Tail (the 8 bikes, Ken, me, CiCi and David in the car, and Josh and Jamie in the truck) on Friday.  It was VERY curvy.  I think it was something like 312 curves in 11 miles and some of them were complete 90 degree turns!!! We stopped at "Deals Gap" before we got on it to get shirts, and take photos!

On Saturday we took some time to build some memories with friends.  We went on a hiking trip we will never forget with Josh & Jamie.  We went to a trail we found online stating it was an "easy to moderate" we were on a mission for some hiking and most importantly waterfalls!! However, we got off track some where along the way and ended up on a straight trek UPhill.  All I could think was "THIS is easy to moderate?" When we finally got to a point that Ken and Josh had to pull themselves up the hill with the trees, Jamie and I gave up haha.  We were done for!!  At the top of the trail the guys found 3 graves, and the trail ends suddenly.  Anyone who knows me knows my mind went to all the reasons they could be there, bears, serial killers, the last crazy people that thought they should take this route, etc.  We found out later that it was some settlers that used to live there before it became part of Smoky Mountain National Park and the children had passed.  It was a great trip with wonderful memories I do not think we will ever forget!

 

 

It was definitely a trip that I will never forget.  The memories are forever, which is good, because there are too many to blog about!!