Jesse turned 30

I know this is old news to most, but i've been feeling guilty that I have not posted anything about Jesse's biggest (literally) birthday!  April 9, 2010, Jesse Elies graduated from the twenties to the big, huge,  

30!

I sort of felt like a schmuck the whole week leading up to his birthday as I was trying my hardest to keep his surprise party a surprise.  I was very nonchalant about the whole thing, acting like I hardly cared, like it was no big deal.  All week I kept asking Jess what he wanted to do for his birthday, saying mean things like, "It's your birthday, just pick what you want to do!", or (the day before the party), "Crap, I should probable hire a sitter for your birthday.  Are we going out or something?" Luckily Jess has very few "offended" bones in his body and for the most part I think he cared very little. 

Unfortunately, when so many people are involved it gets very hard to keep all tracks covered.  I finally erased every message in my phone to hide suspicions but that just backfired since Jesse knows I ALWAYS have full inboxes and outboxes.  I also texted his best friend when he was standing right next to Jess.  I thought I was safe, it was 8 in the morning for crying out loud, Jess had just BARELY gone to work!   And the day of the party Jess overheard his dad tell someone that he had a party he was going to that night.

(We had a mini family party the night before.  Jesse isn't really a cake eater so he got a pile of cookies!)

When it was actually time to go to my mom's house (where the party was, but where Jess thought we were dropping the kids off to be babysat), Jess was pretty suspicious.  He knew something  was going on, just not what.  I did at least have him fooled about the babysitting since he really did think we were just going to drop the kids off, so he was still surprised to walk into the back yard to see all of our family and closest friends.

We eventually had to make our way into the house since our crazy spring allowed very little time to enjoy the weather.  It got very cold!

 (click on this picture to enlarge it and check out Jayci's face! :)

Here's our little sweet-toothed girl leaning in to lick the frosting. (We missed the picture with her tongue out, but that's exactly what she was trying to do.)  I think Kayli foresaw the situation and was prepared!

Thanks again to all of our awesome and amazing friends and family for coming and making the night great!