On Saturday, August 24th, we had a surprise birthday party for Mitchell. Brent and Grant took Mitchell to go to the movies to see "White House Down." Afterward, they went to Harbor Freight to look at rows and rows of tools and man toys. Perry and I decorated the house and set up the food for the party while they were gone.
Mitchell walked through the door and was greeted by Perry, Kingsleigh, Diann, Grandma Fern, Amy, Robby, Madison, Marshall, Jacob, Natalie, Ethan, Logan, Harrison, Ryan, Sloan, Chloe and me. Later on Julie, Jordan and Maeleigh joined in the fun.
He looked shocked to see not just family but to also see some of his friends surprising him that Saturday evening.
Grant, Mitchell, Harrison and Kingsleigh. (For some reason both of my pictures of this group turned out blurry.)
The party included homemade chicken chimichangas, homemade bacon ranch chicken taquitos, black beans, refried beans, taco meat, nacho cheese sauce, chips and all the fixin's to go with it. YUM!
Grant is almost as tall as Mitchell. Who will be taller when Grant turns 20?
Perry did an incredible job on decorations. She filled lots of balloons with helium which covered the new ceiling in our family room. We left the floor wide open for all of the little kids to play.
Time for gifts. Mitchell is laughing at the joke in the card from Diann.
Logan was playing with Max. It was pretty cute. Notice that Max is as far away as he can get from the adorable Logan.
Robby and Madison wanted their picture taken so bad that they were willing to do anything to get caught by the camera.
When Mitchell opened this gift from Brent, no one knew what it was except Mitchell. He was excited to get this chain guard for his motorcycle.
I gave Mitchell a couple of dress shirts and ties. Perry and Mitchell like to dress up and go out to dinner. He will look pretty sharp in his new shirts when he takes his wife out on the town.
The biggest gift surprise of the night was the gun from Brent. Mitchell was stoked! He had been wanting a gun for a while. While I am typing this up, Brent, Mitchell and Grant are off in the desert trying it out. Jacob said he wants Brent to get him one for his birthday too. :)
I love snapping pictures of our fake twins Marshall and Maeleigh. They are 11 months old. In a few weeks we will be celebrating their one year birthday. It is still mind boggling that these two kids were born on the same day, in the same hospital a few hours apart my my darling sisters who had due dates 3 weeks apart! Awesome!
Harrison brought Mitchell's delicious birthday cake. I tried to get a picture of Mitchell blowing out the candles; however, he never bent over to blow them out. He did it while he was standing straight up. My camera was already set and focused on him getting close to the cake. So the picture that I have is of his torso in front of a cake with the candles blown out (lame).
It's hard to believe that on August 28th it will be 20 years since he was born.
He has grown quite a bit from when he arrived in the world at 8 pounds, 21 inches long. He is still as sweet, kind, loving, and fun to be around as he was back then. I am pretty lucky to be his mom. Love you Mitchell!!!!
