Mom's Surprise 50th Party!

On June 10th, my BEAUTIFUL, AMAZING mother turned 50! I know right? She hardly looks it. Anyways, several months ago I began preparations to plan her a surprise party.
The preparations began with a custom invite done by my dear friend, Jenna, at QA designs (see her button down on my sidebar):

Then my dad and I compiled the invite list. I mailed these puppies out and sure enough we had quite the turn out. Meanwhile, Paul was gathering pictures from family members to put together a slideshow of my mom's 50 years of life. It was INCREDIBLE.... full of laughter and tears. Of course it included a segment of my mom's MANY hair-do's and a special surprise...a video message from my brother, Skyler (who is still on his mission in England- for only 2 more months!)

I still think it is pretty awesome that my mom had NO IDEA. We took her out to dinner- our whole fam- to the Olive Garden while her bff, Karrie Denton, was back at the house setting up and ushering the guests in. After dinner, my siblings and I ran home, while dad distracted her by stopping at Wal-mart to pick up some "things". We had a look out and once we saw the car heading down our street we all huttled together in the family room. As previously arranged, mom came in through the garage and she actually passed the entrance into the kitchen/family room, but when she turned around we all yelled, "SURPRISE". She was so overwhelmed, she covered her eyes with her hands and started to cry. (The surprise also scared Maylee into tears). My whole goal in doing the party was to make my mom feel special and loved, like we all know she is. I think it was a success!

Thank you to all who came and pitched in to get things chopped, and set up! Thank you for coming, for loving my mom and making her 50th birthday one to remember!

Thank you also to my sweet husband, Paul, who spent countless hours on a masterpiece. The video made many speechless and most definitely made the party!

Thank you also to Brother Pearce for all the pictures and of course Dad who paid for it all!

Here we all are at Olive Garden for dinner...Mom TOTALLY thought this was the extent of her birthday celebration....little did she know!

What a beautiful couple huh?
29 years of marriage and still happily in love.
For her birthday, dad gave her the most beautiful card and she gets a new wedding ring (since her diamond was given to Brooke...sweet story- check out Ryan and Brooke's blog to read details)

Mom and Grandma.

The newlyweds....thanks for making sure you were back from your honeymoon in time to be apart of the great evening celebrating Mom.

Grubbing on some delicious Olive Garden.

Here's the evening in pictures:

Can you tell Maylee was still getting over the shock of us yelling out "SURPRISE!"?

Mom greeting all her guests who came to show their love.

Of course many in attendance HAD to watch the Laker game. Haha.

Love my mama.

We served fruits, chips and dip, cookies, brownies, lemon cake, the works, and thanks to my bff for making 4 pans of striped delight for dessert. It was AMAZING!

We played one game... "How well do you know Kimbur?" It was 20 questions and the winners, Jana and Rachelle Smedley, got to partake in an assortment of mom's favorite candies!

The camera man...he is SO HOT!

Mom blew out all 50 of her candles on her melting ice cram cake that KARRIE forgot to put in the freezer...ha ha. Love you girl. She also made her wish out loud that her next 50 years be filled with as many amazing friends as her last 50 years have. So sweet :)

Watching the video.

Special message from Skyler, on his mission.

THE END!

Happy 50th Birthday Mom... I love you, Always and Forever