More Pics of John's Surprise Party

Happy 70th John!!

Ok, while I am finally diving back into blogging...and (gasp) trying to get caught up on about 3 months of fun events, I wanted to take a moment to celebrate the other big birthday we celebrated as a family this fall.

My step-dad John turned 70 in October and we had a SURPRISE party for him here in Minnesota and let's just say it was a big surprise! he thought he was going down to the hotel lobby for a casual dinner, but found about 70 friends and family members waiting for him. He was totally shocked! A few friends came that he hadn't seen in many, many years.

Lindsey, his oldest granddaughter did a great job planning locally while my mom got things together and orchestrated getting him to Minnesota for the weekend from Missouri. In addition to providing the cake, Paul and I were the "excuse," John thinking he was coming to MN to look at a house we were thinking of buying.

Happy 70th Pat!!

Paul's mom turned the big 7-0 on December 11th. I hope I can be as active and look as young when I turn 70! We all went out for a nice birthday brunch on Sunday at Majestic Oaks CC and it happened to be a Breakfast with Santa event so I'll have more pics to post shortly.