Mary had mentioned, at one time, after seeing one of her TV shows’ characters have one, that she wanted to have a surprise party for her next birthday.  I told her that we cannot plan it that way or else, it would not be a surprise.  She would just have to wait and see and maybe there would be a surprise party for her someday.

Well, since we were moving and leaving her friends a couple of months before her birthday, I thought about having a party for her with her friends so she would not miss out on one this year.

 And I planned it to be a surprise for her.

I started this blog post, a couple of weeks ago and got as far as that last sentence.  What will all the moving and packing for Iowa and getting ready for our Philippine trip, I did not have much time to post.

I checked out Jack’s blog and he has a post about this event. http://jackbergstrom.com/2008/04/24/an-early-farewell-to-colorado/ Thanks, hon!