Happy Anersary

October 24th was a big day - it was my in-laws' 40th wedding anniversary! Mucho kudos to them! So, like any good children, we got my father-in-law in on the plan, louring them over to our house with the guise of Mike and I taking them to dinner to celebrate and scaring the crap out of my mother-in-law with the rest of the family waiting to yell "SURPRISE" to them. Mike, his siblings and myself are apparently great schemers (something to add to the resume) because my lovely mother-in-law, Betsy, was truly surprised.

It was a great night celebrating the monumental event with the family. There was a ridiculous amount of food (you'd think we thought our family was about 4 times the size it was with the buffet we laid out), drinks galore, old pictures to look over, good company and general merriment. Also, even though it was dark, it was the first time at our place that we let the kids go out back (ALL the kids, including Dylan who was in the care of his cousin, Emily) and play while the adults all stayed inside and chatted. Fun was had by all!

Oh, and I suppose the blog title deserves some explanation. No it's not a typo it's intentional. Hours into the event, my observant brother-in-law, Jim, noticed that the banner Mike and I hastefully hung in event preparation was missing a few letters. It read....

HAPPY ANERSARY! (Sorry, hard to see in the pic with the glare.)

That banner is now safely stored and will be used at every family event in the future. Good laughs like that don't happen every day! Other fun things that happened that night:

Fun Game of Soccer (Patrick, Corwin, Jacob and Mike)

Smokey Came Out for Some Snuggles (seen here with Emily)

AND Cake went up Dylan's Nose!

In spite of Betsy still recovering from a nasty cold, I think she and Tom had a great time and we had a great time surprising them and having a fun bash.

The Whole Gang (except for Mike who took the picture)

Adults -Betsy, Maureen, Joe, Me, Tom, Jim, Kristina

Kids - Emily, Dylan, Patrick, Jacob and Corwin