It's Official...

My kids are sneaky.
(But in a very good way!)

Saturday, Lee and I were surprised with a 20th anniversary party put on by our children!

Yes, you read that right...My wonderfully talented and amazing children threw us an Anniversary Party!

For the past 3 months, our children have been plotting and scheming, preparing an anniversary bash right under our noses!

They made and sent out invitations, planned a location, arranged for the food, planned a program, made decorations, made a memory book for the guests to sign, made an awesome video, arranged for us to get there, and kept it a total secret the entire time!
(Even Max and Emma kept it a secret!)

Elisabeth was even there! She drove home Saturday and I was shocked beyond belief to see her there!


Here's how it went down:

Cristina and Jonathan invited us to go out to dinner and a play Saturday night.
After dinner, Jonathan told us that they were just called to be on the Activities committee in their ward and they were in charge of taking down tables and chairs from an activity they had early Saturday and wondered if we could go help them because we had some time between dinner and the play. We walked into their clubhouse and were surprised by family and friends! It was awesome!

It was so fun to see almost my whole family there (even my sister from Idaho and her family) and Lee's whole family there. I was so happy to see dear friends and neighbors of ours. I feel so blessed to have such good people in my life!

It was a fun, exciting, and surprising evening!

We enjoyed the awesome video Scott made for us. It was amazing to see how we've all changed over the years. I can't believe how big my kids are now and how old we are!

Then Jake announced that they have prepared a special dance for us, but what he really meant is that they played the re-make of our song, "I'll Melt with You" by Modern English, and Lee and I would dance (Lee's worst nightmare to dance with everyone watching!) I danced with Lee a quick minute then each one of my boys came up to cut in one by one. It was cool! Then we reinacted the "cutting of the cake" from our wedding reception. This time I smeared it all over his face (I always wished I'd done that at our reception!).
That was better than I ever imagined! (I'm not sure why.)

Then we just enjoyed visiting with our friends and family.
It was so great!!!

I can't tell you how thankful I am to my kids for doing this for us! They really did everything! So much planning and work went into this and I can't say thank you enough for all they did! Elisabeth worked her little tail off and was so organized in the planning of this. It was truly amazing how she managed to do this with her being in Cedar City and the rest of them being here! I found out that Scott worked on the video before seminary (at like 5:30 a.m.) while we were still sleeping to get it done. How many 14-year-olds do you know would do that!?! He even had it saved on my computer and I had no idea!

It was just so wonderful!

Everything from the surprise to the decorations, to the food to the video, to the shock of Elisabeth being there to the company of family and friends...

It was absolutely perfect!

Thank you to my totally amazing children for giving us an anniversary to remember!
I will NEVER forget this!
You are the best!
Always remember that I love you!!!!!!

THANK YOU!!!

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P.S.
I'll post pictures when I get them. I don't know exactly who was taking the pictures!