I've got an amazing group of women I call my friends. We try to always celebrate each other's babies and birthdays. Alecia is always right in the middle of the planning - birthdays, babies, Christmas parties, Alecia is always planning and helping to plan. So Sarah, Shelly and I came up with an epic birthday surprise for Alecia. We started planning months ago, picked a day, got with josh, got with our ladies, and all circuits were a go! Everyone was available, everything went smoothly. It took some doing, but last Friday was finally the big surprise! It was so exciting, we'd been planning for several months and the big day was finally here!
Josh came up with the idea to write his plans for the weekend on their calendar, and kind of insinuate that he was having a surprise party for her. He wrote "Alecias birthday bash!" for Friday and Saturday, so they could keep the days clear.
We met up and wrote birthday messages all over the van. Joni's awesome 12 passenger van came through again, and we were all able to ride in the same car, which was so much more fun than splitting up would have been. We got lots of honks. Everytime we got one, it took us a minute to remember that it was a birthday honk. So fun!
We hadn't really talked about how we were going to make the big reveal. We just kind of drove into it. We told Joni to honk, and they heard and looked out the window. Alecia was seriously confused! She had thought she and josh were going on a date and then having a party the next day.
Sarah was like, "let's go to the beach!" I think Alecia said something like "overnight? I don't have a bag packed."
But we had thought of that and josh had packed it up. Like magic, Curtis brought the bag on down.
And just like that, our birthday bash weekend was on!
7 mommas and 2 babies (1 friend wasn't able to make it:() headed down the 3 1/2 hours to Virginia beach. The drive was easy, we stopped at wawa (a first for me, but pretty tasty!) for dinner, and had fun visiting and telling Alecia about all of our birthday planning. We had each brought snacks to share, so while we visited in the hotel room, we munched. Miss Adeline came to me and mooched some twizzlers. She loves me. (;
We only stayed up till about 1 that night, a very early girls night for us, but we had a fun day of beaching ahead of us, so we needed our beauty sleep. Sarah and I (and Adeline in the morning) shared a bed, and Joni and kassi were next to us. Then Leisa, Petra, Alecia, and Shelly were just down the hall. Birthday bash day 1 - ✔️.
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