The best part of Matthew's birthday was his surprise party. We started the evening with dinner at Clark's Fish Camp. We went with Matt's mom, grandparents, two sets of aunts and uncles and his cousin and her boyfriend. With there being 11 of us, we knew we needed a reservation, so we made one Thursday. Unfortunately, they had the time wrong, but it didn't take long at all for them to get a table ready for us. We already planned for Matt to go with Mark and Brigette to Best Buy after dinner so the rest of us could get back to the house and get everything ready for the party. Our friends Amber and Evan were there soon after we pulled in and I put them to work as well. Kevin and Melodie made it a short while later with their youngest daughter, but they missed all of the set up. We made pretty quick work getting the food out and the house decorated. Matt was very surprised to see everyone. We didn't have to wait too long before I got the call from the next surprise. Barbara got him a singing telegram. They came dressed up like chickens, sang, gave him a certificate, took pictures and left. We used our new video camera (Barbara gave us hers because she never used it) to tape the show. Unfortunately, we are still trying to figure out if or how we can post the video, so I can't post it yet. We cut the cakes and then Matt opened his birthday cards. We hung out for a little while longer before people started heading home. Some of the family stayed and we played the Wii before the rest of them left to go back to the hotel. It was a great night and I know that Matt enjoyed it.
Side note: Before I started cleaning up I let the cats out of our bedroom since they were stuck in there for a few hours. I started getting ready to put the cakes away and Juliet jumped up on the table. I went to shoo her off and she decided to run through the cookie cake!! Luckily she left paw prints where she stepped, so we're able to cut it out.
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