Celebrating the Big 16

Sixteen. Do you remember when you were turning that age? Oh, how grown-up we felt.

Justus turned 16 this past April and I decided to throw him a surprise party. He had no idea because even I had no idea until a few days before! haha

On his birthday we had a birthday supper for him but this was something different and it was a complete surprise.

We did have a few glitches but what surprise party doesn’t?! Everyone was supposed to be here but there were two guests that hadn’t arrived. They were busy having a little too much “fun” on our dirt road and had had a little accident. My son, Seth had to go meet them to see if he could move the car and pick up the boys. Unfortunately there were two flat tires and the car couldn’t go anywhere.

In the meantime, Justus and my hubby was supposed to be coming up the road. I had to call and send them on a goose chase. It was a totally believable errand. That bought us the time we needed to get the boys to the house. We knew our son would recognize the car and thought all was lost but whew! he saw there was a dent in the side and some other things so he thought it was someone else’s vehicle. Saved!

Wow, what a surprise he had. So glad we were able to pull it off!