Thursday, June 7, 2012

Who's turning 60?!

On June 28th, my father-in-law turns 60!  We decided to throw him a surprise, Hawaiian themed birthday party, early.  They had company come from Florida who helped to distract him Saturday morning.  They ended up taking the boat to breakfast and coming back around 12:45 PM.  When their boat turned the corner, he was like, what is all that stuff on our porch?  Who are all those people?!  
Decorations as you come down the hill on the side of the house
 Lots of water, as it was a hot day
 More decorations
 I took about a week, working off and on, to string all these decorations from the twine.  They added so much to the theme though!
 Banners hung from the railings
 Decorations on the posts
 Table cloths
 The beach scene
 Maria and Tia, two big helpers in getting everything put together!
 View from the lake up to the house
 Banner (Bill used to be an avid surfer in his younger days.)
 Snack food and drinks
 Party people!
 Food area
 Coming around the corner not expecting a thing.
 Noticing all the decorations and people on his porch
 Meet and greet :)
 Emma's ready to party!
 This was the cake.  For some reason I can't get it to turn from this webpage.  You'll just have to turn your head to the side, or your computer screen. ;)
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 Side view
 I love how colorful this party turned out to be!
 We only gave him two candles cause we didn't want to have to call the ambulance!
 Mr. Evan
 Chatting
 Nice face
 Silly face
 Brian, Tyler, and Tony
 Alan and Benny playing Cornhole.
 Some of the younger crew went swimming.  Cat made a big splash! :)
 Opening presents
 Uncle and nephew

 The two birthday boys, Bill and Alan
Emma and Cookie 
 Emma and Pepaw
 More decorations
Tyler and me in front of the Woody. 

Happy Birthday old man! :)  Hope you had a great day!

And again, thank you to all who helped make it possible! :)

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