Surprise!

I love to surprise people! For Connor's 13th birthday we surprised him good...but was it ever hard to keep quiet. We actually had two surprises for him. His birthday was on Tuesday and the hard part was that he wouldn't get his surprise til Wed. On Wed. he best friend, Jacob, flew in to town from Idaho. Jacob turned 13 the week before. His mom and I met in our Labor and Birth class and have been best friends ever since. The boys don't get to see each other too often now that we live in different states, but when they do get together they just pick up right where they left off. Jacob was with me when we picked up Connor from school Wed afternoon. Connor got in the car and saw Jacob and just stared at him for a minute like he couldn't believe what he was really seeing. He was so excited to have Jacob here....he said this was the best present ever! But what he didn't know was that was just part one of his surprise!! For dinner that night we had planned to meet family to celebrate together. At dinner I told Connor he has one more gift. I made a word jumbo puzzle for him to solve and once solved it told him what his gift was. He was going to Disneyland. Now Carter did not know any of this either so he was just as surprised as Connor was! Oh what fun!!!

So, Thursday morning we loaded up the car and headed off for Disneyland. We had 3 days of fun just ahead of us. Of course this was Carly's first time going and I wondered how she would do on the rides and meeting the characters. The first ride we took her on was the Toy Story ride. She LOVED it. She sat there and giggled as she pointed to everything she could see. Her new word for the day was "ride". She caught on real fast what this was all about. She was a great trooper! The boys had a great time, as well as mom and dad, and by the end of each day our feet were tired!

I know Connor loved going to Disneyland but what made it all the more fun and special was to have his buddy with him. We are so glad Jacob was able to join us. Now we just need to plan for our next trip! (maybe Carter's 13th birthday.....)