SURPRISE!!!!!!!

Well we did it! After about 2 months of planning, we surprised Pete's dad on his 60th birthday with a HUGE party at the Knights of Columbus Hall outside St. Louis. We were all amazed that we were able to keep it a secret, but even though he was snoopy and as mom put it, "a pest!" he still didn't figure it out, and until he heard "Surprise" thought he was going to an anniversary party for a fellow Knight. It was very clever of mom to come up with an invitation for them to THAT party!


Pete designed the decorations around a theme of Balloons that Mom had picked and the hall looked GREAT! There were little balloon flowers that Pete designed and we made on each table with balloon confetti (luckily we didn't get into too much trouble for the confetti!) He had 'Happy 60th Birthday" balloons and a banner on the present table along with some balloon garland along the back rail. The place looked Great!

Mary Jo bought a cake with matching balloons and some big birthday cookies for the kids and for Tony, Dad's friend who also had a birthday at the same time! All cakes were tasty, probably even more tasty on the themed Balloon plates!

When this picture was taken, you can't yet see all the FOOD that we had - Mom made three different kinds of roast beef... 40 pounds! I made another 30 pounds of ham! Mom had two different kinds of pasta with Patty's meat balls, I made German Potato salad and Asian Cole slaw, Diane McCart had two giant tubs of picnic potato salad and Mary Jo had a big tray of Vegetables & dip next to a million pounds of fruit that Patty had cut up! If anyone didn't get enough to eat, it was their own fault!








There was singing...
































Dancing...












































Leaning!...










TROUBLE......








Dad was my favorite "Dancing Queen" of the night!


















Sunday, his actual birthday, Pete and I took him to a Cardinals Game, the Cards didn't hold up their end of the present, and we had to watch a loss, but a bad day in the bleachers is still a pretty good day! It was 70's and sunny and we all left the park a little redder!

















Round the whole weekend off with some bowling and dinner and it was a long, exhausting, but extremely FUN weekend! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!