We've been keeping a little secret. Which I personally am historically horrible at. We have been planning a surprise joint 60th birthday party for my parents. My dad turned 60 in December and my mom will in May... We thought a joint party directly in the middle made the most sense. So we have been planning it. Since August. I know. Crazy. And we sent the invitations out about that time as well, lest people question why we wouldn't do anything for my dad's day. So on February 6th, about 65 of my parent's family, friends and neighbors all came together to celebrate them at the Trackside Room. And we were able to surprise them!
My parent's thought they were going to dinner with their neighbors (a sincere amount of gratitude needs to go to them for getting my parents there, such a big responsibility!), but one of them needed to stop real quick at Vertex Mechanical (the building the Trackside Room is located in) to look at something for his kitchen first. Somehow they got my parents out of the car and into the building and even going up to the second floor in front of them. They were greeted with a rowdy suprise! and lots of people taking their photos and so forth with lots of hooting and hollering. My mom held it together better than I ever thought she would and wow the look of shock and confusion on my dad's face was priceless! I just kept saying we got them! The man is impossible to surprise but somehow we did it. My mom said we are all shockingly good liars!
Once they got settled my older brother John gave a really nice speech just honoring how freaking awesome my parents are and how much we love them. Sixty years is something to celebrate! We ate and drank and had cake and just overall a great time mingling with family and friends. It was a really good party if I do say so myself. We had lots of people come in from New York, people from Massachusetts and Maine and Virginia... all to celebrate my wonderful parents. I am so honored that they would do that for them but I'm not surprised because my parents are just amazing people. Thank you to everyone who helped with the event and a thank you to everyone who came and celebrated with us! I know my parents really appreciated it!
Here are the rest of the photos from throughout the night...
Here are the rest of the photos from throughout the night...
Such a great event everyone! Even if I didn't consider the sheer amount of space we would need to take all the stuff home at the end of the night... And I ran out of plates. Curse those plates.
