The Curious Lark: David's Surprise Birthday Party

Hello everyone!

It's been awhile, but I wanted to stop by because summer break has started, and more importantly, it was David's birthday yesterday!

Since it was his big 30th birthday, I wanted to do something special for him and throw him a surprise birthday party! I asked everyone to come at 6:30 with the plan to pick David up from work and bring him home around 7, but the plan almost fell completely apart. At 6, David called me and said that he already left work and was walking home instead of waiting for me to pick him up from work. It takes about half an hour to walk from his work to our place, so I panicked a little bit, and texted everyone to come ASAP. Thankfully, we have amazing friends who ran over as fast as they could (one even ran out of the shower to get here on time haha) and we were able to assemble before he got here!

SURPRISE!! =)

It was a little stressful towards the end because everything had to be done super quickly(thanks dear...), but it was also fun to set everything up. Initially I was going to use plastic cups, but when I ran into these cute little milk jars, and couldn't pass them up! I think they ended up being only a little more expensive, and I thought it added a cute touch =)

the first wave of friends as we waited for David

The birthday cake!

I didn't really have a theme in mind, but somehow, the theme became green/blue as I was assembling the spread, and there happened to be a perfect cake that matched the theme! It was a green tea/blueberry cake, and it was absolutely delicious!

such beautiful peeps =)

After the food, we got together for some friendly competitive round of Taboo and other board games ;) We could have gone easy on the birthday boy, but that's just not how we work around here =p haha

After a round or two, I presented David with the last part of his birthday presents =)

We had all of these amazing pictures taken with Kate last year, but we had never printed any of them! It was a good chance to get one blown up so that he could hang it wherever he wanted in our home =)