I have longed to blog about this event for a long time and now I can finally let it all out! I have been planning a surprise birthday for Matt for quite some time. I think the date was chosen in November and save the date cards were secretively sent out with our Christmas cards. As the months rolled along, I would talk about it here and there with Matt's family to make sure it would all work. And to Mattey's complete surprise, somehow we all managed to plan a party in honor of his 32nd "golden" birthday! The Skala and Ebeling clans both showed up in full force along with my whole family and Matt's high school and college friends. It was such a special evening. The look on his face when the curtain opened was pure and utter disbelief. I had to lean over and whisper to him that the party was for him because he had no clue at all it was coming! It took many months of little white and very forgiveable lies and a lot of help from family. Matt's mom was incredible and helped with a ton from helping me order food to decorations to making the poster board to you name it and she helped! Stacey made the cake and took pictures, Diane DJed and took pictures, a few of Matt's aunts and a good family friend helped with serving food and keeping everything stocked and filled, and many, many people helped to make sure the day went smoothly and Mattey got to the party at the right time. I hope I am not missing anyone who helped! People came from all over for the shindig. My dad and Chris made the trip which was so great to have them! We also had friends from Hayward, Chicago, and Milwaukee. It was a full house of about 85 adults and 40 kids. (Yes you read that correctly, 40 kids!) They all had a blast and boogied most of the night. There were people from many different avenues of Matt's life and it was so special to see them all come together to celebrate. Everyone there was appreciated and made Matt feel very humbled by your love. Thank you all for you coming! Mattey is quite an amazing man if I do say so myself ;) Happy early "golden" birthday my love!
 |
| Surprise! |
 |
| Picture board |
 |
| Cake made my Stacey |
 |
No comments:
Post a Comment