Well George’s 30th birthday is April 27th, 2012. Bryan Dever always told george we were going to do something big and surprise him on his birthday. However with that said, I’m not usually good at planning surprises and didn’t think I could pull anything off. But I have to say I’m VERY proud of myself. I really didn’t think I could lie so good LOL. So back in January I started planning a trip to Seattle for the Seattle Supercross. I got a hold of many of George’s good friends and confirmed which ones wanted to and could go and I bought tickets. Received all 14 of them in the mail and hid them, FOR MONTHS. At this point I hadn’t had to do any lying because he wasn’t expecting anything. Before I got the tickets, I had to contact George’s boss and get him off work. This turned out to be a little of a challenge because I wanted to get him off work on Friday, April 20th, and it just so happened their quarterly inventory day was that day. So it looked like we weren’t going to be heading over to Seattle until Saturday the 21st, which was the day of the race. But I was able to get him the Monday after off so even though it was a rush to get over there… we got a day to wander around Seattle and be tourists before heading back!
So MONTHS, occurred and nothing was said about any birthday surprise. Thanks goodness everyone including me was able to keep the secret. On Friday April 20th, George woke up and went to work as usual. Inventory is always a long night at his work, so he didn’t get home until 930pm. Once he got home, I had a cake made for his birthday. When he walked in, he saw the cake and wondered why I had made it a week in advance, since his birthday wasn’t actually until the next Friday the 27th. I had Kiersten give him his birthday card, which exposed that we were going to the Supercross. This is where the lying began!! CRINGE. I had to convince him that we were going to do something every day until his birthday to celebrate his birthday WEEK. (ya right, I don’t celebrate birthday WEEKS and never will, your birthday is ONE day LOL) This was just to get him to open his card because he didn’t think he should be opening his card a week before his birthday. Once he opened his card he saw the words PACK YOUR BAGS WE ARE GOING TO SEATTLE SUPERCROSS. This was a shock and he wanted to know who was going. I informed him that it was just him and I. That we were taking the kids over and my Cousin Jamie was going to be watching the girls (This little lie about my cousin Jamie came back to haunt me the whole trip over).
So that night we went to bed and woke up BRIGHT and EARLY and packed up the girls (I already had the vehicle packed the day before) and we headed to Seattle. The whole way over I was receiving texts from his brother Cody and mom. Which I had to make a few extra“bathroom stops” to send them messages back so he didn’t think anything of it. Also on the way over and the night before laying in bed, he kept quizzing me about my cousin Jamie. He wasn’t comfortable leaving the girls with someone he had never met, understandably so. He kept quizzing me about this and why I hadn’t tried to get my parents or his parents to come up and watch the girls. I told him that my parents weren’t coming up because my dad had plans to shoot a bow shoot (which was true) and my mom had to work (not true). And that his parents couldn’t come up because it was his moms weekend to work as well and she couldn’t get out of it (another lie). So after a stressful trip of one lie after another on the way over we finally arrived in Seattle. My original plan was to tell George we were meeting Jamie at a restaurant and she was going to take the girls from there, when really all of his friends were going to be at the restaurant. However on the way over I was quizzed so much about my cousin watching the kids that when we got closer I didn’t even want to mention her name again, because I didn’t want him to ask MORE questions. So I texted everyone… change of plans, everyone needs to be in the hotel lobby when we show up, I couldn’t lie anymore. When we got about 15 min out I sent everyone a message and they all headed to our hotel. It was a good thing that the hotel entrance was a bit confusing, because normally we probably would have pulled up to the lobby entrance and he would have got out to check us in and I wouldn’t have been there for the surprise! But it worked out perfect, the hotel entrance was a bit confusing and so he decided to just go park in their parking garage. And so we all headed up to the lobby together to check in. When we arrived many of our friends were in the lobby to surprise him. I didn’t get to see his face because I was behind him, but He was in shock and speechless. Not long after the first reveal, another friends showed up and it was another surprise all over again. AWW no more lying and the secrets were all out, thank goodness.
From there, Kate watched the kids and the rest of us went to the bar and then down to the track. We were also very lucky, my family is friends with Ryan Villopotos Grandpa and uncle, and His uncle David got us free Pit passes which was so awesome, I couldn’t be more thankful to David for being able to do this for us! It was a great time out with friends and family and I believe a birthday George won’t forget!
