This year my parents celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary. In honor of that, we wanted to do something as a family to help them celebrate such a big milestone. In August Mom and Deddy took a trip to the midwest and visited Rocky Mountain National Park and Yellowstone. They had the best time and we wanted to add to that.
In order to get everyone in Wilmington, Leslie + Will came up with having Anna’s birthday party this past Saturday in Wilmington. Her birthday is on September 12th and so on September 11th we had a party down at the beach. Some pizza, swimming, great cake, and some precious present opening! Even though Anna’s birthday was a blast, it was all just a rouse to get us all in Wilmington without it being suspicious. Then mom started talking about dinner Saturday night. Leslie told her not to worry about making anything. She and Deddy needed to be dressed in black up top and ready to go at 5:30 and that is all she needed to know. Well then the wheels started spinning. Her first questions was, ‘Is Jeff getting married?’ Even though this so sounds like something he would do, we assured her that was not happening. What was happening was we all jumped in the car and headed down to the Oceanic, one of their favorite restaurants on Wrightsville Beach. Waiting for us was Greg + Michelle and a dear family friend, Jack Upton, who also happens to be a fantastic photographer. For mom’s 50th birthday we got all the siblings together and Jack took our picture to give to mom for a present. Well this time, we had the entire family together, all 14 of us, and Jack was ready to snap a few pics. We went on the Oceanic pier and hopefully got a really great shot of the entire family. We then had a magnificent dinner and some delicious Apple Annie’s cake!
So all in all it was a great night. We were able to surprise my parents for their anniversary, get a great picture of the entire family, and get to spend some good quality family time together. Happy Anniversary you two crazy kids!!
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