Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Best Surprise Party!!

Colby and I are in a play group that meets every Wednesday. My good friend Wendy and her daughter Elise (who most of you probably know about)are also in our play group on Wednesdays. Elise was diagnosed with a brain tumor exactly one year ago on March 29th, 2010.

A Mom from our group and another Mom from Elise's Kindergarten class (she is in half-day Kindergarten) decided to plan a surprise party for Elise on Wednesday at Backyard Adventures (an indoor play place that we go to when it's cold out). Since we go there every Wednesday, it was the perfect way to get them there w/out knowing anything was up. Elise's entire Kindergarten class and our whole play group was there and they were completely surprised!!! It was a great celebration for Elise and how far she has come this past year.

I even got Maddy out of school to go and she was super excited about it! We had Jimmy John's subs, chips, drinks and cake. The kids all got a balloon with Elise's caring bridge site attached to it and they all released them into the sky at the same time. It was really cool. We are hoping someone will find one of the balloons and post something on their site!

Colby also participated in the balloon release, however, it ended with me prying the balloon out of his hand and him crying since it blew away ;-) Oh, well!!

Here are some fun pictures from the party:

Maddy and Elise:


Colby eating his lunch:


All the kids eating:


Getting ready to release the balloons:


There they go!! Awesome!!

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