Surprise!! Nonnie turns 60

Mom and the girls
FABULICIOUS Witt girls
A scrapbook of Nonnie's childhood
we even dressed up Nonnie's dog
Grandpa Wheeler chatting it up with Nickolas

Linda J's fabulous glasses
Some of Mom's life long friends
Logan and his fuzzy red hat
Mac, Jack and Luke
Mom and Mac

Isn't this an awesome cake
Before the party we all tried on Nonnie's many wigs, even Randy
Even Jack looks adorable in Nonnie's wigs
The Queen cutting her cake

On Friday we pulled off the best "Red Hat Lady" surprise party for Nonnie's 60th birthday. It was Awesome!! We'd been working really hard to keep this a serious secret which if any of you know us Witt girls, wasn't easy, especially since we talk to Mom at least once a day and sometimes many times a day. Now her birthday is really on September 26th but since she was in Hawaii for 10 days (snivel, snivel) we had to postpone our party plans.

We chose a red hat lady theme (Thanks to Mom's friend Judy) because Mom has spent her entire life serving everyone else and now it's time for her to have fun, which is what the Red Hat Society is all about. We got her a cake in the form of a big red hat, it was so great and everyone showed up wearing red hats too. We had the house decked out in big fluffy feather boas, flowers and Kazoos on strings adorned our necks.

We had one false alarm and ended up waiting in the dark for a couple minutes until we realized they were not home yet. We called Cal to see where they were and he let us know he was stuck shopping ( of course she would be shopping right?) So we let him know we were more than ready. With an extra 20 minutes on our hands we started pulling out all of Nonnie's many many wigs and reading glasses to try on. We played "dress up like Luana" It was hilarious to see some of Mom's friends trying on her wigs and glasses. We had an entire room full of Luana-look-a-likes until our party was interrupted by Mom walking through the door. Finally they arrived!!

With the lights turned off, Nonnie came walking in the door. She stopped a couple feet in the door, noticed Mackenzie and said "hey what are you doing here?" We flipped on the lights and yelled out "SURPRISE!!" Was she ever! What a memorable night for all of us. The food was tasty, the cake moist and fluffy, and the company fun. We had also put together a DVD/slide show of her life and I made a scrapbook including many of the same pictures. What a joy it was for me to work on. One thing I LOVE about scrapbooking is all the time I get to spend thinking about the people and events I am crafting, it fuels my creativity. Working on my Mom's photos was like using premium gasoline for my creative mind, what quality fuel!

So, Happy Happy Birthday Mom, I love you!!