UPDATE at 9:15pmSunday night !  Ok everyone all the photos  are uploaded and ready for your VIEWING PLEASURE..  The photos should be in order from the  moment the blind fold came off to  the photos of everyone  who came .. 45 photos in all . Thanks so much again for  everything .. I still want to take a photo of the flowers made out of dollar bills from Diane  .. I will post that later ..  Thanks for looking at them .. and soo sorry about not posting them earlier .. We took Jessica and Ben ( Yes   The " Ben " Jessie  likes )  out to lunch after church  for their December Birthdays   and Hubby had a meeting right after church  also ..  Plus I had to  copy moms photos to a cd for myself  to upload them  .. Enjoy ..

  Yes  the SURPRISE is  on me !! Last night  Hubby  took me to  a surprise party that him , daughter and my mom had planned  for my birthday  OH MY gosh ..  If you ever wanted to see a 40 yr old   cry like a baby   you really needed to be there last night ..  Yes he ended up blind folding me  to take me to  our church hall  and  Yes if he wouldn’t have done that I may have guessed  what they were all up to , so he was right HE Had to blindfold me  for my ride to the  secret place .. and I had NO clue  because of course he  had  drove a totally different way  to our church  sooo many stinkin turns I tell ya, that it threw me  way OFF base  .. when we had arrived  at the church  and took the  blindfold off  & I lost it  everyone  yelled SURPRISE!! It was sooo awesome  words cant not express  the Joy .. Today is gonna be  loaded with lots of photos  of handmade  cards I have received in the mail  1st 

and  then ones  from last night .. also I have uploaded all my  camera photos of the surprise birthday party  BUT today  after church some time I am going to  upload  what my mom got on her camera today  ( she got the crying ones of the real  surprise on my face ) .. so if you want to look  at the photos so far LOOK HERE!!! BUT PLEASE check back later to see the ones from my Moms camera   I will post  on my blog to let you know they are in there and ready for your viewing pleasure .. Are  all these cards Great or what ?  2 funny stories  with 2 of the cards listed  today  from last night .. if you look at  Peg  and Steve’s card they gave me ..  this card may look familiar to my bloggers .. This card they gave me is the Card I sent to Peg on her Birthday  just a few days ago on January 3rd .. Pretty cute huh? Peg said she had to Re gift it back to me ..  Then if you look at the card next to  that one  you will see Philly’s Birthday card .. Funny thing with this is  the card she gave me is from my Hostess appreciation  party 2 years ago .. at this Hostess appreciation party I had  them play a stampin relay  contest  and  the idea was to have 2 girls  compete against each other in stampin a card I had already designed  the one finished making the card closest  to mine would win a prize ..WELL.. This card Philly  gave me is her winning card from that  party  you can  see  the photos of  this Hostess appreciation party By clicking here  and to see  Philly  when she won this contest   go to page 5

on page 5 you will also see the  finished card and what it was suppose to look like ..SOOO very funny!

The hall was all decorated in my favorite color PURPLE of course and  My mom had  purchased for me  a  fountain for drinks (filled with my Favorite lately .. Cranberry Juice) and a chocolate fountain  which  they also used this evening also .YAHOO!  look at all the photo ok .. you will see them there..  Words truly can NOT express  my   my  heartfelt  appreciation  to all of you  who  came and  gave me  gifts and made all these beautiful cards ..( Which  Ruthie said this year I was double dippin  for cards .. cause she made me 2 this year.. and so did Gina   Hee! Hee! ) .To all of you  that had no idea they were  having this surprise for me and didn’t  get invited   They did Not do this on purpose it was  a last minute  thing and Jessica kidnapped my phone ( which I had no idea what she was doing .. she said she was calling her  friend Racheal )  well she was really  writing all my cell ph #s   that I had for my  stampin queens  and she  for sure overlooked alot of you ..But not on purpose  just didnt know who was who in my cell ph  listing.. Not only did I receive  such Love and all these beautiful cards I also received   a watch,  jewelry,  bath goodies  gift cards to apple bees, B&D mongo BBQ, Ruby Tuesdays,  Oriental Forrest, bath & body works, candles , a  car  magnet  that says HONK Driver just turned 40, , a OH fudge I;m 40  jar of Fudge, coffee cup,  and of course 2 brand new Fancy hats from Gina , and brand new pair of tennis shoes  that I wear 24/7 from Hubby, and you have got to see the  roses made from  40 1 dollar bills from Diane Just beautiful  and  they even smell   soooo wonderful …of course I am probably forgetting  some things i received this early in the morning but please look at all my photos on my web shots ..

Thank you all so Very much .. I loved everything about my party  But most of all I  Thank you all for being a part of my  life , and  for  just being there ..

Until later .. Happy stampin!!