Originally me and Marianne wanted to plan a joined themed birthday party for the boys, but by keeping it a surprise it was waaay hard to schedule. We were originally planning it for the weekend after their birthday, but since my new car needed to be broken in, Jeric planned a Vegas trip that weekend. So, we tried scheduling it for the weekend before their birthday, but things happened.. we got busy.. and some personal matters didn't allow us to properly plan the party, so we ended up nixing it.
I still wanted to surprise Jeric somehow. But our apartment parking situation does not make it easy one bit! We only have one parking spot so our 2nd car needs to find a guest spot, which is very difficult since the building has more tenants than parking spots. So, everyday after work I have to rush home and find a guest spot to save and then when Jeric comes home we switch spots! Which means, I'm totally stuck at the apartment until then, which is usually for a good hour or so. This makes it very difficult for me to go out and get his stuff!
Luckily I figured out what to do. I decided to skip lunch and use that break time to rush over to party city and grab some deco and then rush back to work. I only had a 30 minute window and the drive to and from already exhausted 20 of those minutes. I did have a plan on exactly what I wanted to do already so all I had to do was find everything on my list!
I made it back to work just in time!
Now the hard part! Having only a little over an hour do deco the house!! I wanted to get a sorta Leonardo from TMNT theme going on. So I bought 30 blue balloons and 30 green balloons, found a TMNT "Happy Birthday" banner to string across the living room, some green and blue streamers and these blue and green confetti wands! I also got him a king hat because he's my king!
I started with the balloons. We had a pump, so I knew I didn't need to get one. But about that pump.. it totally didn't work! It was manual pump that you had to push a cylinder in and out of another cylinder. The problem was when I pulled, it pulled back whatever air that was pushed into the balloon! And on top of that, there were places where the air could leak out. Total fail! I began blowing up the balloons myself. But my cheeks started to hurt and I was starting to have a hard time breathing as I blew them up. I did about 4 of them like that and then I totally remembered that we had a Rainbow Vacuum!! It has an attachment made for blowing up balloons!! Total life saver!!! Honestly, without that, I would not have been able to blow up all the balloons. I would either tire out or my time would run out.
Balloons were luckily all blown up and scattered all over our living room floor! I finished hanging the "Happy Birthday" banner and throwing streamers around it. I also had a hand drawn coupon for his surprise birthday gift. It was for the Zombies add on in COD. I rolled it up and stuck it in one of the balloons. I also made sure to stick it in the blue one because it was less transparent. Mwahaha.
I totally wanted to get him a mini cake too, but there just wasn't any more time. :(
Luckily we had donuts and I also bought two king size Reese's Pieces Cups. So I placed a stack of three donuts and the reese's pieces cups around it on a plate.
I seriously finished everything in the nick of time. Sort of.
Midway through blowing up the balloons Jeric texted me that he was heading home (this was at 5 and he usually comes home by 5:30). I wasn't sure if I'd be finished in time so I tried to be sneaky, but that's something I'm no good at. Hahaha. I texted him to call me when he gets here cause I need to move my car. He asked why, and I was like, cause they have movers coming. But he saw the hole in my story immediately!! He calls me, so I have to shut the vacuum off, which also meant I was losing precious balloon blowing time. He's like, "that doesn't make sense. where will I park then?" That's when I break. Hahaha. I could not contain myself. As always, I am no good at lying. Hahahaha. I ended up just telling him, "JUST CALL ME WHEN YOU GET HERE!" LOL! He figured it out of course, that I had some sort of surprise waiting for him. At least, he wouldn't know what kind of surprise!
Back to the deco. I had about maybe 5 minutes when I was stashing the coupon in one of the balloons. I also had to find his card and then prep the gopro so I can record it all.
He calls me as I'm running all around our apartment and tells me he is here! Ahhhhhhhh. Panic ensues.. and I quickly gather everything! I do one last sweep and see that all the deco is in place and as I'm placing the gopro in a good spot the doggies' ears perk up.. crap! I holla.. "Jeric!! Are you at the door?" And he replies, "Yes." Mwahahaha. So I tell him, "Do NOT come in yet!!!" LOL. Everything is ready except for the confetti wands.. where the bloody hell are the confetti wands?? I frantically search for a good minute (but it seriously felt like a lifetime). LOL! And there they are!! I grab them quickly, kick a few balloons to better spots, shut off the lights and yell, "OK, YOU CAN COME IN NOW!"
SURPRISE!!!! *Confetti rains everywhere*
And that he was, totally surprised!!
He loves it! And was like, "you should've recorded it". I'm like, "ah, but I did! look at the gopro". And he's like, "but you didn't. it's not recording." C.R.A.P.! He is right, the red light is not blinking. In all the mayhem for the final few minutes, I forgot to hit record! DOH!
But that's ok. I hit record and start tossing confetti back up in the air and yelling "SURPRISE!" Hahahaha.
I have him put his crown on and sit in front of his faux pas birthday cake. I light a match (cause we have no candles, plus the match is tall enough to fit in the holes of the three stacked donuts) and place it in the middle of the donuts and sing him happy birthday! He reads his card and reads about his surprise gift that he must find among the balloons. Pwahahaha.
He asks if it's covered by the balloons or inside.. I offer no hint. I do allow him to bring in the hounds to help him though. Hahaha.
That was more for our amusement though. Watching Derp play with the balloons, then have one pop and shock every bit of fur on his fat body, and then seeing him go from happy to angry in a blink of an eye and.. ATTTTAAAACCCCKKKK! Which leads to more balloon popping and more anger. Hahaha. It was funny!
Meanwhile, Jeric is searching for his gift. He asks, "blue or green?" This time I help him out and tell him blue. And he notices the method to my madness and says, "of course it's blue, it's not see through!" Hahahahaha.
Minutes later, he finally found it! He reads the coupon and is like.. "What's zombies?" What??? Are you kidding me? Have we not been playing COD for the past how many days and have you guys not been talking about zombies? LOL.
When he realizes what I meant, he's like, "Oh yah, you were sleeping last night. We found out how to get zombies, you have to get really far in survivor to unlock it. So you don't have to pay for any expansion pack." Which means my gift is null, but not really! I told him to keep reading the coupon. I stated that it has cash value. Hahaha.
And that was the end of his birthday surprise!
Now.. clean-up time! Hahaha. Jeric showered while I cleaned up. I wasn't gonna have him help me clean up on his birthday. :)
When he was done showering and getting ready I was still cleaning. I had to pop the balloons quietly so that I don't startle the dogs. Plus I'm sure it hurts their ears. Poor Juno was so scared after the first two balloons popped that she ran underneath our bed to hide.
I still had a lot of cleaning to do, but Marky and Christian were online so Jeric was like, stop cleaning, we'll do it later, go hop on COD! And off I went! Hahaha. Our priorities are definitely in order!
After COD, we rushed off to Lucille's in Cerritos to have dinner for their birthdays.
Happy Birthday boys!!
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