If any of you know my husband, you know he can't keep a secret. Surprisingly, he did.  It was probably the only one he's kept his entire life.  So needless to say,  Columbus Day weekend Steph and I had no idea what we were in for! 


In September our family and friends got together and threw us each our own separate 30th surprise birthday party (although mine wasn't much of a surprise).  End of story, right?  Wrong!  Here's how it all played out:

Keith mentions Megan has a gift card to a restaurant in Naples.  It's about 20 minutes from our house.  Apparently our group of friends are all invited and we are going to put the gift card towards our meal.  

Fine....sounds good!  Kregg and I are in.

We meet at my house to head to the restaurant Friday night.  Before we leave, Quin mentions checking out a house that we may rent next summer for a group vacation.  

Fine....sounds good!  Kregg and I are in.  We'll do a drive by before heading to the restaurant.

Of course as we're all driving  to go eat, the boys HAVE to ride together.  God forbid they ride with their wives.  So now it's Steph and I in the car.  We chat the whole way there and as we approach the restaurant, we notice it's closed.  We immediately hop on the phone and call Keith.  "Megan got screwed," we tell him.  He assures us they will get to the bottom of it, either way we'll plan on having dinner together and watching the Sox playoff game!  

Meanwhile we continue to follow them to the lake house.  We get out and head in.  Inside they have decorated it with birthday notes, signs, pumpkins, beer, wine, and more beer.  It was awesome.  I still didn't really know what was going on at this point.  It honestly took me a good 20 minutes to put everything together!  (yes, I know I'm blonde)  Apparently they had rented this lake house (which sleeps 8 couples comfortably), for the entire weekend.  And that was just the start..... 

Steph and I continued to enjoy the rest of the weekend with all of our friends.  We watched a photo movie they put together for us, played games, enjoyed the weather, watched some football, had family out to visit, ate a ton and drank a ton.  I won't go into specifics, but let's just say the weekend wasn't as mild as this blog makes it sound.

We were sad to see the weekend wrap up, but it just confirms how great of friends and family we have.  Thanks guys!  Thanks hubbies!  Nice work!  I can't believe you are all such good liars! It was a WONDERFUL weekend!