Surprising Kiki

Well, I'm finally getting myself back together and can start doing some blogging again. So many times I've wanted to just do a quick post with a few pictures I took, but since I'm so far behind, I really wanted to try and keep things in some sort of chronological order. And the last I left off was going home to surprise our families, mainly Kiki, for her big milestone birthday! If you recall, we got in Friday evening and surprised my mom and sister (my dad and brother-in-law were in on it). We had a fabulous dinner with them at my parent's house and spent the night. Saturday morning we ate breakfast and then my mom beautified all of us so we could go on to surprise Sandy at lunch time. Here's how it went down:
We got a large wardrobe box from my parent's house so that the boys could hide in it and pop out in surprise. We were able to get it set up and kept them quiet until they got in the box. I went and hid in the bushes to video her reaction and Micah hid in the garage. Larry was by his truck in the street with his camera to snap some pictures. I was waiting for the knock at the door to start recording, but never heard Micah knock...so I was unprepared when the door opened. I hurriedly tried to start recording, but inadvertently kept pressing the power button instead of the record button!! How frustrating!! So thank goodness Larry got these pictures, and I finally got my act together and was able to record a little bit of it.

When she opened the door and said "There's a box!" and then the boys started giggling and moving-and she then caught on very quickly what this was all about.

I stood up to get some better footage

And I think it's hilarious that she opens the box and then doesn't grab the boys out-she goes to hug Micah. So the boys are standing there in this box waiting for someone to get them out so they can hug everyone too! Luckily Uncle AJ came to the rescue :)
And apparently she was so overwhelmed that she completely missed me in the bushes :)

This isn't the best picture, but I love how he's reaching up.

SUPRISE KIKI!!! :)