Happy 39th Birthday Ammon!

I changed it up a bit for Ammon's Birthday.  I wanted to do something more thoughtful and fun, so I planned a surprise party with all his friends.  He is only 39 but I told them all that I wanted to celebrate his birthday before he officially turns over the hill next year.  In reality.... I've been wanting to have a friend get together for a while and thought that this was a good excuse. I invited many of his closer friends a week ago or so. Saturday arrived.....  I told Ammon that Reese and Stefani wanted to meet us for dinner at Texas Road House around 6:30.  I knew that I needed him to get showered and ready.  While he showered, I told him I was going to take down all the signs from the yard sale that we just had.  I did do that, but I also met a Papa Johns delivery guy at the Flying J down the road since he wouldn't deliver it to us. I didn't think we could BBQ, where it was a surprise and I didn't want to have all the food, etc. in our house/fridge.....so I thought pizza - along with all the salads and desserts our friends brought would work out. The Pizza guy was 10 minutes late.  I only had 5 minutes to spare to get home before guests arrived at 6:00.   I arranged for Nate and Christy to pickup the cake I ordered. I came home and told Ammon that I decided that we weren't meeting Reese anymore.  He asked why?  and I told him that I decided to just have all his friends come to us for a party. Outside were his friends and we starting setting up for our get together. We didn't yell surprise or anything but he didn't suspect any of it.  I invited a lot of his friends and most of them made it.  We missed those that had conflicts though.  I am grateful for the friends that he has.  He has some really good friends, he has fun with them and admires them all.  I appreciate them taking the time out of their busy schedules to spend some time with him on his special day.  He generally doesn't like the attention placed on him, so I didn't make it too extreme by roasting him or making him uncomfortable.  I just wanted to do something for him and have friends around that mean a lot to him share in his day.  Happy Birthday Ammon!  We love you!
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