"Over the Hill"

December is an exciting month!  Of course there is Christmas to look forward to, but we also get to celebrate Dan's birthday and Dan's mom, Sue's, birthday!  I was going to combine the two birthday posts into one, but Sue is a pretty neat lady and deserves a post all to herself.

I might get in trouble for putting this out on the internet, but she is now "over the hill".  If I didn't tell you, you would never guess.  She looks amazing, and does definitely not act 50!  Here's how we celebrated her big 5-0:

Sue and Lorin took a trip to St George for the weekend to celebrate, so us kids got together and decorated the house and planned the party for when they got home.   Dan and I came up with the idea to give her 50 reasons of why we love her, fold them up with 50 $1 bills, and put each one inside a balloon.  She had to pop 50 balloons to read the next reason we love her and get another $1.  All the siblings had a lot of fun coming up with reasons they love her, and laughed at memories they have of her.   There were things like "you have a strong testimony", "good looks",  "you're hard working." And then we had things like "you tan well" and "you make good BBQ wings".  I think she loved every one of the reasons though lol! We also had German chocolate cake (her favorite) and ice-cream. 

The cutest, most creative poster Chey and Bridgette made.

The table

Surprise!

Dan wrote a little poem for her explaining the balloons

Laughing because she realized halfway through that it was a "poem" and started reading it with more "cadence"

Ready to pop those balloons!

Yikes! Ya never quite get used to the sound of a balloon popping!

Sue's "Favorite People" as she puts it.

After 50 popped balloons...The end result

50  has never looked so good!