The "Four" Hundred Acre WOOD: Today my "baby" turned 17! Wow!!

Brianna decided that she wanted to surprise Tiffani for her birthday at which ever place Tiffani decided to eat for her birthday dinner. So this plan has been in the works, I think, since Brianna was here over Spring Break. Amazingly enough Tiffani never caught on, even with all my almost slip-ups, just talking about stuff. Whew! But today we had to really drag it out to get into the restaurant. Brianna and Kelley drove down from Sandpoint, leaving there at 6am. Brianna texted me when they got to Grandma J's house so they could get cleaned up and changed. By this time we had been to Penney's and Wal-mart and Les decided that maybe we should check for phone covers for Tiff's phone at the My Bullfrog store and killed a few more minutes there. And well, that wasn't long enough, so we went to Best Buy and wondered aimlessly around in there pretending to be looking at stuff. Finally went back out to the trailblazer and didn't see Brianna's car near Olive Garden yet, so we took a l o n g time opening the package of stylus' that we got to use with our phones. Then drove around the parking lot looking for THE best place to park. Then took forever getting out of the trailblazer. Tiffani finally got out and started pulling on my arm & I refused to move. She's laughing and can't figure out why on earth we are making her wait so long to go eat her birthday dinner, she's starving after all! Finally I see Brianna's car on the road tell Les to get her in... He pulls her in the car, then picks her up and carries her to the back and puts her in the rear window of the trailblazer. She's going crazy trying to figure out why we can't go in. I finally see Kelley and Brianna go in the door. And say ok let's go, but we have to walk slow...

So here's Les "dancing" circles around me to keep Tiffani from running into the restaurant.

One more stall - need a picture of the Birthday Girl outside the restaurant (while Les goes in to make sure Brianna & Kelley got seated and where).

I didn't have the flash on so it's kind of a blurry picture, but this is seconds after Tiffani realized it was Brianna sitting in the seat. (At first she thought it was Tracy and couldn't figure out who was with her and why we had been keeping that such a surprise.)

Just reminiscing about how well this little surprise was pulled off.

Tiff learning her other surprise is a beginners Scuba lesson later this week. :) She's just a little excited about that!! (Les & Brianna get to go too.)