Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Sing it with me now........"It's My Birthday~~~~........."

Yep, for those dedicated followers of Murphy's Mom Blog, you may recall the earthquake that occurred while we were in Eugene, OR on this date last year.........For those of you less dedicated followers of Murphy's Mom Blog, I'll give you a hint.......CHUCK FORGOT MY BIRTHDAY last year.....

But not this year......nope........nah........no way Jose.......not on your life.......He remembered!!!!!

With a little help from my sister and several close friends, they pulled off what many thought was impossible........to SURPRISE Liz!   Remember our neighbors, Mike and Kim, that I blogged about last Fall where I showed the tears in our eyes as they pulled the U-haul off Eagle Cove for the last time??  Made you cry, didn't it??  Well, she was a major part in pulling this SURPRISE off by suggesting we do what we always do for each others birthdays.......get a massage!  And since SHE turned 50 last month, off we went to get massaged!!

Now, if you've ever had a massage, do you remember what you look like "after" the massage??  Well, let me describe what "I" look like after a massage.....  Picture, if you will, no make-up (never mind....try not to picture that...) bangs standing straight UP, face creased from the table, and wearing very very very very casual clothes...  Now, picture driving up to your house (remember description above) with 35 friends and family waving Jerry Jones signs at you......  My first thought was, "Oh no, where's the FIRE?" until I saw the many Multi-Facelift pictures of Jerry Jones waving at me.  I promptly put the car in REVERSE at that point.....and then, just to shake them up, put it in DRIVE and headed straight towards them.......Ya, some of them jumped into the ditch, but that just made it more exciting.....

My initial thoughts were rather surreal and I can only describe them as something like I would expect "Liz Heaven" to be like.  Over to my left was my friend Liz Hurt.....you may recall her from my Cow Bell Blog last week....and then straight ahead was my Etheridge relatives, including one very very very pregnant niece (who shouldn't have been that far away from a hospital!!) and a niece and nephew who I thought were overseas but were now at my house, and their parents......then to my right were the Calloway relatives......my beautiful newly-skinny sister and hubby and niece and nephew, and then over to the left were my lake neighbors........and then behind them were other lake neighbors not from our neighborhood......My mind was so muddled up, I don't even remember putting the car in PARK.  These were all friends and family from different "sections" of my daily life......most of which had never met each other before.......and here they were.....all together for ME!  Liz-Heaven!!

Despite the 150 degree heat and humidity outside, they had a fabulous time making me do stuff like sing, "I'm A Little Teacup" complete with hand and leg motions, through a sound system that echoed throughout the lake......I insisted that wasn't my era and didn't know the words, but they eagerly helped me through it....I was then required to drink water from the opposite side of a cup.....which, I must say, I actually was very good at for some reason......and then the final humiliation .....blindfold this 50 year old women and make her hit a high heeled pinata with a wood stick.  It really wasn't that hard; I just pretended it was Jerry Jones' face and I was smackin' that thing like it was butter.

Thanks to EVERYONE for making this birthday one I will never forget; one that I will look back on and always smile; and one that made me feel truly loved.

I love you all.........