The Franks Family: Happy (Surprise) Birthday Lance!!

We pulled it off! On Friday, August 21st my friend Courtney and I had a surprise birthday party for Lance! We had been planning for over a month and there were so many times I almost spoiled it. What a huge relief to have it all over. We had such a great time though. The party turned out wonderful (thanks to Courtney and some friends who made it all possible) and Lance was completely surprised! He later told me it was the best birthday party he's ever had! What a sweetie.

Let me give you the play by play for how we pulled it off...the party started at 6:45 on Friday night. Lance had baseball practice that night but Mac helped me out by calling an early practice. Earlier in the week he told Lance and Chris (the other baseball coach) that he wanted to take them out to dinner for all of their help. I had already told Lance that I had plans with the girls that night because Kimberly was in town. So Mac picked Lance up and then brought him to Courtney's house at 7:45. Lance had never been to Courtney's house before so Mac pulled it off by saying they were stopping by a buddy's house for a beer. Mac sent me a text when they were about two minutes away and at that point I had everyone come into the kitchen. Mac rang the doorbell and someone answered and Mac came in first, followed by Chris and then last but not least, Lance. When he rounded the corner he saw Holden and I first and we all shouted "Happy Birthday Lance"!!! He was totally shocked. Right before we shouted, Holden was playing with something on the wall and knocked it off and it made a very loud crash and then we all yelled, so he got very scared and started crying. Took quite awhile to calm him down, poor thing.

It was a great party and we had so much fun! Happy Birthday sweetie! We love you!