Top secret mission: success!

CT has wanted an XBOX 360 for months. So, I decided I would get it for him for his 30th birthday. I actually bought it in February when it was on sale and hid it at my parents house for 6 weeks. Every time CT would bring up getting an XBOX, I would come up with some excuse to put it off. Money was a good one; I used that one for awhile. Our mortgage increase is going through this Friday, so I kind of told him that as a timeline. I said we could re-asses our finances after that and see if we could afford it. So, I think I had him fooled ;)

So yesterday, I took the afternoon off work (CT didn’t know that) and did a bunch of errands. I decorated the house with exactly 30 balloons and set up a big scavenger hunt for him to find his present. I actually wrapped a “decoy” present that was obviously too small to be an XBOX to fool him. I had that sitting on the table all during dinner to build the suspense. Then after dinner, he opened it and there was a clue inside. Eleven clues led him all over the house and then finally to a hidden XBOX 360. Man, was he ever surprised! He’s so happy! I have never been so excited to give someone a gift before!!! And the scavenger hunt was fun; I had to make him work for it a bit ;)

I certainly loved working a half day yesterday… I wish I could do that more often! Sigh, back to 8-5 for now.

I have no idea how my weigh-in this week is going to go. I had a few meals out this week and we ordered pizza last night for CT’s birthday (his request), so who knows. I would be happy to just stay the same for the month of April with all these birthdays to celebrate! We are doing a birthday celebration for CT on Saturday with my family, then Sunday is the open house for Oma’s 80th birthday, then Tuesday is the dinner out on Oma’s actual birthday with the whole family. Yikes! At least the weather is getting nicer so I can start going for walks outside again!