Party time! Excellent!

Today is Mike's 40th birthday party! I've been working over the past few months to get it all organized and ready, and I'm so excited the day is finally here!!! I worked with Mike's best friend Henio (who's a brilliant artist) to design the invitation and it came out GREAT! It was drawn comic book style, with this photo of Mike at age 20 on the front. HILARIOUS!!! Mike used to be an actor too, and this was an unused proof from a series of headshots that his friend took of him in college. Channeling James Dean, methinks? Needless to say, the invitation was very well received by all, and Mike was somewhat embarrassed, but mostly entertained. :-)

My parents were gracious enough to donate the use of their house and backyard in-ground pool for the party. Thanks Mom and Dad! I am so excited for all the tacky 40th b-day decorations that I bought, which Mike is unaware of. :-) Hee hee hee... Including an inflatable cane (which will be great for floating in the pool, and is also a stab at Mike's surprisingly large collection of canes -- because he's apparently 80 years old???) and a PINATA shaped like the number 40!!!! I bought old school candy to stuff in it, a mix of Mary Janes, Slo-Pokes, Bit O' Honey. Yummy and nostalgic! And I'm bringing some photo albums of Mike in his 20s/30s. I'm hoping his Mom will be able to dig out some albums of his childhood and bring them with her. Oh, I also bought him a t-shirt that says, "40: How the $%^&@# Did That Happen???" for everyone to sign. Oooh that reminds me to grab a Sharpie. We'll have 3 kinds of Baker's Square pies (cherry, lemon merengue and french silk) since Mike is more of a pie fan than a cake fan...but of course we still had to get cake for everyone else (um, hello? what's a birthday without cake???) so my Mom had this great idea to order a cake shaped like a bass guitar!!! Mike doesn't know about it (and he doesn't read this blog, so no worries) and I'm so excited for him to see it!!!

Well, I better get ready to go soon. The weather isn't bad, but I wish it were sunny. It's kinda overcast, with a chance of "isolated" thunderstorms. Hopefully those will be isolated far away from us. :-) I'll post pics this week!