Chelsea's Surprise Birthday Party...

This past Monday, February 16, 09 was my very good friend Chelsea's birthday. Our story starts that Chelsea and I became very close friends while working together @ LEA. Chelsea was already an employee there when I arrived. You see at the time my department was half complete (me) and although Chelsea worked in a separate department she helped in my world. Chelsea did so much more then just fill in as my other half until the position was filled which was actually some time. Chelsea and I worked so close for many months all the while we were learning as we went, trying to better and enhance the department, getting to know each other, learning so much more about the human spirit, and building a deep bond- we became Girl Friends! Chelsea and I are actually very different in personality, and even very different in our up bringing - but I believe that our differences complement each other and that allows us to have a very genuine deep relationship. For those of you who know Chelsea you know that she is pretty indescribable and I am sure that my connection with her is just as unique and as special as the one that you and she share. Chelsea has several virtuous qualities that many admire and these are a few that stand out the most to me; Chelsea gives so freely of herself (don't confuse that with sharing to much to fast) what I mean is that when Chelsea is with you - she is with you and she appreciates each experience for what ever it is. Chelsea also values family and the opportunities that come along with being around family - even if the people are friends that are chosen as family. And if we all still possessed the ability to play - really play - like Chelsea can, , I swear to you that we would all live a longer life! I know you're thinking that I really like Chelsea - and I do, I really love her. I truly cherish our friendship and I feel very fortunate for having a friend like Chelsea in my life. I was very happy that Nora invited us to join in the surprise party for Chelsea's 30th Birthday. Chelsea lives in Pleasant Grove which is in Utah County and I am here in West Valley at the end of Salt Lake County so needless to say we don't always get to hang out. And although we don't always get to spend time together - we definitely make sure that we get together at least occasionally, really whenever we can! Chelsea has spent a good amount of time with our family, mostly with our kids. I'll tell you our kids just adore her, they think that she is the greatest big person friend in the world. If you don't already know, we believe that Chelsea is the Queen of sweets! Whenever Chelsea has come to hang out at our house she has always planned a fun confection to make with us. This of course, won Jakob's heart because he is the "Sugar Addict" in our family. And Alora likes her because she's smart and she likes kids. Bradford likes to tease Chels and gives her "spanks spanks spanks" on her bottom. I have another Dear Dear friend Melissa, that I met @ LEA (some day you'll get to learn all about her too) but when the 3 of us get together we're totally the 3 Amigas. So okay, now I'll talk about the party. Monday morning I called Chelsea to wish her a happy birthday to let her know I love her and to talk about her plans for the day and of course to put it out there that I wouldn't be seeing her on her day without actually saying it - it was successful. The party started at 630 in Pleasant Grove, the kids and I drove the new truck down so that Chelsea wouldn't see our unmistakable van parked there. We got there early and the kids helped in the decorating and blowing up the balloons. Melissa was able to come down too! We we're all so excited to surprise Chelsea that we just couldn't miss the chance. So we all were at the club house in the dark when Chelsea arrived - someone hit the lights and everyone yelled different things - it was awesome! I heard "Surprise", "Happy Birthday", I even think I heard a "Cheers". Chelsea's smile was so huge that we knew she was very happy and surprised. She made the rounds giving us all loves and during this time Alora started taking pictures when our camera battery died! So Aimee was kind enough to share the pictures that she had taken with her super rad fancy camera. There were many people there that we didn't know personally but everyone was there to celebrate Chelsea and we had a wonderful time - Thank You Chelsea for having a birthday! We love you.