After my birthday supper, Ben and I walked to the nearby park with all 16 balloons in tow.

Monday morning rolled around. I had school so I woke up at 6:30 to get ready. I was so tired that while in the shower, I accidentally shampooed my hair with body wash haha. Oh well. This is what I saw when I opened my bedroom door!
 After school, I went to the dollar store and got 16 balloons filled with helium. And then I walked home with all of them. I tell you, THAT was not one of my more brilliant moments. Helium balloons in Lethbridge wind are a BAD idea. At least all the people passing me on the road got a kick out of this short white girl trying to wrangle a bunch of balloons as big as she was. I had to untangle them all when I got home, and I put them in my room too.
 And then I put all my birthday cards up on the wall!
For supper I had leftover Chinese food, and Spencer and Hawna came over in the evening for chocolate birthday cake courtesy of Grandma Edwards!

I got a phone call from Momma Froc (and Benton), and a surprise call from Shelby! That made me SO happy! There was also a surprise birthday email from Sister Watson, and lots of happy text messages and facebook wall posts. You guys sure know how to make a girl happy. :)

 By the time the cake was done, I hurried and cleaned up my stuff and ran to catch the bus. The plan was, I would go over to Lizzy's house, and because she has been home for a few weeks and I haven't seen her, I would suggest that we go to Starbucks for a visit. However, on the way to Starbucks, I would remember that I had to go to Ben's house to "pick up scones" (Which, by the way Mr. Biscuits, you still owe me. lol.) and we would go and all her friends would be there and she would wonderfully surprised.

Well I finally got to Lizzy's house two buses later, and she had her sister's car so we drove. She mentioned something about how Ben had told her not to let me forget to "pick up some scones" so we would go do that first. We pulled up into the driveway, and Ben answered the door and led us into the kitchen where a dozen people yelled "SURPRISE!". Lizzy's face was awesome.

But they didn't just yell surprise for Lizzy. While I had been gone, MORE decorations had been put up, in both of our favourite colours, including a gigantic homemade banner that read, "Happy Birthday Chantelle and Lizzy!".
 Apparently it had been in the works for over three weeks! All of Lizzy's friends were invited, the entire Women's Chorus had been invited, and all of MY friends and roommates had been invited too! Not everybody could come, but it was still a huge surprise and we had so much fun. :)
 No one has ever thrown me a party before and I had SO much fun! A great big thanks to everyone who was in on it! Especially Ben. He had everything planned so that I thought I was planning Lizzy's party, and Lizzy thought she was planning my party, AND managed to keep it a secret from both of us for three weeks. So if you see him, give him a high five. Or a car.

For the past little while, Ben has been telling me constantly how excited he is to give me my birthday present. And it drove me INSANE because I can't stand not knowing things. However, out of pity (or maybe just because he likes to see me go crazy), I was offered one hint.