January 8th... of every year

Today, is a special day. It is ian's birthday. I always tried to make his birthdays amazing, because he deserved it. Last year on his birthday, I threw him a little surprise bday party with his family and mine. It was at the beehive pizza place so we would be eating lots of food. I was so excited that I was barely keeping myself from telling him!! Everyone was in on it, except for him. When he told me he had never had a surprise birthday party, the light bulb lit up the moment he said those words. During I tried to find a place where kids could play, where we could eat, and where the adults could have some fun too. I put "Happy birthday Ian" on their sign, and during the day we drove passed it at least 3 times haha. He didn't even notice. Later, around the time we were all going to meet there I told Ian that I had to go to work for a couple of hours and then we would go down to ogden later. He was bummed, but little did he know...haha. I even drove my car to the credit union, parked in the lot and shawna, ian's sister, came to pick me up, just in case he suspected something haha. Earlier that day we went to walmart and he decided he was hungry, so we walked into subway. I didn't want to tell him he would be having all he could eat pizza two hours later so I just let him eat. Anyway, Shawna and I went to decorate. Brendan, Ian's nephew, called him and asked if ian would go someplace to look at a car with him. Ian even said, why don't you get adrian, ian's brother the mechanic, to go with you because he knows way more about cars. After some time Ian agreed, so Brendan went to pick him up. When ian got in his car, Brendan said with a serious face "Put this on," and handed him a mask. Ian told me later, since Brendan is soooo much bigger than him, he decided to just do what he told him to do, even though he was skeptic. When he got to the pizza place we watch him walk get led in my Brendan with this pink shiny eye mask on. It was sooo funny. When he took off the mask, we were all there and yelled "surprise!!" He was so excited, and really was surprised. I asked him if he had any idea and he said he really didn't. I'm not sure if he lied just to make me feel better, because I am not that secretive haha. Anyway, January 8th will always be a special day, the day we get to celebrate the greatest man's birthday. We love you tutz!