Last night Tony had a 30th birthday surprise party!
Liza worked for 3 weeks to plan out the perfect surprise. This was an event that was made difficult because Tony is not yet working, which means that since Liza works at home, she and Tony are home together all day long, every day. With the band practicing at the house, too, there really wasn’t a good occasion for Liza to get to the store and do party-planning things – but with the help of some friends, and some good luck, she managed to get a party planned.
Liza used Cody Tesnow – and he was WONDERFUL – to get Tony out of the house on Saturday afternoon. She had discussed this with him mostly online – and he’d come up with a great story – he needed Tony to shoot a movie and it HAD to be done on the 22nd. Liza feigned surprise at this, but said she was fine with it. We had plans to just go out to dinner and a movie – and Tony left with Cody at 5 o’clock. During the next two hours, Liza decorated the house and made food – and people who were near and dear to Tony showed up at the house. Dustin and Sarah and Anthony, and later Katie, were there, along with Renae and Tate and Nick and Anna, and Rory and Jason, AND Greg and Mandy, who came all the way from La Crosse. When Cody brought Tony back, bringing along with him his girlfriend Katie and another friend Rob, Liza met them at the door and complained to Tony that Tony’s dog had made a huge mess in the living room. When he went to investigate – he saw that all of his friends were in the living room, waiting to surprise him.
It was a fantastic party. There was jamming going on in the studio, Nintendo and movies in the basement den, and plenty of good food and conversation upstairs – not to mention lots of drinks. Greg and Mandy stayed on the couch, and we even had overnight guests – Dustin, Rory, and Jason decided to crash at our house. It was a lot of fun to have a houseful of guests and people having a great time at our house.
Liza is VERY grateful to all of our wonderful friends – especially Greg and Mandy from coming from so far away, and especially Cody for getting Tony out of the house – and is so thankful for everyone for coming to the party. It was GREAT!
