Along came Kev's birthday a few weeks later. This one to be his 45th and I had felt the need to throw him a bit of a celebration. I had been conspiring with Edna for quite a few months. I wanted to give him a surprise and the only way I could think of doing it, was to get him to drive to his mums under false pretences...so that is what we did! Edna contacted all of Kev's childhood friends and the large family and made party arrangements. The original idea was a small BBQ for 15-20 people, we think we had double that in Mick and Edna's garden!
Quite remarkably, everyone managed to keep quiet about it...I was so worried. With things like facebook, it would have been so easy for someone to quite innocently slip up! Kev and I made plans to spend his birthday with his family,his mum was going to do a roast and his sisters would join us...!
Thinking back, I don't understand how he didn't suspect anything! He didn't twig when Edna would ring me and I would sit right next to him on my phone just answering "yep, yep, ok!" and then had to try and conceal the smile on my face....after all he would have been more suspicious if I had run out of the room when she phoned!
The morning of Kev's birthday, I kept a close eye on his facebook wall making sure no one slipped up saying something like "see you later!" haha. Well, all went to plan, we collected Yvonne and Andy, I exchanged a few whispers with Yvonne and again, Kev thought nothing about us loading extra chairs into the car! Neither did he wonder why Eve kept ringing her mum to say how close we were so she could "get the potatoes on!" LOL. Ah bless him!
When we got to his mum and dads, he did comment on the amount of cars there but we quickly said there was a fete over the road and then laughed with Yvonne as we both noticed the school was very obviously locked up! haha.
All the secrecy was worth it when we got into the house and Kev was ushered out towards the garden and as he opened the back door, loud congratulations filled the garden and Kev started to see all his friends! He even welled up! That moment was irreplaceable...he looked so pleased and surprised, and that made me cry! I never thought it possible to love someone quite so much!
Kev and I slowly made our way around everyone saying our hello's. Even Lin, Andy and the girls were there. Again, Kev hadn't noticed the whispers between Lin and I the previous weekend at Hayley's party as we tried to arrange time and address!
What an absolutely fantastic afternoon/evening! The BBQ was brilliant and the alcohol was well and truly flowing! Most people left by about 5 or 6pm and then the evening party got into full swing! The karaoke came out and so did the dance moves! Kev and his Dad sang a duo to "House of the Rising Sun", their favourite song. It was touching for me to watch...such a strong bond that doesn't even need words...
Then....the limbo pole came out!!! Safe to say, by now, we were all pretty drunk and I was completely giddy with happiness! I had a go at the limbo and landed flat on my back! A few years ago - 1. I would never have even attempted the limbo, 2, if I had fallen over I would crept off into a corner to hide my humiliation! As I lay there, I wasn't humiliated or embarrassed but burst into laughter and the more I giggled, the more people giggled at me! There I was laying flat on my back in the middle of the decking laughing so much and everyone was laughing with me! Eventually Yvonne whisked me up and helped me find my feet....tears of laughter rolling down my cheeks!
Later on, I got real tears! I certainly was very drunk and I do get emotional when drunk. I suddenly got completely overwhelmed with shear emotion. Such a small idea and here we were having such a fantastic afternoon. From my point of view, I had never experienced anything like it - great, harmless fun! Our Niece Chantelle saw me crying and looked concerned...I told her how loved I felt and I was still getting used to it! Throughout the entire afternoon, I had been accepted in with open arms and as we all got more drunk, there we were singing and dancing around like we had known each other all of our lives! I remember the lovely Denny, who was more drunk than me, hugging me and saying "Oh Ange, you're lovely, you're one of us!".....I still couldn't quite understand what I had done to be so fully accepted and loved by every one of Kev's family and friends I had met!
Kev obviously had a great time too, despite him saying he didn't want to do anything for his birthday! It was lovely to see him having so much fun with all his friends and family! We both fell into bed with big smiles on our faces! :D - a very memorable 45th birthday for the love of my life! xxx
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