Brad's Birthday Surprise!

What a wonderful SURPRISE! We were fixing to start cutting the  BIRTHDAY cake when the phone rang! It was PATRICK calling to wish Brad a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! What a surprise to hear him laughing and say, "LOOK OUTSIDE!" there he and Stefanie were, walking up the front sidewalk!!!!!!!!!!! WOW! What a GREAT BIRTHDAY PRESENT! For ALL of us! EVERYONE was there today for Brad's Birthday/Send Off  (to surgery!): Me & Terry; Charles& Rachel; Michael, Kadie, Lily; Pat & STef; Katie! Only JON was missing (He has a stomach virus and is still in Auburn---SICK, poor thing!).I went to make pictures and my camera read: NO CF CARD!!!!!!!!!! I almost croaked! SOOOOOOO, I grabbed Brad's camera and I forgot to use the flash on his so some are a little grainy (until he saw me making them without the flash up! HAHA).I brought home his little SD card and loaded up the pix! I will add some of his later. I will be BUSY for the next couple of weeks , helping Nat with Brad and Kemp so don't know when I will get back to journaling! HOPEFULLY, I will have some pix of Brad AFTER surgery doing great!!!! I will try to get them make and run home and add them at some point next week so that everyone in OZ can see that Brad is doing well (we KNOW he will do well b/c we have soooooooo many people praying for him!). I printed out the e-mails that everyone sent him and he loved each and everyone of them. He was kind  of teary eyed when I handed the stack of e-mails to him........(HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRAD! My 4th SON! I love you!!!!!!!!! MIL)