Surprise!!!!

For those of you who know Spencer, you know that he is not too keen on being the center of attention and would really rather not have any attention towards him at all, SO having a surprise 16th birthday party was probably not the best idea, BUT, it is his 16th and Randy and I wanted him to know how many people love him and would want to celebrate with him, so we took a chance.

To make a very long story short, Spencer almost found out, that is, when Spencer asked his buddy to spend the night with him for his birthday, his friend said, " I thought it was a surprise!" We tried to remedy it by telling Spencer that Dad called a few of his friends to surprise him, not that there was a full blown party planned. When Spencer came downstairs, he saw the decorations and grumbled, "What did you do that for?" He thought we decorated for his small get together with just a few boys. He was annoyed that we were making it into a big deal. A second later, everyone jumped out of the dance room and yelled, "SURPRISE!" He was shocked and was not really loving it, but as the party went on, he had a great time. Sometimes you just have to force things on your kids. Isn't that a nice way of putting it?

We had to play just a few games. I tried to pick ones that Spencer would approve of. We only did 2. One of them was a quiz about Spencer, to see how much everyone knew about him.
Juston and Danny from the ward, just goofin' off.

Cute girls from another ward-Kayleigh, Brooke, and Janessa

Neil, Spencer W. ( Spencer's best friend since 3rd grade), Haley, and Claire

Gabi and Kirsten

Alot of the kids LOVED the dance room. We had music going and there were alot of great moves to be seen.

The girls especially couldn't wait to come back!