Surprise!

I LOVE SURPRISES!!! There is nothing better than catching someone off guard and doing something nice for them, and my husband is no exception to that. Unfortunately I do not always get to see my surprise ideas through…

You see, while I love surprises, I really suck at keeping secrets. When I plan to surprise someone I tend to get insanely excited and I almost bust at the seams! It’s like if I don’t verbalize my excitement I may explode! So sometimes, my surprise gets the best of me and I end up spilling before it comes to fruition.

Yesterday was one such day. At the last minute I decided to surprise Josh with a pie. He is a pie fanatic and he’s been begging me to try one of the recipes in a pie book we received for our wedding. So I ran off to the store and picked up the ingredients for a strawberry pie.

I have never made a strawberry pie before, but I read the directions about ten times and figured I could pull it off.

In the 3 hours I had to make the pie and hide it before Josh got home from work, I did.  There was literally no remnants of the pie in sight! I even started dinner so that the smell of the strawberries (which was AMAZING) would be camouflaged.

My plan was to make the pie, hide it, and then after dinner I would present him the homemade strawberry pie.

Josh came home, and I was thrilled. I was keeping my mouth shut and acting normal, there was no way that he would have had a clue… I was able to maintain that façade.

Within fifteen minutes, he caught on that I was up to something. Next thing I know, he’s searching the house and even the fridge! Somehow, he didn’t see the pie shaped tin foil blob and kept asking me what I had up my sleeve.

I smiled super big and said I made him a pie! Which he was super excited about.  The feeling I get when I do something unexpected is amazing! I love to do things for Josh that are out of the ordinary.