The surprise that wasn't quite.....

I spent the last three to four weeks trying to keep from letting on to my husband that I had been planning a surprise 50th birthday party for him. He told me not to do something like that, and so I figured he wouldn't know (at first anyway). He's really good at figuring out those kind of things and the smallest little miss-step can give it away. Well, this past Saturday it was getting closer and closer to time for the dinner. My husband was still set on picking up steaks for dinner and grilling out at home, so I had his brother call and invite him out to eat. That worked! I thought we had managed to keep it a secret and it would all work out perfectly......until it didn't. My husband figured it out! Something clicked in his head about us going out to eat and we had done a similar "meet at the restaurant" type of thing for his sister-in-law's 50th birthday. So he came to our room - where I was on the computer - and started asking me over and over if I was up to anything and if there was a party of some kind going on. Now I cannot lie. I'm no good at it (and that's a great thing I know!) - but it certainly doesn't help when trying to make a thing a surprise. So I didn't really say much and he knew then and I had to say something.....but it was all fine. We had a great time and it didn't really matter. I just couldn't believe we were so close to pulling it off when he figured it out!