Huge Surprise

 - by Brittany

So Thursday, I was waiting for Kevin to get home from work. About 5:30 pm I heard Kevin unlock the door downstairs and come in. I had just taken Jameson in to change a dirty diaper. Kevin never came up. I was wondering what was taking him so long as I told Jameson his dad was home, and then had no dad walking through the door to prove it. Finally, as I am mid diaper change, Kevin yelled for me asking if I could come downstairs. Umm, no. I yelled back I was right in the middle of the diaper change and that wasn’t gonna happen. He yells back, “Ok, I’ll come up.”

So in my head I’m thinking, what is he doing? What is the big deal? I was a little annoyed, not gonna lie. So I hear someone come in the door behind me, and I turned around only to see…

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Kevin decided to surprise me, and flew my best friend from Reno up for the weekend. Since I was missing out on my previous wards girl’s night out, he decided to bring it to me. He bought tickets for the midnight showing of New Moon for us!

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Then he coordinated with some friends here so the four of us could all go see the movie. Sariah got to come with me to a baby shower, first, where we got asked to write down the gifts. Let me just say, you should never ask the new girl and her visitor to try and write presents and who they are from. We had no idea who people were if they didn’t provide a card. Luckily, Sariah would just ask.

After the shower we killed some time and got to the theater an hour early. We figured we would be ok. Umm no. We got there, had to go to the third story where the theater is to pick up our tickets, and then came the bigger questions. There were lines on every floor. I asked the ticket lady how many screens the movie was playing on. Oh, All 16. So then I asked how many people that would amount to. She told us there were about 3,000 people there and the line was down on the first floor. We followed the line down and ended up here…

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Yup, we are standing in line in the parking garage below the building. By the time they let us in the theater it was 12:05. Then they told us to pick any of the 5 screens in front of us. Well, considering we just walked up how many flights of stairs, we were aiming for the closest theater which was also an IMAX. Our seats weren’t too bad, and we were able to get some snacks before it started.

Occasionally, I asked Sariah if she wanted to borrow my “Team Jacob” shirt. I mean, who wouldn’t? We had so much fun, and made it home around 3 am.

The next morning, we woke up, and Jameson found some birthday presents from the Free family. He hasn’t ever really been into opening presents. Well, we showed him how to open the first one, and he loved it. He played with his car, and was content, so we headed for the shower. When I came back to check on him after, he had a box in his hand and was yelling, “Mom, a cow!” I was confused till I realized he had opened all his presents while we were in the shower. Funny kid.

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After we got ready, we headed out to explore the shopping. We went to 3 or 4 malls, and Jameson wasn’t too bad. All things considered, we did really well. For how many stores we went to, we really didn’t spend any money. 🙂 Toward the end of the day, Jameson got to spend some energy on the playground at the mall.

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I’m so glad all the malls here have little playgrounds for the kids.

Saturday, we went to a baby expo. I actually ended up winning some jewelry from Cookie Lee…

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We were so close, like 5 inches, to winning an orbit stroller. Too bad. They had some really cute items there, and we got lots of ideas. When we got back, Kevin and I took Sariah and Jameson to the park. Sariah got to witness how up close and personal the ducks can get. Here is the progression of our tree…

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(October through the end of November)

Sariah flew out Sunday morning before church (our church is at 12:30). We had tons of fun, and can’t wait for the rest of the family to come visit us some time soon. Hopefully we’ll have better sleeping arrangements by that time and Sariah won’t have to listen to Jameson talk in his sleep. 🙂

I also have to add that I have the best husband. Not only did he fly up my friend, and buy us tickets, he also watched Jameson almost the entire weekend. He knows me so well. My only clue, was Thursday morning. He asked me if I liked surprises. I told him yes, then went back to sleep. He asked me at like 6 in the morning, and I just ignored it. He has surprises for me all the time. It’s never because he is trying to make up for something, either. He also never expects anything in return. I love this man so much!

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