Surprise!

Last night Paul tells me he has to go to a meeting on base at 7pm.  Although outside the norm he has a good explanation and off he goes.  His meeting starts at 7:30pm and he initially says it's going to be a couple hours.  10pm I'm texting him to ask if he's almost done.  11pm I'm getting really annoyed.  11:30pm and he's finally on his way home and I am wicked annoyed at him, but he asks me to wait up with him.  Just before midnight I go down to the basement to let the dogs outside and I kind of hang out down there until I'm gonna let them in.  I hear Paul come in and he calls out for me.  I yell that I'm in the basement and then I hear a dog collar jingling.  The next thing I know my sister's dog Lil Dude runs down the stairs.  I start up the stairs and there is my sissy!  I go up as fast as my fat ass can handle it to hug her and start crying.  My hubby and sister had planned a surprise visit. 

Then this morning Paul wakes up and says he is going to go get donuts and coffee for us and repeatedly asks me if I'm going to get up and shower while he's gone.  Yes, yes, yes.  So, I get up early (9am) and shower and actually get dressed (cause my sister is here and we are going to get a Christmas tree this morning) and even put on make up (cause I'm going out in public).  Paul returns just as I get downstairs and we eat our donuts and watch tv and then he says he's going into the basement to watch sports.

After awhile I hear him on the phone and then he calls me to come downstairs.  Karin and I head downstairs and there are all these boxes.  It was like Christmas morning!  And there are baby showers decorations and Paul tells me we are having a virtual baby shower and his computer is on and all my friends are on there (well a lot of them).  Paul had rented a po box for people to send the gifts to and then kept them at his office.  The po box got so many boxes that they emailed Paul and told him he had to come pick them up.  lol

So I sit down and we have a skype baby shower (thank you Paul, Karin, and Emily and everyone who helped plan it)!  Thank goodness skype upgraded their service to be able to have video conference calls where you can see all the people.  And my Valdosta friends had mimosas and a huge brunch spread and we got to see Anne-Marie's Charlie Brown Christmas tree and Cory's snow and it was so great to see everyone!  I couldn't believe how many gifts Emma got.

The entire day all I could think about was how blessed in friendship I am.  It is humbling.  Truly I can't imagine how I got so lucky to have so many people who are willing to put up with me.  lol  And the people that I call friends are truly amazing, inspiring people as are my sister and husband.  

After my fantastic, surprise shower we went and got the Christmas tree and came home and decorated it (Karin and I haven't decorated a tree together in umpteen years) and then my loving husband went and got us Cheesecake Factory take out for dinner and we all watched a movie in front of the fireplace. 

What a great, great day!