Remember the boy who was gone from Awana's for a few weeks? Well he has been there the last two weeks. The first week back he told Chad he wanted to be his Pen Pal. So Chad gave him our address. And this is the letter that came:

"Dear Mr. DeShon,
Hi. I hope your having a good time? I don't have a lot to say but I only tell my best friends i'm a picies. (Pisces?) Can I call you Chad insteade? I wish you were my dad.
If your wife found this then its ok if you read it to her. I think your the best leader ever.
P.S. Should I write in cursive?"

Today is my day off.

And I'm at work. So here is a story to give everyone a mid-week cheer.

I know that some of you have already heard this story because Chad has a big fat mouth, but I'm sure I tell it better anyway.

So we are on the shuttle bus from the airport to economy parking after our flight back into KC. I leave my phone on the bus, but I don't know that. We get home about 11, and around 11:45 I start looking for my phone so I can set my alarm for the next morning. I can't find it. I used Chad's phone to call my phone in case I can hear it ringing somewhere. I don't hear it ringing, but I do hear, "Hello? Hello?"
So I say, "YOU HAVE MY PHONE!!" Why did I say it so accusingly? Did I think this guy stole my phone? No, I think I was just annoyed that it clearly wasn't anywhere near me.
He said, "I found it on the shuttle bus at the airport, do you live in the KC area?"
I said Yes, and asked where he was.
He said he lived in Overland Park and worked in Olathe, and as I was about to say how close we were, he said, "I work at Garmin."
So I said, "Shut up! My husband works at Garmin!" Why did I say "Shut up!?" I never say that! It's so highschool-15yearoldgirl-annoying!
I continued, "His name is Chad and he works on the 6th floor, will you get it to him tomorrow?" He said he could do that, and I went to bed, happy that it was all going to work out just fine.

Monday morning before Chad went to work he was checking his email and said, "Hey, do you know who you talked to last night?" I started to feel a little sick, because really, what question like that is going to have a good answer?
He said, "Cliff."
I said, "Crap."
He said, "You know, the COO of Garmin."
I said, "CRAP!"
He said, "You totally called the COO of Garmin in the middle of the night and practically commanded him to deliver your cell phone to me."
I said, "And, I told him to Shut Up!!"

Apparently, Cliff had his secretary track down Chad, send him an email that she now had the phone and would bring it to him whenever he got into the office. So thanks Cliff for being so nice about the whole calling in the middle of the night, telling you to shut up and ordering you around thing. You're a good guy. And Chad thinks it is really cool that you use Economy Parking.

Ohmygosh, its it bedtime yet?  It is only 6:15 here - the boys are playing MarioKart, I'm just trying to stay awake.  I am super thirsty, but the water here tastes really bad, so I am rationing the 8 ounces of water I have left from a bottle.  I'm so going to get dehydrated.  

I only fell twice this morning and it took me till the very end of the morning to do it.  The first time I literally tackled both Josh and a complete stranger at the same time.  Sorry Josh.  The stranger was on a snowboard and didn't seem to know what she was doing and then Josh turned toward her a little bit, so I just took both of them down.  I think that is the first time I've ever fallen because of someone else.  Oh yeah, I also let out the girliest scream you can imagine right before I ran into them.  You know, as a warning that I was coming.  The second time was on the easiest Green hill imaginable.  While that is embarrassing, I would still way rather fall on an easy Green than when I'm flying a million miles an hour down a Blue, I think I am less likely to break something and I don't slide as far that way.  But don't worry, I'm sure I'll accomplish a Blue fall tomorrow.

End of day one - I didn't ski this afternoon, took a nap instead.  The boys just walked through the door, and I am starting to make dinner, spaghetti and meatballs.  I am blogging while cooking, cause the internet cable is in the kitchen.  Convenient, huh.  More to come later.  By the way, I would kill for a Dr. Pepper.

Here we are, sitting in the Durango airport, waiting for Josh and Dan to meet us and take us to the condo/hotel/resort/mountain area where we will be skiing and staying.  Chad is hungry, and therefore cranky.  There are 2 little girls running laps around this tiny airport and yelling, therefore I am also cranky.  

Why does Blogger still hate me? Does anyone read my blog in Google Reader? Because it looks totally different in Reader than it does at the actual website. So stop reading it in Reader and go to the website. Please.

Do you guys hate it when I don't post for 3 weeks and then I do 15 posts in one day? And even then they are just pictures? I know Josh hates it.

So we leave to go skiing in just a few days. Today is Saturday and we fly out Thursday afternoon. I should start packing! Or at least making a list of things to pack!

Flowers. Tiny Ones.

Why does Blogger hate me? It posts pictures in the opposite order I would like them to be posted. Anyway, these are my tiny flowers.

They are in a tiny red pot.

But why are they only growing on one side of the pot? I planted seeds all over the pot!



















Why does that one flower only have a stem and no leaves?



















These are the flowers next to a roll of paper towels for size comparison.

I love it when...

-People who come get their dog out of the pound don't bring a leash and refuse to use the leash I offer them. "Oh, she'll stay right with me. She's a good dog, she won't run off!" Right. The Animal Control Officer just came and took her out of your yard, right?

-Clients are nice to me. Yesterday a client who is a flight instructor gave me her card and insisted I call her when the weather warms up and she'll take me for a ride in her plane that has a front and back seat. You know what I mean? Like this, I assume. She seemed really sincere, so maybe I'll do it sometime. Without jumping out of the plane.

-I am trying to make an appointment for someone and I say "When is good for you to come in?" And they say "Anytime!" and then I name 57 different times, none of which are good for them! So by "Anytime!" they actually mean "Never!"

-The printer runs out of paper, the stapler runs out of staples and the tape dispenser runs out of.....wait for it.....tape, that's right, tape, all in 3 minutes during the busiest time of my day. How does that even happen!?

-The boss man tells me about the "Smokin' Hot!" nurse practitioner he saw last week! Talk about an uncomfortable work situation.

-Having blood pressure competitions with the boss man and having mine be consistently higher than his. AKA: Winning.

-Having clients with no sense of humer walk in while all our employees are standing at the front desk taking their blood pressure.

Weekend

I got to see one of my Awana girls get baptized yesterday at church. It was very nice, made me cry a little.

Chad had a friend over to watch the Super Bowl. A new episode of The Office was on after the game, the first 3 minutes was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Anyone else see it?

Someone is adopting one of the cats over at the shelter. He has been here a month and is super sweet, I'm so glad someone is taking him!

I drove to Topeka on Saturday to meet 2 different rescue groups that were going to take a dog and a cat that I've had at the shelter for a while. The lady who was going to meet me for the dog sent me a text when I was halfway there that said she was having car trouble and would have to reschedule for next weekend. Topeka isn't exactly close, and driving up there every weekend, (without getting paid for it), isn't my idea of a good time. So I'm going to try to figure something else out. Anyone in the market for Jack Russell? The cat meeting went fine, I cried a little (good grief, what's with all the crying!?) when I left him, he was such a good cat, I'm going to miss him!