This is a funny story I want to type up so my family will always remember it. Do you ever have those moments where you wished you were being video taped?! Well, today I did because it was dang funny. As you read the story...make a mental picture in your head...
So my family and some other families got together and wanted to leave an "anonymous" Christmas donation for someone who could use a little help this year. We got together and pulled some cash and put it in a little box that said, "Merry Christmas, Love Santa Claus" and Jared and I said we would deliver it since we would be in that neighborhood.
We loaded up the kids, headed out, and noticed that their car was parked out front, so we knew they were home. Jared dropped me off at the house and then drove around the corner and I placed the package ever so carefully on the mat and rang the doorbell 3 times in the friendly doorbell ring which would say: "someone is here and surprising you, come and open me up". I ran off as fast as I could, ran past the old man neighbor who was outside smoking a cigarette staring at me and smiling and I looked at him and smiled and put my finger over my mouth and shouted, "SHHHHHH!".
We waited about 4 to 5 minutes thinking the coast was clear and that they should have picked it up by then. We rounded the corner ever so slowly and drove past only to discover our package lay their untouched. What a let down.
"Ok, we will try again...perhaps they were in the bathroom or something" we were thinking. Jared dropped me off again and proceeded to round the corner while I rang the doorbell 3 quick times again and ran so fast I was huffing and puffing and hopped in the car. We waited again and thought, "surely it will be gone this time!".
Just to be sure we didn't get caught, Jared stayed behind the corner so they wouldn't recognize our car and I snuck up to the house only to be completely bummed out discovering that once again, the package lay there undisturbed. Now this is where the story gets a bit comical...I started to walk away unsure what to do; "should I try to open their car and stick it in there?", "Should I pick it back up and take it home?", "what should I do?".
As I am walking away I hear, "Carol?! What are you doing here?" I look up and discover they have opened the 2nd story window and see me. My reply in complete shock that I have been discovered and don't know what to do, "Uh, nothing!".
"Carol, have you been ringing our doorbell?".
"NO!" Now picture me turning around and just running away (can I also just say that this house is 30 minutes away so there is no excuse for me to be over there at all). In a panic I start running back to the car and Jared can tell on my face something is up so he throws the car in reverse and starts backing up thinking perhaps they are coming. I shout threw the window...."they see me, I don't know what to do, they haven't seen the package yet though, should I grab it?" He says, "I don't know!" So I grab the phone and call my friend who is in on the whole thing, "They saw me, they haven't seen the package what should I do? Hurry tell me!" My friend says, "I don't know, go grab the package, hurry!" So I hauled butt back to the door, grabbed the package and as I am turning and starting to run away the door opens....bum bum bum(intense scary music noise from the movies) they open the door start to say something, I keep running and their dog gets out and now their dog is chasing me!
(ok so its not really these type of dogs it was just a little one but still!). I am still on the phone with my friend and I am panting and saying, I am running, they've seen me grab the package and now their dog is chasing me!" I look at Jared and say, "hurry go get the dog, they are running up and down the street trying to catch it and now they are getting mad cause they don't know what we are doing and their dog is out!" He just looks at me and keeps sitting there. I told my friend on the phone, "ok you tell them what we are doing, I don't know what to say and now I need to go chase their dog before they get more angry at me".
I throw them my phone and told them to talk to my friend and they would explain and I will go chase the dog. I chase the dog in one direction and then he turns and starts heading towards our car so I yell at Jared to get out and start helping...he keeps sitting in there watching me so I turn and say, "Get your @$$ out of the car and start helping me!" He takes his foot off the break, angrily starts to get out, the car starts moving forward cause its not in park, he hops back in and says, "what am I supposed to do leave the car in the road?" in the mean time my friend is peeing her pants laughing on the other end while she hears all of this going on.
To end the longest story ever ... Jared caught the dog, put him inside, we got our phone back, told the people Merry Christmas and that we have a "surprise" present to give from a group of people, and we got in the car and drive off before they could open it and try to give it back. How does Santa go to everybody's house each year undetected?! Jared and I are
NOT as stealthy as we think. Mission failed.
I attribute the fact that I am married to the man I am married today to Nikki. She became such a great friend to me that when we both came back from EFY we got together a couple of times and spent the night together and she invited me out with her a couple of times and then we hit our senior year in high school and didn't talk much but when we both started our first semester at MCC we ran into each other at the institute building and being the amazing person she is she grabbed my hand and dragged me over to meet her friends. That's when I met Amy!
Amy and Nikki were the social butterflies of MCC. If there was a party, they knew about it, if there was a trip, they knew about it, anything that was fun and worth while, they knew about it. They would always take me and introduce me to everyone. From them I met a lot of people and long story short, I met Jared.
Last night we were blessed with the opportunity to go to Nikki's wedding and experience that with her. Everything was amazing there and the bride and groom were stunning. We even got to carpool with Bryant who translated for David's dad who is Columbian.
Nikki will forever and always hold a special place in my heart that makes me get teary eyed when I think of her. If anyone deserves to be happy it's Nikki and last night she sure was happy!
