The Kids Get to Go Out

At work we had a contest that ran three months long. The kids who sold the most margaritas got to go on an outing. My boss and other managers were cool enough to elect me to get to take them. At first I was going to take them to do Laser Tag. However, laser tag and dinner gets pretty expensive very quickly. I found a great deal at this place called Incredible Pizza. It's a kid's pizza place that also has games we can play. This one has a Christian owner, so sometimes it a little weird. We bowled in a bowling alley that was playing Christian rock videos, which would be great for a youth group, but these are waiters/waitresses. So anyway, the kids are like yah yah, we're going to a Christian pizza place, but little did they know that I had a huge surprise for them. I kept them guessing all night. After dinner, I piled them all in to my Xl-7 (it seats 7 comfortably) and drove them to the Spiritbank event center where I surprised them with John Legend tickets! It was so fun. Some lady just dropped by the restaurant and handed them to me. Maybe God was really happy I was taking the kids to a Christian pizza place. I don't know, but it happened just as I was getting ready to walk out the door, so it was perfect timing and everything.
John Legend was awesome! If you haven't heard of him, you have to listen to him. His music is what I like to refer to as "panty dropping" music. He's got a super sexy voice and sings about making love, being in love and heartbreak. His entrance was my favorite part. First, there was this guy that was standing down in the sound booth who looked just like him. People were gathering around taking pictures of him and staring at him. We were totally thinking it was him, but then the guy just leaves and goes somewhere else. While we are standing there feeling stupid the lights go down and someone starts singing. He had been sitting in the audience and sang most of his first song IN the audience. It was pretty cool.
Check him out for yourself at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnZkVOtFAiI.

Who's on the Phone?

Is it just me or shouldn't your fiance/husband/boyfriend always warn you when the mother-in-law is on the phone? I've told Kevin this time and time again and he never does it. I don't know about you all, but the stuff that comes flying out of my mouth when I think nobody is listening isn't the type of stuff I want my mother-in-law to hear. If you know me, then you know I talk a lot and most of what I say is supposed to be a joke. I am sarcastic and obnoxious, but I am only saying it to be funny. Anyways, he just did it to me again tonight. I was in here griping out this lady on TV (not seeing the phone) and I mean just letting this lady have it! Then I hear Kevin say, "Oh that's Sara. She griping at this lady on the TV because...."

The Engagement

So people want to know how it happened. We were vacationing just south of Cancun, Mexico. We had been there three days, so an engagement was far from my mind. We had taken sailing lessons the day before and decided to try out what we had learned. I started driving and freaked out. We had seen a giant jelly fish the day before and I just kept picturing us tipping over and me getting attacked by the jelly fish. I was very upset and said, "I am done. Just get me out of here. I just want to go back to shore." I probably threw a few curse words in there too. I was terified. Kevin takes over and gets us going towards shore and says, "Can you hold this for me?" as he is reaching in his pocket.

"Hold what?" I say. "You're the one with the pockets." I am holding on the the sailboat so tight my fingers are changing colors. I wasn't about to let go to hold something.

He pulls a box out of his pocket and says, "Will you marry me?" Suddenly I wasn't so scared of jelly fish anymore.