Surprise!

It's not often that one gets completely surprised in life. I'm not talking about the kind of surprise that happens when your favorite tv show pulls out a twist to the plot...I'm talking about when you are completely floored and you feel so light-headed that you have to sit down. It's happened to me three times; when Woody flew out to surprise me for my 21st birthday, getting engaged and my birthday present this weekend.

I ended up being really sick the day of my birthday, which was an obvious bummer, but I was hoping to be better for the next day. Woody was planning on taking me out to a surprise dinner and the Nuggets game after we went up and cut our Christmas tree down in the mountains. That morning he told me he had to do a few things at work before we left. He also said that a FedEx would be coming that morning and that I shouldn't open it without him. Of course I was curious about the FedEx's contents, but I figured it was tickets to something that night. Anyways, he played it all real smooth and I was clueless. A couple hours later he returned home. A few minutes after that the doorbell rang and he asked me to get it. I opened the door expecting the FedEx man...instead I got Karen McLean, my dear friend from Santa Barbara! Wow, was I blown away. Completely shocked and so excited that I got to spend the weekend with her. The perfect present!