Surprised

It was my birthday a few weeks ago and my husband asked me what I wanted and I told him I wanted Brooke. He laughed but I was dead serious. She is one of my closest friends and I don't get to see much of her since she doesn't live close by. I got to hang out with her for about a week in August but she was getting married so it was a bit of a different visit. She was the most gorgeous bride I've ever seen but that's beside the point, I wanted to hang out with her and this was my birthday request.

Well, I happen to be a super difficult person to surprise, at least for my husband to surprise. He is terrible at lying and I pay too close attention to details around days that I receive presents so being surprised by him is almost non existent. So the weekend before my birthday I thought well maybe she'll come but he told me seriously that he had tried to get her to come and she just couldn't make it work. I sort of believed him but thought that's what he would say so when she didn't come I just thought she'd come closer to my birthday.

My birthday rolls around and I talk to her and she said yeah, sorry Mopo (my nickname) I just couldn't make it work with time off and she apologized a few times so I started to get sad and thought ok, it's not going to happen. My final hopes were dashed when the weekend after my birthday comes around and still no Brooke, granted it was Valentine's Day weekend and she just got married so they weren't too high to start with but still, Dom doesn't take my requests lightly and always pulls through so I was pretty sure I was going to see her.

So at this point I had given up, I was a bit sad but totally understood. It's expensive to just hop on a flight last minute and then you have your new husband that you don't want to leave and yada, yada, yada. I figured I would come and visit over the summer and we could hang out then. I had moved on and thought nothing more about it.

Well, this past weekend rolls around and it's late Friday night and Dom's brother calls and I can hear him over the phone sounding really bummed and asking Dom to please come pick him up in Sacramento, he has a flat tire. I tell Dom I'll change into some jeans, so as not to scare his family in my pjs and he said, oh no, that's ok, his brother and his wife and their dogs are all stranded, there'd be no room for me. I honestly thought nothing of it and said ok well be careful and he left.

Fast forward about an hour and I'm on the couch knitting and I hear the door unlocking and see Scram look at the door confused and then he started to bark. I just though Dom had surprised him so I started to laugh and looked around the corner, about to tell Dom how silly Scram is when I see Brooke.......I was floored! She just started laughing and then I cried......I'm telling you I cry at everything now, it's bad. I was SO happy to see her and COMPLETELY surprised. Dom really pulled it off, those two had been planning it for weeks.

We spent the next day walking around Auburn, buying books (pictured above) and then took a walk around the neighborhood. After that we went and surprised another high school friend that lives locally and had dinner at her place and played games. Brooke and I stayed up until 2:45am just talking and then gorged ourselves on doughnuts and cookies the next day before she had to leave.

It was such a fun weekend and I am utterly grateful for my husband and Brooke for being sneaky little devils and making it all happen so seamlessly. :)