Wii Found It! -- the chronicles of Sam's birthday

Day after day this last week, I've called and visited store after store in search of the Wii. Today I went to Best Buy and was informed that they had just had 30 of them on Sunday. They were gone in 1/2 an hour. I then went to GameStop. They said they'd not had one for 2 weeks, but call later in the afternoon. I then went to Walmart. They said it would be another month. So I called JM as I'm headed to K-Mart. I give him 2 stores to call since I have no phone book with me. The first one he calls-No Wii. The second one he calls-YES, we just got 2 in a few minutes ago. So I tear out of the parking lot to the other side of town (12 minutes away). I'm praying "Please God, let there be a Wii, after all, it's Sam's birthday." Of course, I get behind every slow driver in town. Finally, I get there. There are 2 people ahead of me in line. I'm praying they're not wanting a Wii. They don't! There's one there just for Sam!

We decided to keep it a secret for several hours, as Sam is suppose to be working on his Science experiment tonight. We gave him his other birthday presents, which included a Wii game. We have birthday cake and do the science experiment. Finally, it's 8:45 pm. We tell him he has to pick up his room before bed. He picks up his blanket off the floor and there is the wrapped Wii. Of course, we had to stay up even later to set it up and get a little play out of it.
By the way, Sam did pay for the entire thing!

Wednesday evening after supper I broke my glass dishwashing detergent bottle. It was completely full and spilled into the open dishwasher. I spent 10 minutes sopping up the detergent off of the inside of the dishwasher's opened door. I then started off for church early as I was leading Bible study this night. JM was to come by 7pm. At 7pm John Mark was not there. We waited, I called and couldn't get in touch, and still couldn't figure out why he wasn't there. Finally, he comes in at 7:20. The dishwasher had exploded with bubbles all over the kitchen floor. He had stayed to mop things up. Then in his rush to get to church, was pulled over by a cop for going 41mph in a 30 mph zone. Thankfully, the cop was nice enough to just give him a warning.

Some pics from the last few days...

Sam looks at his 12 birthday candles on his strawberry jello cake.


Sam on his new scooter.


Sam opens the Wii.


Swirly Swirl contemplates how she can destroy her new rival RoBob the goldfish. Turns out she didn't have to have him for lunch, he was belly up by Thursday.