SPOILED

Tonight was our May coffee - it was hosted by Becky Lucus and Jessica Dobbins, who did fabulous! It was at Becky's house (a bonus because she's right around the corner!!!) and they went all out. Appetizers & wine for starters, then out came the salad, homemade LASAGNA, and garlic bread! Whoa! Oh yeah, followed by two homemade desserts. They truly went above and beyond. Yes, we were all spoiled at the coffee. We played a few icebreakers and then it was time for the welcomes and farewells. Dani and I were asked to speak on behalf of Melissa. We convinced ourselves we could do it cheerfully, but I failed at the mission and the ugly cry voice came out. Uh, embarrassing! Oh well, I peeked over and Melissa had a few tears too and I knew she had to talk next, so I was secretly hoping she'd have an uglier cry voice then me. Nope, turns out mine won the ugliest. Oh well, it was an honor to stand up in front of the ladies and talk about what a great person Melissa was both professionally as the B Co FRG leader and personally as a friend. I did good until it got to talking about us surviving our second deployment together... Gonna miss her for round #3, for sure. Again, I've been spoiled to have Melissa as a friend. Unfortunately I have no pictures from the coffee. One of these days I'll remember to bring my camera! When I got home I was greeted at the door by a very excited husband and son. Apparently they had been shopping while I was out and had a special gift for me! Gavin kept saying "Present mama, present mama, open it!" I LOVED when I was handed a box in Santa wrapping paper!!! It made the gift all the more memorable that it was wrapped in Christmas paper. I ripped that paper off and was squealing like a little girl on Christmas morning (so maybe the wrapping paper was appropriate, after all). They had very generously purchased a new lens for my camera. A ZOOM LENS! Let me tell you, this lens is POWERFUL! I'm not a big gift person, but I was ECSTATIC. So, for the 3rd time tonight, I was spoiled. I am so blessed!

This photo was taken with the new lens, from all the way across the house! I told you it was powerful... 70-300mm, baby!!!!