on 8/22/2009...
The beginning....
Dan and his clever ways came up with an idea to write a script. All the while I thought I was having a "normal" birthday gathering at our bunkhouse. Lots of steak, lots of booze and lots of family/friends. It was laid back and casual. Then as people are getting ready to head out, Dan pulls a fast one...which would be a script out of his hands :) He gathers the family around and proceeds to tell all the guests to get into a circle. Right as I am about to sit down, they inform me that I am part of the script. I'm thinking...great here we go, I'm going to have an embarrassing story about something and then a picture of my naked caboose will magically appear on the television screen just to bring in my 24th year. Dan, my two siblings - Dean and Maddy, Dan's three sons- Collin, Logan and Devin and Dan's niece CJ all had their own loving parts in the play, including myself. As they started to read, I noticed that it had a depiction of how each and everyone of us is but in a funny "put a velvet blanket over your head and make it sound pretty" kind of way. As we start to reach the "castle on a sandy beach"...at this point I'm thinking, SCORE! Look Ma, I'm going to Cabo! But it continued into the "castle" without anyone showing up on my doorstep with a big check saying I won a million dollars...wait I was thinking about a trip to Cabo. Anyway....further along the story, a prince with a belly (yes he actually put that in there, it was hilarious!) comes down the winding steps and asks why we are all in his house...and as my character was explaining that we were going to leave, Prince Charming quickly tells the madam in distress not to go! This is where I started shaking and everyone started grabbing cameras and bootys (okay not the latter half). Dan told me that he wanted to get to the happily ever after part and gets down on one knee, says his lovely speech and ends it with me yelping "Absolutely yes!" Ahhh, I am so in love.
p.s. the kids and CJ knew about this for a whole two months and nobody narked! I give such credit
to them :)
The beginning....
Dan and his clever ways came up with an idea to write a script. All the while I thought I was having a "normal" birthday gathering at our bunkhouse. Lots of steak, lots of booze and lots of family/friends. It was laid back and casual. Then as people are getting ready to head out, Dan pulls a fast one...which would be a script out of his hands :) He gathers the family around and proceeds to tell all the guests to get into a circle. Right as I am about to sit down, they inform me that I am part of the script. I'm thinking...great here we go, I'm going to have an embarrassing story about something and then a picture of my naked caboose will magically appear on the television screen just to bring in my 24th year. Dan, my two siblings - Dean and Maddy, Dan's three sons- Collin, Logan and Devin and Dan's niece CJ all had their own loving parts in the play, including myself. As they started to read, I noticed that it had a depiction of how each and everyone of us is but in a funny "put a velvet blanket over your head and make it sound pretty" kind of way. As we start to reach the "castle on a sandy beach"...at this point I'm thinking, SCORE! Look Ma, I'm going to Cabo! But it continued into the "castle" without anyone showing up on my doorstep with a big check saying I won a million dollars...wait I was thinking about a trip to Cabo. Anyway....further along the story, a prince with a belly (yes he actually put that in there, it was hilarious!) comes down the winding steps and asks why we are all in his house...and as my character was explaining that we were going to leave, Prince Charming quickly tells the madam in distress not to go! This is where I started shaking and everyone started grabbing cameras and bootys (okay not the latter half). Dan told me that he wanted to get to the happily ever after part and gets down on one knee, says his lovely speech and ends it with me yelping "Absolutely yes!" Ahhh, I am so in love.
p.s. the kids and CJ knew about this for a whole two months and nobody narked! I give such credit
to them :)
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