One of those days

Yesterday was one of those days within the extended family, a little drama, a little humor. The following is based on a true story.

My brother in law, John, took his family to watch Jordan (my favorite niece, unless Olivia is reading this, then you are) run a half marathon near her college. According to reports she did well and passed her personal best with a time a little over 2 hours. (Note: I get tired riding in a car for 2 hours let alone running for 2 hours.)

On the way home the family stopped at Cabella's, which is to hunting what Bass Pro Shops are to fishing. Blake ordered a new hunting bow, possibly for his birthday, bought some arrows and the family hit the road home (visit#1). Well a short time later Blake realized that he had bought the wrong thing and being the good father that he is, John turned around and returned to the store (visit #2). While waiting for Blake to come out of the store, Pam took advantage of the time to go shopping at a nearby Target (Note to self: need to write a blog the creative shopping habits of the Allen girls), John waited in the car, took out his retainer (I thought there was age limit on those things?) and somehow it fell out of the car without him noticing it. So the family gets back in the car, back on the highway heading west when John realizes that he does not have his retainer. They turn around again and return to the store (visit #3) and pull up to the parking spot they had, just as someone was pulling into it and getting ready to run over the retainer, John jumps out scares the poor guy to death, but rescues the device and finally head home.

When they get home, an Asian couple arrives at their home to pick up the stove that Pam had decided she did not want any more. John walks out to meet them and warmly welcomes the 1st person to exit the car with a, "hello young man, how are you doing today?" greeting. To which the reply was, "I am the wife". Needless to say the rest of us were crying with laughter, not at John of course, but with him, because all of us make the same mistake of thinking that Asian women look like young Asian boys!!

The big news of the day on the Salyer side, Brandon shot 2 does yesterday, the last one was doe-zilla, weighing over 200 pounds. Unfortunately after he shot her, she ran through the woods into the heavy brush where it took over an hour in the pitch black to find her and carry her out of the woods, (with my help I might add). I saw parts of the Bonner farm I did not know existed.

Finally, pray for Kyle, Kellie and Brock on Tuesday, the adoption will be finalized and the little fella will be theirs forever legally.