Third times a charm

This is now the third time I am trying to write this blog. the first two were eaten by the hungry cyber wizards.  I think that is why my blogs seem to disappear. The cyber gods and wizards need someones words so they take peoples blogs to keep them satisfied. the bloggers are then frustrated and rewrite the blogs, and the wizards move on to someone Else's page. Multiply needs to add a blog save option in here. yahell used to do this to us, I really hope that part of yahell didn't transfer over here with the Multiply move.

Friday night our son Andy flew in from Washington. We hadn't told Alex cus we wanted to try and keep it a surprise. I tried to get alex to go to the airport with me, but the flight kept getting delayed, so I told him his dad would go with me to pick up my friend. I had told Alex's girlfriend and his friends his brother was coming in, so they kinda left him alone. His GF made sure he was home when we got here. Believe it or not, I was able to pull it off. Andy walked int he house first, and alex was there, think his dad was walking in the door. he had to do a double take to realise it was his brother. they hadn't seen each other in about 5 years.

After the hugs and a few pics(which turned out blurry in my excitement) the nonstop chatter started. I sat there happy as a clam listening to my two sons and john talking about so many different things. they talked and laughed and talked some more. It was the best. Alex told me he has never been surprised like that in his life. That is what I wanted.

Last night was the party we had been planning for him. I wanted to make sure he got to see his family from both sides and his friends before he started on this next journey of his life. Family is so important, and you really need to make sure to have them in your life. Well, alex is one of those lucky people that has a really great family on both sides of his family. Most of johns brothers and sisters and their kids were there last night. just two of my sisters were able to make it though. There was little kids and big kids all over the place. We ended up having about 50 people there, that is what we planned for.

We hired a dj to cover the music. I wanted to make sure we had a really good time for his last going away party. We just happened to find this dj by accident, but it was one of those really good accidents. he asked me to send him some pictures of alex and give him some info on him. I told him is passion is airplanes, and he put together a really cool slide show of air force jets and planes he found on line. For the pics I sent him, he put a separate slide show together with the music alex likes.

I am going to have to add his web page to my facebook page as a favorite. This guy is really good. He kept the music going all night long. He never took a break, and would jump between karaoke and music videos with a snap. He handed out microphones to people and had them singing with the music, it was just so much fun. I don't think I have danced that much in I don't know how long. We started dancing almost right after dinner. we stopped to cut the cake and make a short speech about alex and then we were singing and dancing again. I am going to have to post those pics here.

WE got home last night at 12:30 and into bed. as tired as I was, I could only sleep till 4:30 this morning. I tried to sleep longer, but it wasn't going to happen. So here i am, writing this for the third time.

On some other news. I went and got my hair cut the other day. I was gonna try and let it grow for a while, just for a change. i just couldn't do it. Anyway, i went in and told the girl just do something different, your the expert. So she cut the back, left some length int he front, died it darker in parts and put in highlights/streaks. I didn't like it at first, but i am liking it more and more. if I can find a picture from last night where I don't look like a sloppy drunk having too much fun, I will make it my new pic.

This is getting kinda long, so I am going to try and post it. This is where I have lost it the last few times. Well, here I go.See ya all next time.