I Just Found My Birthday Present (Revisited.)

A package came for me in the mail the other day.  It was from my in-laws.

My birthday is coming up and it was a surprise present from them!!!

Side note:  WHY don't we send packages/letters in the mail anymore???  I get it, I do.  It's faster/cheaper to fire off an email or a text.  But really, do you know the joy I get from receiving something by mail? 

(Seriously, if I didn't already realize it wasn't meant to be for me to grow up as Laura Ingalls Wilder, I would totally be all over living in the 1800's and receiving mail by Pony Express.  However, if you've read my blog for any period of time, you'll remember the giant spider story.  And  my realization that outhouses are not my gift.)

Okay!  Back to my story.

My in-laws sent a package.  I love my in-laws.  Have I told you that?  And not just because they sent a package in the mail.  They are truly wonderful people.  They have put up with me for the past 10 years and for that I am forever grateful.

So Mr. Postman brings the package to the door and I grab the scissors.  For some reason J.D. picks up the camera and starts firing away.  (This is a pretty big deal in our house...let's just say the ratio of pictures taken by me and of me are a little skewed.)  All the while J.D. says he doesn't know what's in the box. 

So why did he feel the urge to take pictures?

I've thought about it and I think his women's intuition kicked in and he just knew we'd want to have documentation of my reaction to the package.

Here I am slicing open the box. 

Not that you'd need that commentary to figure it out.

Wow.

Even the cords in my neck are excited.

And my three chins.

(Please remind me never to look down in the future.)

(Rule number one:  Look down only with the eyes, Kandi...only with the eyes.)

"Ha!"

(Now I know what it is.  It pleases me oh-so-much.)

"HA!!!"

(Apparently I throw my head back when I laugh.)

  (Not a great look when frozen for all time by the camera.  Hopefully not quite as bad in "real  life.")

(Okay, rule number two:  don't throw your head back when you laugh, Kandi.)

Now that, my friends, is a look of true happiness on my face.

Do you recognize the gift, yet?

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How 'bout now?

It's the Hummingbird Helmet!!!!!

(New readers to my blog are scratching their heads and closing their browser windows right about now.  If you've stuck with me and want to know the back story, click here.)

My father-in-law is a handy fellow.  I really believe he can build anything he wants to.  And when he saw my post about the Hummingbird Helmet (click the link above), he wanted to build me my very own Hummingbird Helmet.

He's got a great sense of humor, too.  He also sent me a package of camouflage face-paint in case I want to (and I quote) "really get into it."

I'm smiling right now.

If it doesn't rain tomorrow, I will be outside testing out the helmet.  There are still many young hummingbirds in the Northland that need some sugary fuel for their trek South. 

And who knows?  Maybe they'll like me so much they'll come back next year.

I'll be sitting in my lawn chair with my helmet on waiting for them.

:)