Best Surprise EVER!!

After getting the kids in bed I was pooped and depressed. I know it seems silly, but I was sad that I hadn't talked to my best friend and her girls for Mason's birthday. I think being exhausted just helped blow things out if proportion and I was just bummed because she is so far away now and I felt like she was probably up at her new house having fun and making new friends (which I can't fault her for doing) and was just busy living her life. I guess I have just felt lost and lonely and its been a tough three weeks. 

So I did what I've been doing the last few weeks and went to bed early. Vaughn stayed up and watched tv in our room. A little while later I woke up to Taysom crying and Vaughn was picking him up from the pack and play in our room. I was so exhausted I didn't even realize that Taysom had not been in our room earlier, but now he was.  I saw that Vaughn had it under control and went back to bed. Later, I again heard him crying so I thought I'd better go help Vaughn. So I walked out to the living room and saw Vaughn changing Taysom's diaper. He told me he had it under control and to go back to bed. What was weird was that he was watching tv in the TV room and not our room. I was a little confused, but if Vaughn tells me that he will take care of Taysom at 1:45 am, then who am I to ask questions?!

I went back to bed and the next thing I know someone is jumping on me and yelling at me to wake up, wake up, wake up. So many things went through my head. From I'm being attacked, to the house was on fire or someone had died. I started screaming. I was a little (and by a little I mean a LOT!) freaked out! Once I got my eyes open I knew that someone had died and it was my best friend. What other possible explanation could there be for her to be sitting on top of me yelling for me to wake up?! Once I saw it was her I screamed even more. I was SO SURPRISED! She shouldn't be here, she shouldn't be sitting on my bed, she should be in Washington so many hundreds of miles away. But she wasn't. She was here!! She was honestly here! In my room! At 2:00 am in the morning!! I remember saying something like that  she was here, she was really here and then I think I asked her why she was here! 

I guess I screamed so loud that I woke up Drew! Drew is such a deep sleeper and sleeps on the opposite side of the house! Whoops! When he saw Alayna he got all excited as well and asked where her daughter, Aubrey was. He was sad and disappointed to find out that she didn't come with them. 

We stayed up for a little while chatting and I was so sad to hear that they would be leaving to head back early afternoon the next day. We all headed to bed and I could not sleep! I couldn't believe that she was here, in my house! 

We didn't get to spend that much time together, but it was just what I needed. It was sad to see her go, again, but we have plans to go see them soon, so that made it so much easier! Now I am just anxiously counting down the weeks!