Exciting news!

I will probably post more later on, but for the moment I would like to say it has been an exciting 24 hours! Liisa called and woke me up at 7:15 yesterday morning to say that her and Jesse are engaged--he proposed at 6:15 a.m. CST, on the beach in Myrtle Beach, at sunrise, near intercoastal waters, and she said yes! Then they went to the car show, where he won $500 for travelling the furthest distance to enter, and this morning showed up at my front door (around 5:45 a.m.) to "say hi" and crash for a few hours before continuing on to Minneapolis! It was like "wow! Where do we put them?" because Aurora had 2 girlfriends here sleeping on the futon in the loft (after an evening at the library watching "Twilight" at the release party held there), and Cliff brought 2 friends over after work, who were crashed in the living room! Then we remembered the boy's room was open, because Patrick was at a friend's overnight, and Reimond was at a different friend's house overnight as well! So we found extra blankets and pillows for the three of them--Liisa, Jesse, and Jesse's good buddy Jeremiah, and they bunked down in there. Guess we won't be headed to church this morning! Eric and Patrick (who came home for 8 thinking we were going) headed to go pick up Rei, and get a few groceries, while I am finishing a second cup of coffee and headed to pick up the kitchen so we can make a mega-breakfast for 14 (??!!??!).

And I wonder what my neighbors are thinking about the hearse parked out front with the vanity plates that read "6ftUNDR"????