An unfortunate fire incident, birthday lunch, spastic crash and burn, choir concert and hot date….just a few highlights from my week.

Let’s review.

SUNDAY & MONDAY-

Home sick. :(

TUESDAY-

Spent the evening with Kylie, homeschooling.  We got most of our books and started on spelling and Idaho history.  I am amazed at how bright my daughter is.  It was nice to sit with her and work together.  I am looking forward to homeschooling her and getting to know her better in a different way.

After a long day, Kenny ran me a bath with rose petal bubble bath and candles.  The water was the perfect temperature.  I closed my eyes, leaned my head back and sighed as I sank into the sudsy water.  As I soaked a thought came into my head. **Huh.  What’s that strange crackling noise?**  About the time it registered, the smell hit me.  I sat up in a rush.  “Kenny, is my hair on fire?!!!”  Kenny looked at me and in a very unconcerned tone said, “Ya .”  You would think he would yell something to the effect of, “HOLY CRAP YOUR HAIR IS ON FIRE!”, but no.  I spastically started flipping water on my hair.  “Is it out?”   My darling husband replied, “nope.”  He then scooped up a huge handful of water and doused me and the fire.   I asked again, “Is it out?”  My husband replied, “Ya.  The flames were like 3 inches high.”  I wasn’t sure how bad my hair was but I had a hair appointment scheduled for Friday.  I just figured I might have to cut it short again.  Luckily when I washed my hair and dried it, the damage was minimal.  It only singed the ends of a small portion of hair.  Note to self: be aware of burning candles.

WEDNESDAY-

February 3rd is my mom’s birthday (see separate post).  I took my mom to lunch at Costa Vida.  The restaurant was packed for the lunch hour.  We set our food down and I headed across the restaurant to get our forks and napkins.  As I took a step forward, I landed on my heel weird and my leg went flying out from under me.  I tried to over correct and catch myself but had too much momentum.  I tried to stop the fall but in my head I knew…. **I am going down and it isn’t going to be pretty!**  This wasn’t a quick fall.  I was about 7 feet away from the window I eventually ran into.  I flailed my arms and legs as I propelled forward trying to stop the inevitable.  As the window loomed closer I went down on one knee and reached out to catch myself.  One hand slammed the wet floor sign into the window.  When the sign collapsed together the loud clap it made echoed through the restaurant.  **Oh crap! Now EVERYONE is going to look at me sprawled out on the floor** My other hand didn’t stop me as I cracked my head against the frame of the window and smashed my face on the glass.  I seriously felt my brain rattle around in my head when I hit.  It hurt.  But all I cared about was the 30+ people I KNEW were  staring at me.  **PLEAE, oh PLEASE, do not let all the employees come rushing over.**  I pulled myself into an upright position, squared my shoulders and slowly looked over my shoulder to the right where the employees were working.  To my surprise they were carrying on as usual. **AWESOME!! They didn’t notice!**  I slowly turned to the left and looked over my shoulder to the entire restaurant.  No one was looking at me…..except two hot men that looked like models.  Of course.  **How in the world did nobody HEAR THAT!?**  The men stared at me with startled expressions, the corner of their mouths twitching as they tried to suppress their smiles.  I walked back to my table and asked my mom to survey the damage.  I hit my head so hard I thought I had cracked it open.  Alas, no worries.  I was fine.   I do think I gave myself a mild concussion though. 

I always think it is hilarious when people fall, so after I figured I would never see the two people that witnessed the embarrassing incident again,(knock on wood) I laughed about it.  In fact I would love to see if Costa Vida has a video of the fall.  That would be entertaining. 

THURSDAY-

Kelsey was one of 11 alto singers chosen from her school to sing in the Honor Choir.   They took kids from each of the Junior High Schools.  The girls did such a good job and sounded so beautiful.

FRIDAY-

The Pocatello Chamber of Commerce holds an annual fundraiser, February Fantasy.  This year the event was held at my hotel and Kenny’s work, Robert Allen Auto Group, sponsored the event. Of course, we both attended.  I had a wonderful evening with my husband and friends.  My husband is SO wonderful about taking pictures with me, as you will see below.

The Robert Allen Auto Group table

Haley, Me, Manny and Susie

And here is our awesome photo shoot…..

Apparently I am married to Gene Simmons from KISS??

 

SATURDAY-

On Saturday Kristi and I had an open house for our First Impressions Businesses.  A big thank you to Kelsey, Kendall and Kylie for helping me clean the house after a LONG week.  Susie the company founder joined us and we had a fun day.

 

Casting the Dennis kids 

Kristi took a hand impression of this 3 day old baby! She is so cute!  We are extending our Open House specials if you make an appointment.

1/2 off Baby hands

$20 off Wedding hands

Buy one get one 1/2 off

So here’s to hoping this week won’t be quite so crazy and will be without any clumsy, embarrassing, hair scorching, incidents. ☺