bangs and tickets

everyone is sick of hearing about how much i love my job and how spoiled rotten i am to be a teacher in vegas. but let me share one perfect example why it really is the best job a girl could ask for! a week or two ago, i got my bangs cut. it was a pretty drastic cut. the first thing one of my girls said was "You look like Carly Rae Jepson!"

apparently i often take on little-girl-icon's appearances because all last summer i was ms. miley cyrus... eeww. i don't know if i've ever seen it... anyway, maybe the girls wanted to look like Carly Rae... or maybe they really did want to look like ME!

i just can't help but to adore these little girls. it totally made my day when on two separate days they came in with new straight-across bangs. the first mother told me her daughter even asked, "do i like ms. sierra?" the mother answered, "well she looks differant than you because she's older." then, her daughter asked, "do i at least look related to her?" haha little girls are so much fun to work with!

now for a good story to go down in hisory.

i spontaneously decided to look into buying Dallas Cowboy tickets to surprise my husband with for his birthday. i started looking into tickets in december. i had heard of this amazing website that has super cheap plane tickets and they just happen to fly to dallas, texas. so i probably spent a good hour experimenting with different game dates and plane/game tickets prices. it ended up that the cheapest time to fly was in september, and i also landed a super great deal on ticketmaster.com for $68 tickets. everything included, i got two roundtrip tickets and two game tickets for $405. that is an amazing deal. so i took it!

i just couldn't wait to tell drake when i got home! i was bursting! i get home around 6 and he was off at 8 so i was expecting him around 8:15... and i just kept looking at that clock, counting down time. lori, the woman we're staying with, convinced me to make an even bigger deal out of this by preparing our feast on his plate, lighting candles, and creating a card.

this plus making a batch of cheesecake-brownies was all hurriedly done in 15 minutes. i was sitting on my bed, looking out my window waiting for the lights to his car to show up in the driveway.

8:15 passes

8:30 passes

when 8:35 passes, i call him worried something happened.

he simply informed me he was staying late to help out the people at work who had a lot of work to get done before they could close. he was being a good guy, and he had no idea of the big surprise i was dying to tell him. so how could i be mad? well, i still let myself get frustrated with the situation. i even changed my clothes and put on more makeup for this surprise! i rushed like a mad woman to get everything finished in time! i took pictures beforehand so i could post an amazing blog post about his reaction! so i got a little upset at the situation, and basically chucked his fish and artichoke dinner in the trash and called my sister just to vent my emotional-wreck-of-feelings. then, i went to bed in a grumpy mood. 

well, my sweet, sweet husband always can tell when i'm a little upset. but better yet, he knows how to make it better no matter what. he just handles me well. instead of being annoyed with me getting annoyed over the situation (i was never annoyed with him!) he looked at like this: it's sweet that i love him that much to make him dinner and want to be with him (this is before he even knows about the tickets.) so when he gets home, i kinda wake up a little bit as he comes in the room and fumbles around in the dark for a few minutes. when he leaves for the bathroom, i notice this note:

anyone that knows me very well knows i don't do well without milk in the house, and we'd been out for a couple days, so yes the milk comment is actually very sweet. then a milky way to take to work tomorrow? heck yeah. i've got the most amazing husband ever. after seeing the note, i just didn't care that my big surprise didn't work out anymore. i didn't care that he didn't get to eat the delicious fish i made, or enjoy the artichoke heart i saved for him, or be surprised with that dramatic card by candlelight, so i just told him there was another reason i was excited for him to get home besides dinner. then, i whipped out the card right there at midnight with no makeup, bed-head, and morning breath :) i think a good word to describe his reaction was confusion, then shock, then giddy excitement. learning that i spent $405 might have been a little hard to swallow, but overall, he was so excited :) he just had a  grin on his face like a little boy and he wrapped me up in a big hug. so even though my night wasn't what i had planned, it still turned out great!

so after already feeling a lot better about the situation the next morning, i woke up to discover these two things on facebook. my husband is the greatest man in the world, he is so good to me, and i love him with my whole heart! 

clearly, we are extremely happy :)