On Friday, Becca and I had our first girls only (plus Brandon) outing since Jess and Ness were here months ago!!! We had to go to the bank, and then we went to the mall for a while before heading off to Wal-mart to get some much needed items. The day started out with Jariah not being able to find his keys, which meant that the guys had to drive Zion’s black car (with its expired Ohio plates…) so I would have my car. Jariah looked everywhere for his keys before he and Zion absolutely HAD to leave for work, then Becca looked for about 2 more hours before giving up and we were ready to go.

Just before Becca and I headed out the door, I double checked my purse to make sure I had put my credit card back, (it was out the night before to purchase airplane tickets…) and what did I see? JARIAH’s KEYS were in MY purse!!! Weird, right? I thought so, too, and said to Becca…. “Hey, here are Jariah’s keys right here in my purse, I wonder how they…” and mid-sentence, I saw that Brandon was trying to shove a Veggie-Tales video into my purse…!!!! Mystery solved!!!!!!!!

Okay, so we walk outside (which is always a bit nerve-racking…) Becca with both sets of keys so she can get the stroller from her car and put it in mine, and me with Brandon, the diaper bag and my purse, and Becca opens her trunk, grabs the stroller, hands me her keys and uses my keys to open my trunk, drops the stroller AND my keys into the trunk of my car, and shuts it up!! ACK!!! Okay, so now we figure that we are probably gonna just have to take her car and not have a stroller, but luck is on my side and Zion had left the driver side door unlocked, so we just had to remove the car seat from the back, and Becca had to crawl though into the trunk with a flashlight and grab the keys.

Meanwhile, since it took both of us to get the car seat undone, (it’s the newer one that we keep in my car, and we haven’t ever moved it since Jariah installed it, so it took us a couple tries…) Brandon was sitting in the dirt (affectionately known as our ‘yard’) playing with some plastic cookie container that must have fallen out of the trashcan when the guys took it outside the gate. We picked him up, dusted him off and hopped in the car and were off!!.... to open the gate….!!! We finally got on our way, and once we were away, everything was smooth sailing!! We got everything done that we needed to do and we even had some fun!!!

All in all, we did a snap-dog-job!!! (That’s my new expression...)