Wife of the Year? or maybe just plain crazy!

Okay - for all of you who know my sweet darling husband - you know he loves, loves, loves football, TV, and the occasional X-Box marathon. Well, I wanted to surprise Nick for his 38th birthday (wow that's old). Originally I had tickets on hold for the BYU vs. San Diego State game in San Diego - I thougt it would be fun for the both of us to have a little get away - however, Nick is the project manager for his company, a retail Co., so October though December is a really crazy time. So that idea was out, darnit. After a few other ideas, I finally decided to cave and surprise him with Halo 3. He loves Halo and I pretty much hate it -but this is about Nick and what he loves.....so I ran down to Best Buy the morning Halo 3 was released and grabbed one of the last copies available. As I'm heading to the check out, quite proud of myself, I noticed that it said Halo 3 for X Box 360, well we have a 4 year old X-box, so I ran over to the Best Buy guy and said I need the Halo 3 for regular X-box, he laughed at me and said they don't make Halo 3 for X-box only for X-box 360 - I proceeded to say that I hate X-box, and was left in a little prediciment. What to do - the saleman sensing my frustration started talking to me about how much better the graphics are for X-box 360, blah, blah, blah - don't care, but I really wanted to surprise him. As I left Best Buy $500 later, I decided that I was indeed a candidate for Wife of the Year, always sacrificing!

I was so excited to finally surprise him for his birthday. I quickly got Cole out of the car, swore him to secrecy, and because we were runing late for pre-school I left the bright yellow Best Buy bag on the fender of the car. I ran inside, fed Cole a quick PB&J, and ran upstairs to grab him a sweatshirt, and as I was walking down the stairs I heard Cole talking to someone - to my surprise it was Nick home for lunch. Now, my sweet husband has been home for lunch all of 3 times in the last 3 months, no joke, so of all the days to come home (yes, the Best Buy bag is still on the fender - Aghh). He gave me a little smile, and I froze for a second trying to remember where I had left the bag. I calmly asked him if had seen anything - to which he replied "you mean the bag with Halo 3, an X-box 360, and a wireless controller that was left on the fender". Now we have to remember a Best Buy Bag to a male is like a Nordstrom bag to a female - so of course he looked, I couldn't even be mad - so my fabulous surprise ruined, not to mention my last weekend before Halo 3 became a part of our home. He was thrilled and quite surprised that I would buy him something I pretty much detested. So the jury is still out...wife of the year or just plain crazy - you be the judge!