Where to start....I guess I will just have to start from the beginning. I have been doing my student teaching this semester and it has been going great! (I only have five more days left, then I will have my degree!!) but that is for another blog post. My mentor teacher (His name is Billy) and I have become quite good friends, along with his family and Denton. Denton and I will babysit his kids and Denton will help him with projects around the house. So a few months ago, I told him that I was thinking about getting Denton a Jeep for Christmas. Not a big fancy one but a piece junk that he could fix up. He has been talking about getting one since we got married but we have never been in the position to get one before. Now with him working and me about to start working, I felt like it was a good time for him to get one. So when I mentioned this to Billy, he jumped on the idea and agreed to help me. He also said that Denton could work on the Jeep in his shop. Every day at lunch and after school, we would search craigslist looking for the perfect Jeep. We found one pretty quickly that to me was a piece of junk but one I knew Denton would love! Billy test drove it and found that it would be a decent project so I bought it.
Since Denton would be around his house quite a bit and would see it, we decided to tell him that Billy bought it. It has been an ongoing "lie" for about two months and I am surprised that I didn't ruin it. Denton was a bit jealous that Billy got a Jeep and so every couple of days he would talk about the time when he got his own Jeep. (Little did he know!) Since Billy is finishing his basement, we decided to have Denton help to "pay rent" to use his shop. Denton had no idea that was what he was doing it for so thankfully he was more than willing to lend a hand.
Originally I wanted to give him the Jeep on Christmas evening since we were going to be coming back home on that day, but now I am going to stay a bit longer to hang out with Whitney :) So I decided to give it to him tonight. I started off the night with a scavenger hunt that took us to dinner and hot cider and ended with him being blindfolded as I drove him around and lead him to the shop. This was the result:
This is Denton's reaction which was pretty good! He won't admit it but some tears were shed! Sorry it is kind of long. Notice I can't stop smiling :)
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