Fall la la la ha ha ha...

Each year Adam and I [well mostly I] rack our brains trying to come up with a Christmas gift for the girls that they will go nuts over. When they were littler this was relatively easy. However now that they are older and have discovered things like Nooks, iPods, Wii's and all other electronic things it has become increasingly more difficult to find a gift that is awesomely cool that does not need batteries or plug into something. You see I have a rule that gifts should require a kid to use more than just their thumbs to operate. I'll leave all the techy gifts to their grandparents to supply, as for me, my gifts will continue to be fun, and hopefully tire the kiddies out. But this year I was stumped.

I thought and thought and thought....

And then finally I had an idea!

 It was brilliant! I pictured how excited the girls would be.

So I raced off to the store to pick it up.

But when I got there all that was waiting for me was a giant and heavy box.

No worries, Adam will help me get this loaded into the house right after the Christmas eve party...[you know, the party where I was the DD.]

The box was heavier than I remembered and Adam was a little happier than I planned for and then there was that little step...

YUP! You guessed it. I tripped and fell backwards. But the problem was...

It was a really heavy box and Adam couldn't hold it alone, so...

Naturally the box landed right on top of me. Adam was all full of help. Welll right after he finished laughing his butt off...

He picked it up and we got it into the house. And a short time later.

The kids woke up and found this...

They were so excited, until they opened it up and found this...

Once they realized it was not just a giant brown box and that it was really  a GIANT [and HEAVY] trampoline they were both dancing with excitement!

Next year I think I'm going to get something smaller, like a puppy.