top ten indiana incidents

#10.chip to ruhama about missing a stop at arby’s, “we could have had nourishing food and you went to mcdonald’s? aaahh!”

#9. pete* to no one in particular as we pulled suddenly over on an off-ramp, “yep, we ran out of gas. we sure did.”

#8. pete to once again no one in particular as we came to the stop sign at the top of the ramp, “is it clear? is it clear? yep, we are going to go.”
#7. pete to jesus, “thank you jesus for hills.” as we coasted from going up the off ramp down into the gas station.

#6. pete to natalie, chris, and me, “power steering is SUCH a blessing.” (you know since the car was shut down completely, it took all of pete’s strength to steer the car to the gas pump.)

#5.natalie** to pete, “i would laugh if the tank was on the other side of the car.” (when we finally got to the gas station, natalie, chris, and i could not stop laughing. either could pete.)

#4. gianna to jimmy*** as he was about to leave the wedding, “hi!” (i hadn’t even gotten to say hello until he was leaving.)

#3. gianna to chris when we didn’t have a placecard for a table at the wedding, “i was super late with our rsvp and it wasn’t formal. i’m sure i missed the deadline and we didn’t get assigned a table because i randomly responded to an email 2 weeks ago.” (on a side note, however, i DID rsvp)

#2. gianna to chris and ruhama as we are driving through downtown chicago (right after the marathon on the SAME day), “what you guys AREN’T seeing is chip looking at the map, looking up, shrugging his shoulders, and saying, ‘turn right somewhere.'”

#1. chip about the map as he was tearing it up and throwing it to the front seat over ruhama’s head, “baaaaaahhhh!” can i just say the map was USELESS! we were taking turns back and forth trying to see where we were and were getting no where!

* pete is chris’s cousin who is the nicest guy in the world. when you meet him you think, “what a nice guy.” but there is sooo much more behind him. this is the guy who when his 2 1/2 year old asked what jail was like, loaded the kids up in the van and took them to the county jail (just outside) and when they asked what it looked like on the inside, he took them home and showed them shawshank redemption. his little guy took it to heart and when mommy came home that day said to her, “mommy, do you like jail? i hate jail!!!!”

**natalie is pete’s super cool wife. i mean super cool. when pete started dating her, his little brothers told me that she was a lot like me. which i must say is so sweet (and i LOVE his “little” brothers), but totally not true because natalie is SO much more comfortable in who she is than i am and she is SOOO way cooler than i will EVER be. oh, and read the hyperlink about natalie….she’s the one who i have been pregnant with EVERY time i’ve been pregnant. and you guessed it, they are expecting number 4 six weeks after we are.

***jimmy is pete’s youngest brother and i LOVE him. there is something about jimmy that is so endearing to me. for one he was in our wedding when he was 10 and for two i just LOVE jimmy! once again WAY cooler than me, but since i’m 10 years or so older, i don’t mind.

so that is our trip in a snapshot. word pictures can be so much better anyway, right?