Surprise!

 In the beginning of February, Jason was invited to the Bechtel Global Business Meeting in Los Angelos. It is a huge honor to be invited to this meeting, there are only aqbout 300 hundred out of thousands of employees invited from all over the world. Of course after we saw that the meeting was in LA our wheels starting spinning thinking that we could both fly home to see family for a weekend before his conference, he could go to the conference and I would stay home for the week. Unfortunately, Jason wasn't allowed to take any additional time off. That's when my surprise visit idea came into play! I wasnt too keen on staying here for a week alone so we decided that I would fly home for the week while he was in LA. I remember someone saying once that there are very few surprises left in life... ever since I heard that I make a point to take advantage of any opportunity I have to surprise the people I love!

Nicole was the only one that knew that I was coming home from our family, she's the best at keeping secrets! :) I flew out March 14 from Gladstone and arrived in Cincinnati the same day (Love when the time change works in your favor!) Nicole had asked Brian to take a ride with her that night, Brian was anxious to see where they were going, when they arrived at the airport Brian asked Nicole if she was taking him somewhere (It was the start of his spring break!). She then told him to guess again, his next guess was right...Jackie is Home!! The three of us plotted how we would surprise my parents when we got home. They were already expecting to facetime with Jason and I that night. We decided to just knock on the door... Dad opened the door and was in complete shock! I dont think he knew what quite to think, he was speechless....all that could come out was..." Does your mother know about this!?" I then started yelling for my mom to come upstairs. She thought it was my voice from the Ipad and began to run for the stairs...where then she saw me standing at the top of the stairs!!

 

During my week at home, I celebrated my 28th birthday with my family, friends and Bucky Boo! It was such a great week catching up with friends from Cincinnati, Columbus, Lexington and Louisville! We are definitely looking forward to our visit in June/July when Jason and I will be home together!