I'm going straight to hell

According to my sister that is. Ahhh, but the journey will be worth it. It's all John's fault anyways and if anyone tries to convince me otherwise I will deny it. Before you read this Mom, don't get mad. It really was John's fault. He and Jason did it together.

Sunday we go to my parents home for dinner to celebrate Katie's birthday since she turned 21. We get there at 4 and Katie and John are already there. Mom is racing around like crazy to get dinner ready and then has to leave to pick up Shannon and Nanny. Which leaves Jason, myself, and John and Katie there with the girls. I'm not sure what got us going, maybe it was the talk of different pizzas that we liked. We got on the topic of breadsticks and how wonderful it sounded. We knew that if we went to go get any that Mom and Shannon would beat us with a wet noodle and tell us we were going to hell since they are very against breaking the Sabbath like any other good Mormon. So we started talking about Little Caesar's crazy bread and how good it sounded. The conversation ended with Jason getting up and leaving the house. John ran after him and soon they returned with two packs of Crazy Bread. All of us circled the dining room table and snarfed down the bread as fast as we could. We kept a lookout at the window for Mom's car so we could hide the evidence in case she came while we were eating. All of us were laughing and eating and Chloe and Lindsey were in the thick of it!!! Everyone managed to get it all down and hide the wrappers before they arrived in Dad's garbage so we could blame him if she found it. (sorry Dad!!)

John kept teasing Shannon asking her that it would be great if we could have crazy bread. She said we would go to hell if we broke the Sabbath. Mom said that too or to the same effect. We were all sitting in the living room just grinning like crazy trying not to laugh. Dinner was such a wonderful feast that we all pigged out on top of the crazy bread we ate. I think we felt a little bad but it was such fun to have that secret and Katie was in on it and proved herself a true Kimball by being in on the fun and planning. Welcome to the family Katie! You have proved yourself worthy!

I hope when Mom reads this that she knows that we love her and Shannon and dinner was really wonderful on Sunday. Yes, we are going to hell, but it was such fun that I'm sure it will be worth it. If it makes you feel any better, I think that's what gave me such bad heartburn that evening.

And a quick note, I had a great time with John and Katie on Saturday afternoon. We didn't do much beyond eating out at Mongolian Grill, but it was nice to go out as two couples enjoying each other's company, not just Jason and I and my little brother and his girl. We have something more in common now and I truly think Katie was meant to join our family. She keeps John in line and he really loves her and he's grown up. Still a snotty little brother, but he's got a certain maturity to him now that is great to see. Poor Katie, she's stuck with us now!!!