Only because I drove!

Last night for Young Woman's we did a service project. But not just any service project it was a "Heart Attack" for the inactive girls. (Why this wasn't done a few weeks ago- ??? Who knows!)
We got out the big long church tables- you all know what ones I'm talking about- all LDS chapels have them. And covered them in pink and red construction paper. We wrote the 6 girls names on the board and they all began decorating and cutting out hearts.

I kinda felt like I was running a sweat shop! "Keep it up!" "More for Marcy" "Lets go!" I was running around collecting each heart as the girls would shout out when they were done. "Here's one more Sister Young" "Sister Young here you go" "Hurry take this one!" It was quite the ordeal. I even felt a little sweaty! (maybe that's why I thought it was a sweat shop! okay- sorry. Bad joke!) I was a little nervous that I was getting the heart piles confused! Hopefully little Samantha didn't get any hearts with Julie's name on it! Oh well- maybe she'll think it's a little pet name we gave her!

Then it was on to decorating the cookies. Yumm!!! They turned out cute and I thought " If I was inactive I would TOTALLY come back if I got some of these cookies." It was also a good bonding moment as a few of my mia maids and I wrote some of the girls poems. I'm not sure if you know this about me, but get me in the right mood and I become a rhyming diva!!! I think that the girls were impressed! One of the most favorite lines "We miss you here, in our hood. Seeing your face would feel so good!" I know. Hallmark is try to recruit me.

Then it was the moment of truth. The delivery. The rules went as follows. Put the cut out hearts all over the porch around the plate of cookies, ring the doorbell and RUN!!! Now that sounds like fun huh! It was weird for me to remember that I am a LEADER not just one of the girls. I needed to be responsible here! So because of Charlie there were lots of girls that wanted to go with me. (He is a handsome car!) I told them that there was really no reason to fight over us because there was a HIGH probability that we would get lost. I had no idea where the 2 girls that we were delivering them to even lived. But even with the warning, 4 girls still decided to risk it!

We said goodbye to everyone else and the 5 of us were on our own! Thats when the real adventure began. Have any of you been around 12 year old girls lately? Did you know that it is really hard to be sly and quiet when you're 12? Well...I had forgotten about that and was very quickly reminded of it on the first house we went to. We found it (luckily) and I parked a few houses away. The girls jumped out and we were all so excited. We turned the corner and that's when I saw a car coming. Very calmly I said "Just act natural". Apparently "natural" means squealing and running into each other. "Oh us?! We're not doing anything. Can't you tell? We're so natural!" It was funny. But THEN as the car gets closer we realized that it was pulling into the house where we were going- and it was the girl and her boyfriend! What are the odds? Wow- then all sorts of "natural" came from the girls. They forgot how to whisper and just did not know what to do . We must have looked like a circus. Even though I kept repeating- "Just keep walking". They were skipping, walking in circles and trying to just get out of the area! Just watching them was making giggle. I could barley hold it in!

We went a few houses down and hid behind some cars- waiting for him to drop her off and leave. Which he wasn't doing very fast. The girls were sure that they were kissing and thought that they should sneak up and make sure. I quickly shot that idea down and we decided to stay where we were and wait just a few more minutes. She did end up getting out of the car, but they just kept talking outside the house. I was hunched over right next to one of the girls. She must have gotten a great idea of something to say to me because she turned her head around real fast and BAM! Our heads collided. You know those times when you have to be really quiet, but something super funny just happened and you're doing everything in your power to hold it in? Then your checks and your stomach begin to hurt and then the tears start coming because your body wants to just let out a big roaring laugh? Yeah that was both of us. It took a lot to gain composure.

Well, the girl and her man stayed outside chating and I decided that we were not waiting around for them any longer. The problem was my car was on the other side of her house from where we were. Since the girl doesn't know me, I just told the girls to wait for me - and just be quiet...No more of this acting natural stuff! I made it to the car, picked up the girls anxiously awaiting me and we were able to go to the other house (without any problems I might add! Except for the noise. We need to practice our whispering skills!) Then we returned to house #1. The boy was gone and we were able to get it done!

Thankfully no cops were called (that we know of), we didn't get huge bumps on our heads where they hit, and we all had a great time!