is anyone out there???

YES, YES, YES!!! I mean...sure, that would be nice.

The car filled with balloons, on our way to deliver!

Heather with all the balloons.

Yesterday a guy gave me a rose with a balloon attached and asked me if I would give it to Heather after she finished playing her violin solo. We were at a Young Yomen in Excellence program at church and I happily gave Heather the flower. We spent the rest of the meeting wondering how we could pop the balloon to read the message we could see was inside the balloon without drawing too much attention to ourselves.

As soon as it was over, Heather grabbed her sisters and a few of the other young women and ran straight to the parking lot to pop the balloon. Inside the balloon was a poem asking Heather to homecoming. All the girls swooned at the sweet gesture.

It was already almost 8pm so we headed home to plot and plan. By the time we got home everyone ran to gather supplies and got started. It took all of us to keep up with Nicholas. He was a machine. Sarah printed and cut up "magic 8-ball" type answers. Heather and I rolled the strips of paper and put one in each balloon. Nick blew up balloons. He could blow up a balloon with only 2 huge puffs of air. Amazing. Sarah tied the balloons and Anna stuffed balloons into black garbage bags.

After blowing up over 100 balloons, sweat dripping down his face, Nick asked: "Can't you just say Yes?" And miss out on all this fun??? Anyway, we loaded the guy's truck with all the balloons. Inside each balloon were messages like, "Your answer lies within another balloon," "Concentrate and ask another balloon," and "You will find your answer in due time."

We gave a balloon with a "Yes" answer to his dad to give the guy after he'd looked through all the balloons. We're hoping he wasn't running late this morning so he wouldn't be annoyed to find his truck full of balloons instead of surprised.

And of course, we're hoping we put the balloons in the right truck.