lucky me...

i have never been a winner. i've never won the grand prize on publisher's clearinghouse...i've never won the big cabin-in-the-woods giveaway....i've never won the game of survivor. i've never even won a blue ribbon. heck, i don't think i've ever even won a game of risk. never won a thing... never, that is, until last night....

i'm sooooo excited!!! we went to eric's company party (which by the way, was a BLAST!!) and eric won a HUGE prize!!!!! we won two goblets (real fancy glass kinds w/kinky stems) and a bottle of non-alcoholic mixed berry bubbly and...get this...a one night stay in "the LODGE" room at the hines mansion in provo!!!!!!!  i'm soooo excited!!!!!

but it wasn't w/out a hitch... see, we were wandering around visiting w/people, and at the time of the drawing we happened to be sitting near some neighbor/friends/co-worker/carpooler-w/eric...and RIGHT BEFORE they called eric's name for the big prize, they called rusty's name for a car battery charger. eric has wanted that exact charger, and when they called rusty's name eric let out a "WHAT? THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MY NAME!" .....then they climaxed w/our "big prize" and eric could have dropped a tear. hahaha...he was trying to finagle w/the other couples at the table a trade. and i was busily running behind him whispering in the ears of the couples---'please, pleeease, noooooo!!! i have a charger in the closet for christmas!!! pleeeease!!!'.....simultaneously the wives were begging their husbands, "please, pleeeease, a romantic getaway!!!! pleeease!!!'..... i thought i even heard one of them mention something abt leaving the swimming suit behind this time... (yes, there IS a hot tub in the bedroom) wink*wink*

so, w/sweat dripping from my forehead, i held my ground. and we walked out of there w/our prize. i'm feeling so lucky, if i were a gambling fool, i'd be heading to reno. :) 

....ps: i just have to add that if you look at my prize picture, you will notice the best prize in the background. :) isn't he cute??!? :)