Who stole who's purse? That is the question!

Tawnya came to Portland for a business trip and took a day off so we could play for the weekend. On my way to pick her up on Thursday night I VERY narrowly missed a huge accident. A big truck screamed past my right side while I was in the slow lane and cut me off so closely I could feel the van shake. I cried. What a blessing there was no accident. We all arrived home safely that night and happy to have Tawnya stay with us. Friday morning we all went to OMSI (Oregon's Science Museum)and had a great time!





That evening, Tawnya and I had a girls night out to dinner, shopping and a movie. Saturday morning we all went to the Oregon Zoo.



We had a picnic lunch during a birds of prey show.



Huge eagles and vultures were swooping over everyone. Tyler thought they were out to get him.

Later, Tawnya and I took off to go shopping again. First of all, we have identical black leather purses. When we'd set them down a couple of times we'd pick up the wrong one and then have to switch back. Well, at Kohl's we were shopping away and picking out sweaters and looking for sizes. She put her purse on a clothing rack hook and I looked over thinking, "That's a good idea"...and I did the same. Off we went to go look at jackets and then shoes. As I'm trying on the cutest brown leather heels, I gasped, "My purse is gone!"

We dug through our shopping bag and realizing the purse had really vanished, we hurried through the store backtracking our shopping spree and laughing so I wouldn't cry. I remembered hanging my purse on that silly hook, so we raced over to get it. Not there...shoot. (And it had been left in the Juniors section, too!) I started to really worry having visions of a stolen car because I have the button-punch key chain. Tawnya asked a clerk if they had a purse turned in. She said, "Oh yes, it's at the Customer Service desk." I thought, "Bless you," and as we entered the back office, the clerk was talking on the phone saying, "it looks like Kayelynn Guptill?" I thankfully retrieved my precious purse and we walked away laughing. After dinner, we headed home. When we walked into the house, Travis smiled and asked, "Why was Kohl's calling me?" "Oh, nothing!" :) What a blessing...

Still on Kohl's...I bought a new dark green leather purse. This morning I took the boys with me to drop Tawnya off at work. We said "Goodbye!" When we got home and were coming inside, I picked up Tyler and my new purse at the same time. His eyes opened really wide and asked, "Tawnya?" I explained that it wasn't Tawnya's purse, but mine. That didn't sink in.

Later, at the library, he asked me the same question about the purse. Same answer...same blank look. When we got home, I put it down on the floor. Tyler said, "Tawnya!" I told him Tawnya would be back tonight. I'm sure he thinks I took Tawnya's purse and she's gone now and he's the only one who noticed. I hope you'll survive without the green purse, Tawnya, I kind of like it....