april fools

I am not posting something cheesy in attempt to TRICK you
not because I think it would be lame,
but because I can't think of anything clever.
Instead I will share a couple of pranks from the past
that should have been pulled on April 1st…

Two Pink Lines= Positive, BABY.

When Ben was 3 months old, I was cleaning underneath the bathroom sink and found the positive pregnancy test that I took a year earlier. It's probably disgusting to save it, but it was my first pregnancy and I was a little excited.. I was about to throw it away when a genius idea popped into my head... "wait a minute,” I said to myself. “This little thing could make for a funny prank." The next couple of days, I pretended to be really tired and nauseous.. and finally made the trip with Aaron to the store to buy a pregnancy test. When we came home, I went into the bathroom, pretended to pee and came out with the old test in hand… I gave it to Aaron without saying anything. To put it mildly, he FREAKED out!! It was so funny to see him pacing the hallway saying over and over, "What does this mean? How did this happen?" I planned on waiting a while to tell him the truth, but I was afraid he was going to have a heart attack... so I confessed about 5 minutes later. And don't you worry, I discarded the positive prego test.. (for those of you who think I glued it in Ben's scrapbook.)

What is really funny is that we actually got pregnant about 6 months later with Luke... neither of us were laughing, though. I guess you could say that it turned out okay. We're going to keep him and all.

The Fake Wedding Announcement

I went to Ricks College (BYU-Idaho, if you must.) Ricks is the capital of young girls getting married a few months after high school graduation. It's a great place to be, don't get me wrong, but the LAST thing that I wanted to do was get married at 18. My roommate Val and I thought it would be really funny to send fake wedding announcements to our family just weeks after school began. We borrowed someone's big grandma ring, found random good-looking men on campus to take pictures with and made our own homemade announcements. And if I remember correctly, we couldn't find envelopes big enough, so we stole some from a local grocery store in the greeting card section.. no? We were such little devils back then. We really thought we were hilarious while cutting out squares of tissue paper and inserting them with pictures we took with total strangers. ((BTW, if this is your husband, he was never engaged before.. and he didn’t cheat on you. Since blogging, the world is a much smaller place than it used to be.. you never know who’s reading!))

We sent the invites out and our family members laughed and knew we were kidding. The pictures were not exactly cute (you would think we would do our hair before taking engagement photos!) and the announcements themselves were not so fancy --the info on them was a total joke.. (reception in the Clark building on campus, etc. and who would EVER get married in the Idaho Falls Temple??? jk) But my older brother, Scott, was serving his mission at the time and when he opened the envelope, he FLIPPED OUT. He couldn't believe that I was getting married two weeks into my first semester at college. Somehow he tracked down my apartment number and called. I wasn’t home, but my sweet, Should Have Been Blonde roommate answered the phone. He tried asking her a few questions about my upcoming wedding. She was as confused as he was-- I am telling you, not every light was on in the attic... (and if you ever read this Denise, you know I love you!!) Anyway, she couldn't give him any useful information, but told him to call right back and leave a message on the answering machine with his number. He called back and let it ring and ring and ring... only later to find out that we didn't have an answering machine…ever. He finally called my mom to get the scoop... and boy! I am glad I wasn’t living at home because I would have been grounded! My mom was so mad at me for playing a trick on the hardworking missionary. But it goes down in the books as one of my best pranks ever!

Without Transportation

This past Friday, Aaron went to leave for work, but his car wouldn't start. And we were totally shocked over this because HELLO!! It's a 1991 Honda and we have NEVER had any problems with it (April fools).. I am sure Aaron will have to get a new car sooner or later, but I just hope is later and not sooner. Anyway, until then, he is driving the fancy minivan to work. About ten minutes after he left, he called me on his cell. This was our conversation:

Me: Hello dear. How can I help you? (with my Giselle voice, of course.)

Aaron: The minivan is DEAD.

Me: WHAT IN THE CRAP IS GOING ON HERE? Why does God hate us? Where are you? What happened?

Aaron: I am just kidding. Man, you really freaked out. I was just calling to say that I left my lunch on the counter.

Whoa, Betsy. That was a close call. Until last Friday, I never knew how much the minivan meant to me. It is the BEST car I have ever had and I would DIE if it died. (April fools again) But it is the only form of transportation we got.. and for that, I am grateful.

So.. this is my show and tell for today. Does anyone else have any classic pranks they've pulled on their friends or family? How about any good ideas for unsuspecting husbands after work tonight? Do share...