And the wii-nner is....

I love my job! Especially when we get to make kids really happy. This week, we got to do a "prize patrol" and give away a new Nintendo Wii to a little girl who won the "Bring a Friend" contest at church. She had brought her friend so she could enter the contest, really hoping she would win a Wii - she had been wanting one for so long.

We had a huge bunch of balloons and wrapped the Wii up nice and pretty. We gathered as many of our Kidscoast Staff together as we could find and headed to her house. (Side note: We were all wearing our Kidscoast Worship Team t-shirts from earlier that day.) As she opened the door, she had a huge smile and looked genuinely excited to see all of us. We asked her if she knew why we were at her house and she said, "I made the worship team?!" (I guess because we all had worship team t-shirts on?) How cute! She was that excited to think that she had made the worship team! For a quick moment we thought, "Sure kid. That's it....you made the worship team....um, no Wii here." But we gave her the gift anyway.

Her mom was there with camera in hand hoping to catch a picture of Hannah's expression when she finally realizes what was in the wrapped box. She peeled away the wrapping so gently and then a long pause...."a Wii!!!!"

Hannah was so excited. We actually had to remind her how she had won it. She was so anxious to get it inside and get it hooked up. Her Daddy was going to be coming home the next day (he's in the military) and we just had to help her get it all hooked up to surprise him too.

Hannah said that day tied as the very best day ever (right up there with her first day of school). It's not everyday that we get to do really fun stuff like this, but man, we had a blast! Wheeee! : )