Grand Opening

This past Saturday was the grand opening of Matt's dental practice, Vista Dorada Dental! It was a lot of fun and a great success. Matt and Wade woke up early to post signs and balloons throughout the community to spread the word while Seth and I got ready at home.

The Hunsaker's picked up Wade for soccer while the rest of us headed over to the event. There were balloons, prizes, music and food. Matt and his staff gave tours of the office and chatted with everyone who came. Matt has a wonderful staff who worked so hard to make this event great and they did an amazing job!

If any of you dental school graduates are getting ready to do something like this soon, BE SURE TO GET A SITTER FOR THE KIDS! I know I should have and it is almost common sense, but I thought with Wade being gone to soccer half the time, it wouldn't be so bad watching Seth while trying to participate and get to know the visitor's--well, to say in the least, I was WRONG!!

At first, Seth entertained himself by pushing the stroller around (typical) and refused to even think about sitting in it. I decided we both needed a break so we went to sit in the car for a minute, cool off and watch part of a movie. I also opted to put the stroller away.
After our timeout, things seemed to be going okay. Seth was running around, but staying in my eyesight, until I took my eyes off of him for a SPLIT SECOND to introduce my friend to Matt's partner. Well, you can imagine what happened--Seth disappeared.

I excused myself from the conversation and started running (keep in mind I am 9 months pregnant :)) down the sidewalk that I last saw him on. He was running with another little boy and I could see that kid about 25 yards away at the entrance of the grocery store "Basha's."

When I got to that boy I asked him where Seth was, but he was too little to understand me. I just kept running up the sidewalk. My heart was pounding, I was sweating and my life was seriously flashing before my eyes. I couldn't believe I couldn't find him. I started to think, "what am I going to do?", "what am I going to tell Matt?" I continued to round the corner of the strip mall and was now over 100 yards away from the practice.

I was frantic and asking/panicking to anyone I saw if they had seen a little boy run by. No one had, so I decided to run back. I ran into a lady from my old ward and few others outside the grocery store and they started to help me look. I ran into the grocery store and screamed, "has a little boy come in here?" They began to look and started making announcements over the intercom.

Suddenly I could see my friend, Lalani, waving her arms trying to get my attention. I ran back down to the practice and she exclaimed, "Jen, I have him, he has been here the whole time!" I can't even describe the relief I felt at that moment. I let everyone know, who had been helping me look, he was okay and hugged my little boy tighter than I ever had.

He was "lost" for a good 5 minutes and it felt like an eternity. Even though it is 3 days later, I still find myself hugging him and kissing him a little tighter than usual. I do not know what I would have done if I really had lost him. Thank goodness it wasn't anything worse (or really anything at all.)

We decided to call it a day after that, not to mention the massive contractions I was having (I guess I know what to do if I get desperate to have this kid ;)!) It turned out to be a great day despite our mishap! Thank you to all who supported us!