Scentsy Convention 2008, and a great big surprise!

...First of all I will talk about convention, and save the surprise for the end. Most of you know that I sell Scentsy wickless Candles for fun, and I REALLY love it because the product is AWESOME! Well this year I had decided not to go to convention because of the pregnancy and possible moving situations. My best friend Crystal was going, and I was driving over with her to see my family, and so with one week left to decide, I went ahead and made the decision to attend too. Thank Heavens I did!!! It was such a blast! It was held at the Boise Grove Center, and we stayed with my parents. We stayed up late every night acting like 13 year old teenagers again, and had loads of fun at the convention. They gave away tons of free giveaways which of course went over well with all of the women there. Oh, and there were over 1,000 women in attendance which is awesome considering Scentsy is only 4 years old. They have had 724% growth this last year! Isn't that amazing? Even crazier is that I was the 1338th consultant to sign up (which was just over a year ago) and now there are over 11,000 consultants spanning the entire U.S. The best part I think of the convention was the motivational speakers. They weren't just motivating you to sell, they were motivating us to be our better selves(haha, sure that's not a word, but bare with me). It was inspiring I thought. Anyway, I won't ramble, I just wanted to say I had the best week ever, and completely enjoyed myself. P.S. The new Catalogs are full of AMAZING new scents and products!!! Can't wait to show you all! Now check out some highlights below. This was the main speaker of the whole event. She was AWESOME! She has climbed all 7 summits with her husband, and they were the first couple from the U.S. to achieve Mt. Everest together. She talked about all of the trials it took her to get there, and she was not only a wonderful speaker, but completely inspiring!
A picture of me and Pearl (my best friend Crystal) after the first day.
This is a picture of game time on Friday morning. It was so fun. They had games going on the entire time to win AMAZING prizes. This particular game the first team to finish a bowl of trix won. Hilarious!
This is a picture of Orville Thompson, CEO of Scentsy. He's a great guy. This was taken during opening ceremony of Team Spirit day. What a kick that was!
This is team spirit day as well. This is a picture of Orville with Scentsy's first deaf woman telling her "aha moment". They had these throughout the week, and anyone who wanted could go up at the given times to tell something that inspired them could. Some of them were really great! And her story was amazing.
A picture of the crowd going crazy over some more free giveaways! We did not leave emptyhanded this weekend, that is for sure!
This is Me, Crystal, and another team-member named Crystal as well. She was a hoot dancing to Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers! (she has a teenage daughter!)
Crystal and I thrilled Silly over our new Room Sprays!
A picture taken the last day outside in the grove with our Superstar Director Becky Preece. She is...just WOW! Talk about a go-getter!
And then finally the Banquet. It was gorgeous. They had everything lit up so beautifully, and we all were dressed in semi-formals. The dinner was great. I had the Halibut, and Crystal had steak. I won't mention that some wierd guy at our table offered to finish her dinner for her, and not only offered, but DID!!! because that was weird....

Anyway, it was so so great, and I am so so motivated to keep this up because I really do love it. It's more fun than anything half of the time! But now it's time for the surprise....drumroll....while I was there my sister who has been trying to adopt for a while now got that very special phonecall, and she was told she was getting a baby boy!!! Not only that, but 27 hours later she was holding the special guy! And I thought I wasn't prepared after 9 months! Anyway, he's beautiful. They named him Jedadiah Steven Mortensen, and he is just sweet. I forget how tiny and frail they are. I got to stop by the hospital for an hour before I hit the road, so here are some pictures of my adorable new nephew!
He was so cute just sleeping all tightly swaddled.
Adi wanted to hold him, and she gave him kisses. Too cute. She'll be a good big sister. She loves babies. Since we've come home she keeps talking about "baby Jed" and then she says "hold, baby, Jed, hospital, waah, waah." It's pretty cute. We've always wanted to have cousins close together in our family, and now we finally are. Adi and Mitchel are 8 months apart, and Jed and Emerson will be just 8 weeks apart. Let's keep it up guys!!! :)
And here is the beautiful and happy family. Don't they look great? It's like looking at them you just know that he was meant to be there all along. Like that little tiny hole we didn't really quite realize was missing is finally filled with this big beautiful spirit! I'm just so happy for them, and I'm already missing him. Congrats you guys, you have the best family!