Mega Millions and Smiles

We don't typically play the lottery, at least not on a regular basis.
But sometimes, you just gotta buy a ticket. Last Friday, the Mega
Millions jackpot was $263 million dollars. So, feeling lucky, Andrew
stopped on his way home from work and bought some tickets. He always
plays one ticket with our important dates (birthdays, anniversary,
etc) and then one ticket with computer chosen numbers. We had $5 worth
of tickets. And won absolutely nothing.

Since no one won the jackpot on Friday, we decided to go for it this
Tuesday and the $315 million jackpot. He used the same approach with
his choice of numbers. So last night, we watched and wrote the numbers
down. Then grabbed our tickets and started comparing. Whoo hoo, one
number. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Whoo hoo, one number, AND the MEGA
NUMBER! We won $3! We were one of only 110,019 people to win $3.

We didn't win the millions but we were close. The winning ticket was
sold at a store in Anaheim! At least we were in the same state.

In other news, I woke up this morning and said to Lily, "Good Morning
sweetie pie!" And she looked right at me and gave me an enormous
smile!! I was so excited. Her first real, non-gassy smile! Of course,
she wouldn't really do it again for the camera. But we'll get it one
of these days. ;-)