Operation Run David Run: Success!

[LenaGardner]

Lena: Did you get any of your mail today?
David: I think I got ALL of it!
Lena: Well how many did you end up getting?
David: I have no idea, it was so much that it was all rubber-banded together!
Lena: Oh wow, that much, huh? Maybe it all did come today then!
David: Yeah, I don't know how many, but the entire company had to do 20 push-ups for every letter.
Lena: Well how many push-ups did you have to do?
David: 580.


And then it went something like Oh my God I'm so sorry are you okay is everyone mad at you are your arms going to fall off?

He was fine and so were all of the guys in the background though I could hear them razzing him. At one point I heard a guy say, "I did all those push-ups for your a$$"

Apparently it was a big to-do and I'm giggling that the drill sergeant even had to count them all to tabulate their 'punishment'. LOL!

Are you good at math? That means he got 29 pieces of mail today. I know that 3 of them were from me (1 from me, 1 from me but was the printed out messages from my overseas friends, many of you included, and 1 was from Nathan).

I asked him if he had read any of them he said he hadn't had time and that he was going to save all of them for the wait time at the airport tomorrow and/or to read on the plane to Missouri, and that he'd keep them forever and read them over and over if he ever has any problems keeping up his time while he's in AIT.

Thank you girls so much. I wish you all could have heard the smile in his voice! (and the exhaustion, LOL!)

[nun69]

that is sooo awesome!

[lauren grier]

aw that's great I was going to send one but we got all wrapped up in shizz on friday. lol too funny about the push ups haha

[Kat Stokes]

How wonderful!!! That sucks that they made them all do that many push-ups though...

[my4boys]

That is so great Lena....sucks about the push-ups but I am so glad he got them and I was so happy to do it for him.......Keep us informed as to how he is doing and let us know if we can send him more stuff too, I would not mind sending that man of your a little box full of goodies for all of his hard work!!!!

[**Holly**]

Oh that is awesome!

[jessica31876]

aww thats so nice...well not the pushups but that he was so happy to get all that mail. Gosh Im kinda glad I didnt have my daughter and her ROTC friends send him a note LOL. They might have sent several since there are so many classes!!

[MelindaH]

Eeek ... sorry to hear about the push-ups. Kind of makes me glad that I missed the deadline, poor guys!!! Very glad it put a smile on his face though. You are such a thoughtful wife!!!

[Brooke W]

Awe, Lena, i'm so glad all these cards made his day. Served the DI right to have to call all that count since he gave em that punishment,lol. Hope he's hoarse
It was my pleasure to send it to him and to put a smile on both your faces

[ZaCola3]

Awww Poor David...but I'm glad it is over and he is almost to AIT!
Hooray!

[Tracyfish]

Yay I'm glad he got them, bummer about the "punishment"!!!

[junebug]

i'm so glad he got them and the he's doing okay!

[ColleenSwerb]

Oh that's so awesome Lena!!!

[pbumbaca]

That is fantastic!

[kscwgirl]

Cool!! Yikes about the pushups though. LOL

[lovely1m]

That's great! I am sorry I didn't have time to get one sent out. Well, at least it was 20 less push-ups they had to do.

[Jennifer]

Yay for the happiness!!!

(Not-so-yay for the push-ups, though.)

[~Julie~]

Yay Im glad he got everything.. That stinks about the pushups though

[Amy Carey]

oh Lena that nearly brought tears to my eyes! How wonderful!! can't believe the mean ol' TI made them do pushups because of it though, lol. How cruel!

[scrapmonkey]

So glad he enjoyed them!

[alansrock]

Holy Hell...580 push-ups for real???? YIKES! And here I was thinking I did good to do 50 in 1 minutes last week !

[chloe]

How great!!! Well, except the exhausting push ups part! LOL