he NAILS it!!

Let start from the beginning..yesterday we had planned to leave the house by 530 or 6pm...robert and scott came and decided to continue working on jons slides and speech more to finalize it out..mark and bruce came over around 730pm to start hooking up the trail wheelchair lift thing on the denali..3 HOURS later and 3 FUSES later- we figured it out and got it working..the lift was leaning a little towards the street and it made us nervous- so we decided to go for a test drive..i got my truck up to 50 mph and figured "well it didnt fall off so were good!"
by 11pm we got jon loaded and away we went to the Marriot in LA..we FINALLY checked in about 1am and we got to sleep at 130am..YA LATE NITE!!! but we were pumped so it didnt matter...i woke at 6am to do the 4am usual rotation, meds and cath..robert and scott got up at 7am to start their showers and then headed down at 730am to set up our exhibit table which was due to be completed by 8am! YIKES! but they did it and came back to our room which i had already taken my shower and got myself and most of jon ready for the day..we transferred jon into the power chair- i ordered us all breakfast which was REALLY good and robert shaved jon real quick..
by 9am we headed down to begin the event...it is FREEZINGGGGGGGGGGG HERE!!!!!!!! poor jon is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cold!!! chad and kelly - were using the big black blanket you bought him..and he's still freezing..
the first speaker went..then it was jons turn..they announce jon hales..and then everyone does their applaud-- imagine the look on their faces when they just see ME walk up there- fiddle with the computer- arrange some papers- ALL this while WAITING for jon to roll on up from clear in the back to the front-- it was quite funny - i felt like i needed to say- im not jon - he's coming though!!
jon makes it to the front of the stage and he started off his speech with..well when i started my business about a year ago- i wanted to make sure i REALLY knew the ins and outs of outsourcing..so i decided to break my neck..and now i can say i outsource just about EVERYTHING in my life..so when i say i understand- i really mean it- it got a ROARING laugh and a huge applause- it was GREAT- we have to credit scott - jons brother with that GENIUS opening!!!!!!!! it was JUST perfect!!!
Jon proceeded to give his speech and i managed to follow along and push the right buttons on the laptop for jons slide..
his speech went GREAT -he did a great job and im SOOOOO incredibly proud of him - when he was done it was ALL i could do to NOT CRY!!!!!! he spoke the FULL 45 minutes- it was perfect!!
after his speech there was a small break and many of his collegues were coming up and giving him compliments..it was just great..its been like that all day today..oh i also remember that all the attendees were making notes like CRAZY while jon was speaking - he had great slides that everyone was able to take notes off of- so many people wanted jons entire script! we told them that actually everyones script is on the gdcfocus.com website- they were thrilled..

after it was lunch time where we got to eat in this swanky place at the hotel with the other speakers...it was pretty neat being around some serious hotshots..jon and i both at the miso salmon..

its now almost 2pm and the conference will continue to go on till 5pm then more people want to have "meetings" with jon..so should be interesting..

well im just SO thankful for having ALL of you on this journey with us and to see where and how we ended up - this is just awesome and were thankful that youve continued to pray and fast and think of us throughout the day - what a wonderful thing- we're so blessed- thank you!