Jill returned home what she thought was before Tim. When she got to the front door she found a note.
It read:My Beautiful Wife…..
I wanted to make tonight special for you so I have come up with a little game.
I am taking you on a scavenger hunt. I will give you a clue and at each location
You will get another piece of information about tonight. Are you up to the challenge?
If so your next clue to the evening is on the first thing I ever blew up in this house…..
Good luck! See you at the end.
Love, Tim
Jill looked down at the note with disbelief. He was going to make her work for her surprise how typical. She thought OK Tim I will play along but boy are you going to pay. She remembered back to the first day they moved in and thought about him blowing up the toaster. That is where she headed next.
At the toaster she found a wrapped box. She opened it up to find two stuffed teddy bears and her second clue that read:My favorite room in the house. She thought about it and said out loud "Come on Tim everyone knows that is the bathroom." And she was off.
In the bathroom she found another wrapped box. She opened it up to find two fleece blankets, one pink, one blue and her third clue that read:Your next clue awaits at the place I always hit my head. Jill had to think harder about this one. He has hit his head everywhere but a place he always hits it is where. She laughs and thinks the pipe over the basement stairs. That is where she headed next.
There she finds a third wrapped box. Inside she finds two outfits, one for a girl, one for a boy. She is noticing a pattern in the gifts but is curious to read her fourth clue. She finds it at the bottom of the box and it reads:Your final clue waits for you in the place the twins were conceived. She smiles and remembers back to the night she got home from her sisters and heads to the couch.
There she finds a smaller wrapped box. She opens it and finds a key and her final clue that reads: Use this key to open the door to the room I have been remodeling. She runs up the stairs to the nursery and puts the key in the door and yells with surprise.
There in the middle of the room is a candlelit table set for two and her husband holding two dozen red roses. She smiles at him and said, "Nice touch with the game I enjoyed it." Tim said, "I was hoping you would." He walks over to her, gives her a hug and kiss that neither wants to end, but Tim is also excited to show her the nursery. He leads her around and shows her the cribs, the dresser and the changing table all made by his own hands. The room is painted a pale yellow and is decorated with jungle animals. Jill with tears in her eyes turns to Tim and said, "I love it and I love you." She kisses him. He pulled away and said, "I love you too." They sit down and have dinner while Tim tells her all the stories of making the furniture and how hard it was to not tell her what he was doing. She sat there and listened to his stories smiling and thinking how wonderful her life is turning out.
After dinner Tim said, "Are you ready for another surprise?" She looked at him and said, "There's more." Tim took her hand and guided her to their bedroom. Her interest was peaked in what this surprise could be, he sat her on the bed and told her to wait there. He left the room and went downstairs when he returned he had a large wrapped box, he handed it to her and said, "This one is for you." She smiled and said, "Wow such a large package." Tim winked and said, "Thank you." Jill said, "That is not what I meant." She opened the package and was surprised to find another box inside and it continued that way until there was just one small box left. She looked at the wrapped box and said, "I don't think you can get any smaller." When she opened it she began to cry, inside was a diamond pendant necklace with two Aquamarine, the twins birthstones, stones surrounding it. She got up and gave Tim a hug and said, "Thank you Tim I love it. Would you please put it on me." He took the necklace and she turned around and picked up her hair. Tim put the necklace around her neck, his hands brushed against her which sent shivers down her spine. She lingered a but and Tim brought his hands to her shoulders and started to rub them, then followed with kissing them. It had been a long time since they were intimate, with her being in the hospital before the babies and then the c-section to have them six weeks earlier and you could sense the longing in both of them.
Since Jill wasn't stopping him, Tim continued. He turned her around and unbuttoned and removed her shirt. He stood back and stared at her, Jill was feeling a little self-conscious about the baby weight she still had yet to lose so she grabbed for him. He stopped her and said, "Do you know how beautiful you are?" Jill rolled her eyes and said, "Yeah right. What is so beautiful the stretch marks, the lactating, or the scar from the c-section?" Tim pulled her to him and said, "All of them because they are the results of you having my children." Jill felt enormous love for Tim at that moment and kissed him then helped him remove his clothing and he helped her remove the remainder of hers. They were lying together after and Jill said, "We really should never let it be that long again." Tim rolled her over and said, "Alright by me." They spent the rest of the night sleeping in each others arms.