My birthday

For my birthday this year the girls wanted to buy me some presents but Wes was out of town. Last Friday (day before my birthday) I had a meeting and my mom watched the girls. I asked my mom to take them shopping. Anna and Rebekah planned to get me chocolate with their money. My mom helped them get more. When I came back from my meeting they surprised me by jumping out from behind the chairs. They had made a cake with my mom's help. They bought me flowers, chocolate, and a gingerbread house kit. Apparently, my mom wanted to get me roses but Anna insisted on Gerber daisies. I love daisies more than roses. Anna and I had been talking about making a gingerbread house this month. Friday night we went downtown to the living windows display. It was fun to see the different shops put on mini Christmas plays in their store windows. The girls loved touring Poppy and the Candy Factory. The girls love to make things and love art so they were in heaven inside Poppy. We will go back to Poppy sometime when it is not so crowded. At the Candy Factory they were fascinated by the amount of candy. They each got some Harry Potter jelly beans. One of the banks had Santa so we stopped to take pictures. There were college students in front of us in line. One of them had their stuffed Garfield sit on Santa's lap and took pictures. We finished Friday night with carriage ride. On Saturday I took the girls to MU Faculty and Students Holiday Brass concert at the MO United Methodist church. The church building is old and gorgeous. We met some friends there. Anna sat with them and loved, loved the concert. I sat with Rebekah the first half trying to convince her to sit in the pews. She did not feel very good and wanted to go home. The second half we spent in the hallway listening to the music while Rebekah looked through a basket of kids books.

Some pictures ...

One of the three flowers


Slackers Living Window


Poppy's Living Window


Rebekah was fascinated by this person's instrument.


Another Living Window


Candy Factory


Garfield and Santa


Girls and Santa


Carriage


Rebekah reading books.