Jenn was so excited for her very 1st trip ever to New York City!! For her birthday we got her a ticket to Billy Elliot on Broadway and her friend Alexis got one for her birthday as well and Tom drove them up for the day and they got to miss school and everything, what a score!! Jenn loved being in the big city, loved the musical, New York pizza, riding the ferris wheel inside Toys R Us, just the whole day!! It was a great birthday present!! We sure love and adore our Jenn!!!
Abby had a great 10th birthday!! I can't believe she is double digits!! NOT my baby!! Abby took 2 of her best friends Hannah and Coreen to dinner at Tortilla factory and then back to our house for a video, big cookie (Abby does not like cake) and a sleepover!! Who can ask for more fun than that!! Abby had a great birthday with a lunch at Silver Diner, a yummy breakfast with all her favorites and a trip to the mall with the Overton's!! She got lots of money, DSI games, an Ipod player, a shirt for school and a great lamp (2 of them actually) for her room and a great cozy chair for her room, plus a back pack for school!! Abby is such a doll, a very hard worker, great athlete at every sport, SO smart, a great friend, so good with her cousins and my partner in crime. I love having Abby around and love when she goes on errands with me and snuggles with me. I love Abby :)
Sarah did not have the best actual 17th birthday since she was at Girls camp, we tried to make it nice there, BUT she was on an overnight, had to do a 5 mile hike in extreme heat, cook her dinner over the coals at 11 at night and it never got done!! Pretty bad :( One only turns 17 once so that would not do!!! She took 3 of my best buddies, Emily, Kate and Christine to the Melting Pot restaurant for a birthday celebration that is worth my precious Sarah!! The Melting Pot is fabulous and the girls had a blast!!! They came back to our house and had so much fun!! What great friends they are to Sarah. Sarah is just the light of my life, SO good, such a hard worker, so devoted, so loyal, so talented!! It is so nice to see her just blossom and have her confidence grow with each year. She is truly an amazing young woman and I just feel lucky and blessed to know her, let alone be her Mom!!! 
Sarah and Amy had a very fun weekend!! Friday night they went out to Silver Diner for a "Cast Bonding" dinner with the Cast of "Fiddler on the Roof" It was an exciting week of auditions, call backs for both Sarah and Amy and then Sarah getting the very sought after roll of the daughter Chava!! Amy is thrilled to get a call back, one of 2 sophmores, and pleased to learn and grow in the ensemble and patiently wait for her big junior year next year!! Saturday night Sarah hosted, as one of the Show Choir Captains, a Show Choir party at Mom and Dad's house. They had SO much fun and there was a huge turnout!! Sarah should be so pleased. We BBQ'd, the kids brought side dishes and desserts, they danced outside, played volleyball, sang and played Just Dance on the Wii. It was more action than that neighborhood has seen in years!! The kids all made Sarah bring her Grandpa down as a celebrity as they were very impressed with all his books, especially his anti-Bush section!! I am very happy when my girls are happy :)
We were all SO thrilled when the big day finally arrived when Mom and Dad came back home from their Mission to Bogota, Columbia!! Oh how we have missed them and were SO excited for them to get home. We all went to the airport with big signs ready for their arrival and could not get anyone to let us know exactly where they would be coming out!! We finally figured it out and had such a wonderful reunion. It was made all the more sweet by a surprise visit by Phil and his whole family who we were not expecting until much later in the week!! What a great family time we had :)
