Gerren turned 13 today. It is hard to believe, as usual, that another year has gone by so quickly. His birthday fell on a Monday which was crazy with choir for Chase and Civil Air Patrol for Landon. There was no time for our usual birthday dinner out between these two activities. So, we went out yesterday. We headed to Orlando to eat at Sweet Tomatoes' new breakfast buffet. Afterwards, I finally got to tour the new IKEA store. It was incredible! I will definitely be back when in need of furniture. Then we spent an hour or so at the Mall of Millennia. I haven't been there in several years. On the way home, we decided to drive through The Villages, a very popular retirement area in central Florida which I hadn't seen since before Landon was born, probably before we were married. It has grown so much! Well, we have some dear friends who moved from Crystal River over there in January. We called them on the spur of the moment and ended up spending the afternoon and early evening with them. It was SO wonderful. We also had a very light dinner at TooJay's Gourmet Deli. I'd seen these restaurants, but had never eaten at one. It was awesome!
Today, the kids slept in. They were exhausted. They managed to roll out of bed sometime between 9:00 and 9:30 am. We had breakfast, then headed to Sears to have Gerren's pictures taken. After we got home and did some chores, he and Landon flew their RC airplanes. He finally started getting antsy to open his gifts.
Landon and Chase got him this shirt.
Greg and I got him a new crash cymbal (he broke his old one - I didn't know this was even possible).
While we were at it, we bought a splash cymbal and a boom stand for either of those cymbals.
He also got the entire set of the Terrestria Chronicles, adventure novels by a Christian pastor that I read about on my homeschool loop (I think)! He said they look good.
He decided to go with Landon to CAP tonight as they are going to fly RC planes. :-)
6 comments:
They're going to fly Catholic planes?{g}
Happy Birthday Gerren!
Hope you waved hello to Aunt Gloria and Uncle Al in the Villages.....
Sounds like a terrific way to spend the day--Happy Birthday, Gerren!!
Happy Birthday! I don't know how you're going to afford the groceries either.lol I don't know how I afford the groceries!lol
Happy Birthday Gerren.
Great b-day present! Our ds is hoping for more cymbals for his birthday which is in June.
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