Happy Birthday, Chase!

We celebrated Chase's 11th birthday this week. It hardly seems possible. I sent Greg out to get a card. He came back with a Hoops and YoYo talking card. Now, I was rolling my eyes at how ridiculous this card was, and he was making excuses about how there were no good cards. We both thought it was pretty bad.

Boy, were we wrong! The kids LOVED it. Chase said when they were doing a series called Spy Chase at church, she was Sgt. YoYo and Sarah (her best friend) was Sgt. Hoops. The kids all loved this card and listened to it over and over again.



Even Landon thought it was funny.


Carys would hardly let Chase open her gifts by herself.


Chase's main gift is a trip to Build-a-Bear. She's never been there and would really like to go. There isn't a store very near us, however, so we asked her to wait until a weekend when we need to take Landon to some CAP training. She was willing to do this. I still wanted some stuff for her to open, though. So, I went to my trusty "gift" box. I gave her a water bottle that came with an ipod Nano cover that Greg had picked up on clearance somewhere.

I had purchased these Samantha (American Girl) puzzles on clearance at Target a couple of years ago. So, they seemed like a good idea. Chase is involved with an American Girl book club that some moms from our homeschool group are hosting this year. She's really enjoying it!


When I bought her Gotz doll (Liberty from Vision Forum), I also bought all the historical outfits they had with it as it was much cheaper to do it that way. I'm still giving these as gifts. I think I have one more in the box.


The last thing she had to open was a gift bag filled with a few guitar goodies: a capo, a hook-type thingy to hang her electric guitar on the wall, and an amp/headphone plug that she can plug her electric guitar into and hear herself play. I think it was called a Pocket Rocket. Greg found it on a website we often order from.


After opening gifts, we headed out to pick up her best friend, Sarah. She went with us to haircuts then home for awhile. The boys had CAP that evening, so we headed out to dinner rather early. We always eat Mexican food on Chase's birthday which falls on Cinco de Mayo. Greg had to go give the invocation at our homeschool group's graduation ceremony. Then he picked up canolis on the way home, always Chase's dessert of choice for her birthday.



Sarah spent the night and we met up with her mom on Wednesday when we were back in Ocala. I think the girls had a great time!