Chase's love language is gift giving (like her mom!), and she would rather have lots of small gifts than one or two big gifts. So, we tried to oblige.
Of course, money is always nice. This cash is from her Uncle Jeff and Aunt Kay.
Her brothers gave her a DVD on doing your doll's hair as well as a pick to use. They picked these up at the American Girl store in Dallas. I think they were the only males in the store! :)
Carys picked out this cute card for Chase. (Ok, mom picked it out!) She also gave her knee-high panty hose and a hair nut for a bun. (Yes, Chase actually asked for these things. I don't mind giving her lots of presents when they cost less than a dollar each!)
We are getting Chase a new quilt set for her bed but didn't have the chance to pick it up yet. Her other main gift from us was a guitar for Liberty (her Vision Forum/Gotz doll). Now, they can both play guitar.
We tried to get a picture of Carys playing the guitar. It is so funny! She puts her little hand under her arm and wiggles her fingers. However, she moves too fast for me and the camera.
For the personal family record (meaning you can skip this if you're not interested), we also gave her a pink ipod case, a compass, a flashlight, and a whistle/compass combination thingy. Grandma Epie and Papa JoJo gave her $500 for her college fund, as usual.
Chase's birthday is on May 5, which is Cinco de Mayo. So, we always choose a Mexican restaurant to eat out. Her favorite is El Ranchito, a locally-owned restaurant in our little town. We don't always get to eat there, depending on our schedule for the rest of the day. However, we did get there this year, even though it was a hurried supper between Chase's girl's choir rehearsal and Landon's Civil Air Patrol meeting.
Then, I always make a dessert of their choice for later at home. Gerren and Chase made it easy on me this year. He wanted ice cream sandwiches, and she wanted canolis. Now, I could probably make canolis, but I never have. Anyway, the ones Publix sells are so good that I'm happy just buying them!
Doesn't that look yummy?
Carys thought so, too.
Happy Birthday, Chase! You are so precious to us and to God. We love you!
5 comments:
Happy Birthday, Chase! What a great picture of Chase and the guitar, she looks like she could be on The Price is Right, lol.
Sounds like a great day, and the canolis sound wonderful too!
Happy Birthday Chase! Love all the presents. Interesting to figure out that gifts is her love language. What about the rest of the children?
I'm with you, I love presents! Tim really bombed on Mother's Day this year. With the oldest two out of the country, he decided (AT THE LAST MINUTE) that we should just reschedule Mother's Day.
No presents for me. Sigh. I did get some Thai take out and a good two hours of work out of Tim (in the garage, decluttering, no less).
Not sure about the other kids. I think all kids have gift giving as a love language to some extent. With Landon it's probably words of encouragement. Carys is too young to tell and Gerren... well, if I could figure Gerren out, I'd have half my problems in life solved. LOL! Even though Greg knows gift giving is my love language, he always leaves shopping to the last minute. He claims it's because I do the bookkeeping and will see all the receipts. A likely story! LOL!
Happy Belated Birthday Chase. Double Digits!
Happy LATE Birthday, Chase!
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