Shopping and Happy Anniversary!

I rarely ever go shopping at home but when I come to Iowa I always make a point to go! It helps that I have a shopping loving mom and sister and one of Iowa's largest malls only minutes away. Mom, Madison and I went to the Tanger Outlets for only about 1 1/2 hours in the morning and then we headed to the Coral Ridge Mall... 7 hours later we limped out of the mall! Ha! The kids picked out their school supplies. Grandpa and Quinn ran around together... they went to watch the sheep sell at the Sale Barn etc... and then he took Quinn, Mikayla and Haley to the Children's Museum for about 3 1/2 hours. It's also in the mall and a kid-loving place to be! Now that 7 hours for us wasn't shopping the whole time...! We ate lunch at the food court and then we had supper with everyone. Good news for Tony... a Chick-Fillet has come into the food court. Sonic is coming to 2 locations outside the mall. All 10 of us went to Bennigans for supper (which is attached to the mall). We celebrated Amy & Jeff's 15th wedding anniversary with them. It probably wasn't their first choice for a romantic evening but hey, Grandpa had 5 FREE kids meals that expired at the end of this month. Who can beat that? After that, G'ma and G'pa went home and the kids and I went to Amy & Jeff's for the "Cubs Party" which has now become an inside joke. Too bad the Cubs have not realized that they are ruining the Cubs Party with each and every loss we've seen this week. Jeff made us allowed us to watch their wedding VHS tape. There were quite a few laughs and some begging for it to continue stop by both Amy and me. You would think the former bride would be interested but Come On... the whole thing??? I thought it was a Cubs Party!

It thundered/lightning/stormed/poured so badly when it was past time to leave so they convinced us to stay overnight at their house. It's a 25-30 minute drive back to Mom and Dad's in good weather. Jeff carried his (sleeping 4 year old) bride over the threshold tonight. Mikayla and Haley pretended to have a wedding... Jeff was the minister. So cute!

Since it is Amy & Jeff's anniversary... this also means it's Jenny & Troy's anniversary too. So Happy 15th to them too! 15 years ago we had two family weddings in one day. Jenny and Tony are 1st cousins and Amy & Jenny were good friends but it just worked out that they needed the same day so they didn't get to go to each other's weddings. We'll be seeing Jenny & Troy at the reunion this weekend.

PS... Today at the mall we ran into Sherry Libby and her 3 kids and also Betty Buckwalter.