oh man had a great birthday!  sweet ella reminded me this morning that I was 26 now!  She thinks I look bigger too!  I had such a wonderful evening last night with my family.  My parents treated my family to Olive Garden and it was delicious!  I had 3-4 various kinds of drinks sitting in front of me.

 
Geesh, I peed all night.  I wanted wine with my dinner and our friendly waitress had to tell me about the new house wines so of course I had to sample them.  All are yummy in case you were wondering.  I chose the white house wine.  Of course no meal is complete without a cup of coffee [black]. So I slurped that down too.

My shopping trip was a success!  I shopped for 1 1/2 hours [because they shut the lights off on me=they were closing] stayed within my budget and got some great things!  We had AWANA [church night] tonight so I actually got to wear something other than my usual sweatpants and t-shirt.  I chose birthday outfit number 1-Josh-in the nicest way possible told me it was screaming at him!

"she's a mom-proud of her target clothes"

I also bought a box of red hair dye!  What?! Yes, I really did!  I normally get my hair highlighted at the salon but I just want to try this on my own!  One time, Josh pulled my hair through a cap [like poked thousands of holes in a plastic cap and gave me highlights].  It took us 3 hours.  He is such a patient man;)

Even though it's midnight, I think I am going to go try dying my hair right now.  I may be making a 9:00 a.m. salon apt. tomorrow and have to take my kids with me to get it fixed...we will see!

Had a great day, talked to the neighbor lady today...finally! [she lives catecorner -how do you spell that?]  She was very nice, she was on a walk and we were leaving to go to AWANA so it was just a brief chat but I would love to get to know her more!  Saw lots of "familiar" faces at church tonight which is comforting.  Some moms I met in my new homeschool group and the kids AWANA teachers and it's nice to be able to call others by name finally.  The kids are making friends too.  I hear them referring to kids by name and I think they are enjoying AWANA.

Ella Jo still misses her best friend dearly.  She cried in bed last night because she misses seeing her.  Her best friend is the daughter to my best friend therefore Ella saw her often.  We have planned for my best friend to come with her husband and 3 children to stay with us in November and we are all so excited!

We went to a restaurant down the road this evening after AWANA in an effort to see the Detroit Tigers game but it was rained out.  SO we enjoyed our appetizer/bed time snack and night cap anyway.  Before we left the kids wanted to play games in the restaurant's mini-arcade.  Josh gave them each a dollar.  The arcade was near the restrooms and along stumbles this "happy" [nicer way to say drunk] guy and gives the kids more money to spend on the games!  They were SO excited!  Their lucky night!  They certainly deserved this treat, they are such sweet , well behaved kids.  Am I allowed to say that without it being like I am bragging?  Well i am saying it anyway.  Each one of them ordered their own dinners at Olive Garden last night using impeccable manners.  That sat so well and enjoyed their meals.  All through Target everyone was so good.  I mean, no acting up at all.  They are just awesome and I love to be with them.

Good night-I am going to go ruin my hair!