What Birthday Money Can Buy!

Abigail has had money burning a hole in her pocket ever since her birthday 3 weeks ago.  She had only bought 2 joke books at Sam's club until today.  I had to go pay my JCPenney bill after work today and she picked out 2 outfits while we were in there.  Mind you that I just bought her an outfit at Kohls on Sunday for school that costed more than I wanted to pay, but it was cute and she wanted it so badly.  I told her today that I would by 1 of the new outfits, but she had to buy the other,  So it was a deal.  Then we went to Hobby Lobby where she laid down some of her cold hard cash for a mannequin.  Yes, a mannequin.  (I thought Brandon would roll out of the kitchen chair when he heard how much she spent on a bust doll with a dress on!)  It is very cute and I love it, but I would never buy anything like it just because I wouldn't splurge on something like that.  I talked her into putting it in the bathroom instead of her bedroom and it is so cute in there.  Emily is doing her room in zebra stripe/safari and it seems to be leaking over to Abigail too.  Lord knows what our upstairs will end up looking like!  Anyway, back to the shopoholic... she is such a fun person to go shopping with.  She acts like some rich woman in New York boutiques.  She walks around saying, "ohh I like that, how much is it, ohh that's not bad, I'll take it!"  Then she moves on to the next display of stuff.  I had to talk her down from quite a few things, but the bust doll was mandatory because she stood at the display with her arms crossed until I okayed it.  Thank goodness I had a 40% off coupon that I let her have.  We were going to head to Target and I gave up and we had to settle for the nearby Wal-Mart to pick up a few things.  Both girls picked out some school supplies to get a jump start on the back to school stuff.  Emily found her a zebra striped "softee" (what we call blankets) that she purchased with money she earned for various accomplishments while in the softball tournament last week. 

We had such a good time for those 3 hours of shopping.  When we got back in the car to head home, Abigail said "This has been such a good day"  and then a bit later she said "You are the best momma ever"  so when it's all said and done I guess it was worth it. (Especially when they were spending their money for the most part!)  So for any of you that gave Abigail money for her 7th birthday here is an idea of where it went.  I have to say that it was well spent and she had a ball doing it.

EDEN NC DIXIE YOUTH SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT

Well we just got home today from Emily's softball tournament. Emily is still in Martinsville VA with some of her team. They had already paid for tonight and so they decided to stay until tomorrow morning. We lost today to Rockingham 7-8. It was an amazing game with all the girls doing pretty well despite the heat. Yesterday we won against Dunn and the score was 4-0. This was a crazy exciting game because those 4 runs we got all came in the 6th inning with a grand slam by Karlee Efird. Emily had hit a base hit and got out there and then 2 other players got the bases loaded and set Karlee up to bring them all in. It was crazy! The games are supposed to be 5 innings, but since we were tied 0-0 we had to go into this 6th inning that ended up being what we needed. Emily finally got some respect from her team for getting them started and getting the first run in of the game. The other amazing thing is that every girl that had the bases loaded were all "benchwarmers" and finally got some attention. This was wonderful. We were on cloud 9 all evening after that. Then going into today we knew that Rockingham was going to be tough, but we held them at a close game and I think we actually made them worry about a win for a change. I am going to post some pictures from over the past few days. I have a video of the grand slam event, but can not upload it to my blog due to its size. If you are interested we can arrange a viewing!

Abi chilling out under Abby's family tent playing with uncle Chad's old iphone.

Emily on first base from her hit in the game where they won 4-0.

Emily on 2nd base after her hit that got them started.  To see her on 3rd base you will have to see video!

The team after losing to Rockingham 7-8. You can tell Emily isn't too happy.

Emily concentrating

Emily trying to get a hit in

 Abby and Abi-Attached at the hip for the entire ball tournament.  Note Flynn and Rapuzel are wearing the wrong clothes!

Emily waiting in the outfield for a ball to come her way.

My Baby is 7 years old!

We weren't able to plan a party for her birthday, but we did get in 2 games of bowling late last night after Emily got out of ball practice.  We invited my brother and Brandon's sister for this last minute trip and we really had a good time.  Abigail has never been bowling.  Imagine that!  She had a great time.  She would get excited and just bounce up and down.  I guess we can add this to LIKE list for her.  So come on Living Social I need you to offer a deal!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!