Finally Friday

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We celebrated Camden's birthday a couple of weeks ago when my parents were in town so yesterday was fairly low-key. We bought him Super Mario Bros Wii game and saved it for his actual birthday, and he was seriously thrilled with it (pretty sure he hasn't had a new Wii game since last birthday!). We had planned to take him to lunch and he chose pizza so we went to CiCi's and then took him to Game Stop to spend some birthday money, and he picked out the Lego StarWars game, and it was all over after that. He spent lots of time playing his new games and if he wasn't playing the games, he was talking about the games. Seriously, way more talking about Super Mario and Lego Star Wars than you could ever want to hear. We ended the day with supper with Gram and Gramps and another night of VBS.

Poor Rory had a bit of a tough time with all the birthday cards, phone calls that Camden received, but I've promised her now that Camden's birthday is over, we can start talking about her birthday.

VBS this year has been amazing. The kids have had a fabulous time; Brian has done a great job leading it; but we're all exhausted. Rory especially is quite cranky because even though she's staying up several hours later than normal, she's still up at the crack of dawn. (and, honestly, I'm missing the early bedtime for the kids because that's usually my TV/computer/quiet time)

I think we're hitting up my friend for an afternoon at her pool for the first (and probably last) time this summer. It's sad, but our summer is basically over. Brian has in-service 3 days next week and then we're headed out of town. Brian and Camden start school a week after we get home.

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Comments

Elizabeth Frick said…
MAN, summer goes by too quickly, doesn't it?!
2:04 PM
Krista said…
What? School in August? That is too bad.
I love that scrap page - yes, you do match, for so many more reasons than lipgloss.
3:24 PM
Christine @ 12,450miles said…
What?! Summer is over?! Yikes... I feel like mine has just started!

I love how you told Rory that you could start talking about her birthday next... funny!
7:48 PM
StarWarsFans said…
Ah yes, Star Wars Legos. We've had to ground Kaden from it for awhile. He was seriously getting addicted. We knew we had a problem when he put his sister in a headlock and called her Darth Maul. LOL! Hopefully Camden is enough older to be "mature" about it. BTW, we have a TON of Star Wars stuff we will be selling. Once I get a site set up for it, I'll let you know.
1:22 PM
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