Birthday Weekend Rewind

The rest of our week was pretty good.  It took me a day or two to get back into the swing of things.  Makaila however was out and going the very next day.  We got home Monday night and by Tuesday night she was spending the night at Krystal's.

Wednesday we tried to get back into our routine.  The girls came home and we tried to go to bed by 10.  I succeeded, but the girls clearly stayed up much later since the house was decorated in the morning for my birthday!  There were streamers and signs and flowers and cards from the girls and Makaila's gift to me this year was tickets to see Hill song in August!   I was definitely feeling like one lucky birthday girl!

Lanice bought me a cake at work and Jason treated us all to a group breakfast in honor of my birthday.  It was really sweet and I am grateful to have such thoughtful employees.

Danny sent me a Nordstrom gift card via email which was nice!  Vicky gave me a Barnes and Nobles gift card, and when I came home Danny had also bought em a Bayou Goo pie which was delicious!!

We went and had dinner at Sharkies, and then I met Ceci half way because the girls wanted to stay the night with her.  I ended up talking to her for about an hour at the gas station, and then came home and went straight to bed!

I went by Ceci's to get eh girls on Friday after work and only one came home with me! Makaila stayed and Izzy came home to hang out with her dad while I went to Bunco.  I headed to Letty's and played Bunco until after midnight..it was loads of fun!

Saturday morning I cleaned a bit and then we headed to the movies to see Inside Out with Ceci and the crew.  It was a cute movie...Izzy really liked it.  Makaila and Alec however saw Magic Mike 2 instead! LOL

Afterward we went and hung out at Ceci and Rays all afternoon and had burgers and relaxed.  We headed home at about 6, then headed out to Costco to buy stuff for the girls trips.  $300 later we headed home to sulk! LOL

Sunday we went to church and then had lunch at La Villa.  After lunch we loaded Issy's things up and then headed back up to the church to see Izzy off on her first 3 day church camp adventure.  She was a tad reluctant but Aubrey was there and they shared seats on the bus...I was so excited and nervous to see my baby girl go away.  She is so little! LOL

After that we went back out to Wal-Mart to get the last of our needs for Makailas upcoming trip to Honduras. We started packing then took a break to head to Ernie's to discuss some Limon family issues.  I took advantage and laid out by the pool for about 20 minutes!  Once we wrapped that up we headed home and got ready for our week.

This week I was so proud of my little family.  I am proud of the love we share and the places we are going.  It has definitely been an on the go kinda summer.  I am so proud of the choices my girls are making.  How they are following the Lord and taking leaps of faith.  Issy is out at Camp Impact learning about he Lord and having fun, and in a  couple more days Makaila will be in Honduras on a mission trip serving the Lord!  I am filled with fear and anxiety but more than anything else joy and pride in my girls!!  Pray for my girls to be safe and to make lifelong memories on their trips.  That the Lord will touch their hearts.

Trip to New York (Post 3)

On Sunday - July 5th we slept in late (we were all dead tired from the long walk the night before).  We got up and going at about 11 and took our tour bus over to the Bronx.  We ate breakfast at the Yankee Cafe (right outside Yankee Stadium), and then headed in for a Yankees game.  While we are NOT Yankees fans, we thought it would be a good experience and knew Ivan would love it!

It was scorching hot! The stadium is set up nostalgic like and out seats were bleacher seats and the sun was right on us since it was mid day - I couldn't take it.  I went walking around instead and took pictures in the museum, and toured the stadium.

By the 4th inning Erica and the kids couldn't take it anymore either and were ready to leave.  I felt bad for Ivan because this was all for him and he didn't look happy to leave!

We sat out by the bus stop for about an hour waiting for our bus and it never came!!  Meanwhile Erica had a shouting match with a bum and embarrassed the crap out of use (especially her kiddos), and the mood was set for the rest of the day...we ended up taking the subway back to Time Square and splitting up.  The subway ride was an awesome experience because a man and his kids loaded and payed the drums/ congos for us and it felt just like what you see in the movies...it was pretty cool!

Makaila and I decided to spend the rest of our day shopping for souvenirs and then see a Broadway show.  We went to get our tickets to Aladdin, only to find out that the last show was at 3, and we had missed it.  Monday was blackout night so our chances of seeing Aladdin on this trip  were done!  We were pretty bummed.  We decided to go into the Time Square Toys R Us and we made Issy a Statue of Liberty/ I love New York Bear!

On our way in, someone stopped us to try to get us to buy tickets to Chicago...we took the flyer and after we finished with our bear we walked the few blocks to the Theater and bought the best seats they had for the Chicago 7 pm showing!  We were excited.  We still had a little over an hour, so we decided to walk over to Hell's Kitchen and get a bite to eat!  We ate at a cute little Latin Bistro and the food was fantastic.

We walked back over to the theater district and found a cute cupcake shop on the way there.  We ducked in and Makaila treated me to a cupcake,  It turned out to be owned by the girl on Criminal Minds.  The guy there was super friendly and the window seat was adorable!

We got to the show and before the 1st half was over Makaila realized we had left our bear at the cupcake shop!  during intermission we ran back to the shop to find that the guy was there staying open waiting for us to come back.  It was so sweet! We ran back to the theater to catch the rest of the show.  It wasn't at all what I expected but we loved it.  Moesha was the star of the show so we stayed after and got our pictures taken with her and she signed our playbill!

We walked back toward our hotel and made a pit stop at Juniors for Cheesecake,  Neither Makaila nor I eat Cheescake - but it was a cultural experience we didn't want to miss out on.,  We took some sliced back to the room with us for the rest of our clan to try. They told us all about their evening (they went biking) and then we all started to pack.  Our trip was coming to an end.

Monday morning we woke up at about 10 and headed out to Time Square for he last time.  We ate breakfast at the Terminal Cafe.

Makaila and I walked to get another Disney Bag and the last of our souvenirs.  When we got back to the hotel the kids were laid out on the benches and said their mom left them their because she was getting her nails done!  We called the trip done and took the subway to the airport.  It took a lot longer than I thought which I was glad we headed out early for it.  The trip didn't end as happy as I would have liked but overall it was a great trip overall, I think it was too long - and I was sad we did so much shopping and not as mush site seeing - but there will definitely be a next time for us!  I would love to bring Izzy and Danny to see New York. Danny and Izzy picked us up from the airport and I was starved to see them!  We got dinner at Los Vega and ate together and talked about our trip.

Back to work tomorrow!