Christmas Shopping Has Begun!

Dear Baby Bug~

Boy did we have a busy weekend! Every year your Grandma Cindy and all of your great aunts take a whole weekend to go Christmas shopping and this weekend happened to be it for this year! Mommy always wanted to go on this trip but was never really "allowed" until last year. You will really enjoy all of your great aunts and Mommy really enjoyed the weekend away with them.

We left home on Friday right after school and met the rest of the family in Mishewaka at the Fairfield Inn which would be our home away from home for two nights. Once we checked into the hotel, we all went to Houlihan's for dinner. It was good to get some food in our systems, because after dinner we hit a bunch of stores to get started with the shopping madness. Mommy was able to get a bunch of birthday cards for various people, Great Grandma Walter's birthday gifts, some gifts for people at work and for Great Uncle Mike, Great Aunt Debbie, Great Uncle Chuck, and Great Aunt Sue. We had only scraped the tip of the iceberg, though, because there was a lot more shopping to be done the next day.

Once we returned to the hotel, Great Grandma Cindy and all of our aunts surprised Mommy with a birthday celebration complete with chocolate cake and coffee (for everyone but me- I had water!). It was so nice of them to think of me and we had a great time talking and eating. It must have been too much for Mommy to handle, because I fell asleep as soon as I ate my last bite of cake. Everyone else stayed up to talk until well after 1:00, but I had to get my beauty sleep for the big day to follow.

Saturday started early with breakfast at a place called Nick's Patio. It was super good and we had breakfast with 14 family members! You would think that 14 people would be hard to organize for a shopping extravaganza, but everyone agreed to go their own way and split up to different places. Mommy, Grandma Cindy, and Aunt Sharon started at Toys R Us and were able to find great gifts for your cousins. We then stopped at Bed, Bath, and Beyond before hitting the mall for the rest of the day. It was a loooooong day but Mommy found so many great gifts and had a wonderful time spending quality time with Grandma Cindy. We got to be together for the entire day which doesn't happen very often. At 5:00, we met the rest of the shoppers for dinner and more shopping. We finally made it back to the hotel around 10:00 where we ate more cake and Wendy's frosties. What a great day!

Sunday I returned home to see Daddy, Rudy, and Zoey. Daddy was able to make it out to Babies R Us to pick up your furniture and boy is it BIG!! Right now, your crib is in a box in your room and your dresser is in a box wedged between the couch and the lamp in the living room. Let's hope we can get it into your room! Tomorrow is Mommy's birthday and Daddy's first big game. It will be an exciting, full day so I had better start getting ready for bed. I love you Bug!