Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Birthday Shopping


After dropping Zach off at school, we went to AC Moore. Corey was brave enough to go into the store with Gretchen. Gretchen had to get some stuff to scrapbook with. She's trying to do a scrapbook for Corey's Marine Corps Service. Also, Gretchen is still doing some more of Zach's. She just finished his whole first year.

Then, we went to Toys R Us. While we were there we got Zach's birthday gift from us, Gretchen's parents birthday gifts from them along with Christmas gifts from them. Gretchen's parents asked us to do his shopping for them so that they didn't have to haul it down here.

It was nice for us to spend some time together and to be able to do some shopping without Zach. We went out to eat together after we got done our shopping, read a couple chapters of this book that we are reading called, "Sheet Music" by Kevin Leman. Then, we picked Zach up from school.

When we get home from school, Zach always gets to eat lunch and then goes down for a nap (even though he doesn't always take one). Then, it's either scrapbooking time for Gretchen, snuggle time for Corey and Gretchen and/ or nap time for Corey as well. It's so nice to be able to spend time together as both a couple and as a family.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please send us some gift ideas for Zach's birthday and Christmas. I need to finish my shopping early this year. What are some things he likes? Is he into Thomas the Train? Veggie Tales? Anything else?

Glad to hear you are able to have some 'couple time' and that Zach is enjoying school. He seems like a smart little guy! Kara was asking about him today. She sees his picture on the website and then talks about him. Thanks for keeping us up-to-date on all his adventures!