It is hard to believe that my oldest daughter will be able to date and drive at night in a year. It has been so much fun to be her mom. She is such a hard working, never have to worry about kind of girl. I am so excited for her to be able to drive herself around in 5 months. She is playing volleyball in Twin again and it is a bit of a different experience this year. It isn't quite as "FUN" as it was last year. It is as if they tried to be too big this year and there are A LOT of inexperienced/don't know anything about volleyball girls playing, luckily most of Melissa's team has had some experience. Hopefully things will improve, after all, we have only been to one tournament. It is a lot of money and if we don't feel like it is money well spent we won't be doing it next year.
Anyway back to Melissa, she woke up too early for me to get her breakfast in bed because she had to look beautiful for the day at school. She opened a few presents from mom and dad and ironically they were clothes for her to wear to school. She loves clothes! Girls are definitely much more fun to shop for than boys! It is a bit hard to shop without her there to give a thumbs up or down but I managed to get her mostly surprises this year that were a hit!
Alan has a standing lunch date tradition with the kids on their birthdays. He picks them up from school and takes them out to the lunch of their choice, except for one year he took Rachel to the PDP for leftovers. They love this! It is also one thing that he can do that doesn't require too much preparation. I also have always made signs for the kids on their birthdays. In the past they were always homemade but we have slowly transferred to computer signs that dad makes! He comes up with some of the most witty sayings and he saves them so he can use them over again! (The kids don't know this but he does add a few new ones each year.)
After piano Melissa came home to an interesting meal that I thought would be to die for but, (long pause here) it was not so good. We all managed to shovel some down and gave the rest to Rusty who was most grateful and not picky at all!
We had a volleyball cake and ice cream and opened up more presents. For many years she has not had to go to school on her b-day and I think that she prefers that. At school everyone sang happy birthday to her in most of her classes. She was a bit disappointed to not get balloons from anyone so her aunt Jaime got her some the next day. Better late than never!
***Click on the scrapbook pages for an up close and personal view!
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