Happy Birthday, Brynna!!!

Very hard to believe our little girl is 13 today!

The kids and I determined to get our school work done as early as possible so that Brynna and I could get some quality girl time in. Time away from her brothers was the main gift for her from Brock and I. It worked as great motivation for Bryn and I, but some other people didn't get the memo. One child still had difficulty getting into the "school groove" and so sapped some time earlier in the day.

Still, Bryn and I set out for girl time around 2:30 this afternoon. We drove first to Luxury Nail & Spa right here in Haines City and put our feet in the foot baths and let the massage chairs work away our cares. We ended up with such soft feet and beautiful toes! I think our very steps were lightened on the way out. Bryn's toenails are lovely shade of blue with white zebra stripes and mine are a pretty pink.

Gorgeous!

From there, we drove to a mall about 12 miles away from Haines City where we found our growing girl a new outfit at Aeropostale (a first for us), a pair of shorts, and a belt. We also found some other needed clothing articles for the boy members of the family. We really enjoyed just spending time together more than anything.

Horse cake

By the time we got back to the trailer and rejoined the rest of our family, we were genuinely glad to see them again. :O) We had some pizza and salad for dinner and homemade birthday cake and ice cream. Brighton made Brynna an awesome stop motion Lego video as her birthday present from him and the entire family enjoyed seeing that. Bryn got to stay up a little extra late tonight in honor of her birthday and now we're all ready for sleep.