Happy 10th Birthday Sarah!! Emma spent all afternoon Sunday making this coupon book for her sister. It was very thought ful. Only drawback: she couldn't get them to print small, and printed each page on a full sheet---there were about 15 coupons, all on color, pictures, etc!! Drained the new color cartridge! Oh well, life's too short I guess...

Sarah got a new Ipod Nano, she'd shopped around for me on ebay forever for one. I finally bid on one, won, then had to lie and tell her I lost the bid. It's a lot of fun, I may be borrowing it during the day while she's at school!

We had breakfast at Ihop. Let me say, that was VERY BRAVE of me. Me, alone, with 6 kids, yes, Sarah's friend Taylor too. It may have been my gut, not my head thinking. I had gotten up early and run my long run, and was starved. They all did pretty good though. I do have to say that my 2 yr old did better than my 11 1/2 yr old though...how does that happen?

After brunch, we went to a reptile petting place in Providence. My friend Gigi came w/us. Yes, that is an aligator Sarah is holding, with a little piece of electrical tape holding it's mouth shut.

The kids were not afraid of anything. I was much more afraid than them. The girls had a huge boa constrictor wrapped around their shoulders at one point, no pictures of this though because they charged extra for them. I'm thinking I should have just forked over $5 for one though, it would have made a good pic.

On the way home we hit the mall, Sarah wanted to pop in Justice with her birthday coupon (which we'd actually forgotten! But they were nice and gave her the discount anyway.) She picked out a cute swim suit and cover-up. The one I'd been too is not my most decisive child---which on to get? they are all so cute, and then even after I helped her decide on one, she was totally second guessing her decision down at the other end of the mall! We were not going back though.

Gigi made us a fabulous octopus dinner. Mmm, hot dogs taste so much better when someone else boils them up!

Sarah was pretty easy, she just wanted brownies, with fudge sauce, ice cream, and hard shell on top. Emma busted me on forgetting to buy candles though, thanks Em. Doesn't that look like a #10?

Ta-da, the winning swim suit and cover-up.