Grandma and girlies day out!

The last few years I've taken Alaina out shopping before school starts to get a pair of shoes for school, and to do some fun things together.
Ruby is going to Preschool this year so she got to go too.  I had planned to take them separately so we could have some one on one time, but on our first scheduled day I ended up having to take my Dad in for a procedure on his heart.  (he's fine)  Anyway, with school starting so soon, I ended up taking them both together.

Here we are, ready for our adventure!

I laughed when I got in the car and turned around to see these two in their sunglasses, with their water cups all ready to go!

Usually I've gone around 11 and we have lunch first, but this year Laura had an early dentist appointment so we had an earlier start to the day.  We stopped at Old McDonalds (Ruby's title) for an Egg McMuffin before we went shopping.

The mall wasn't open yet, so we stopped at Target.

We found shoes there for each of them.  Some boots with pink laces for Alaina, and high topped sparkly tennis shoes for Ruby!

 After that we went to the mall.  When you go to the mall, you have to ride the escalator!

We found a cute outfit for each of them at Kohls, the pants are different colors but the tops match.

 After that we headed upstairs to the food court and rode the carousel which was probably the girls favorite part of the day.

We had Subway for lunch.

There are other kids rides there too, so they each chose one more ride.

When we went back down, we took the see through elevator and then it was time to go home.

 When I got them home, Laura had a surprise for me.  A beautiful bouquet of flowers!  She bought them because it was our 37h anniversary.

When Bob came home, he came with flowers too - these beautiful roses.
37 years passed very quickly and I'm so thankful for my wonderful husband, my kids and those fun little girls!