10th birthday and to the beach

I am so behind on CJ’s blog. I hate that to because you forget all the little funny details that have happened. It has been a whirlwind since Montse and Ellie came and then school started.  School is not good this year and all I have been doing to paperwork and meetings.  Even night I come home with piles of work I feel that I have been such a bad mom.  I have been so busy I have not been even able to sit at night with CJ and read to her.  Last night she begged me to read just a page but I was just too tried.  It was so late and I just wanted to go to bed myself.

July 27^th Montse and Ellie arrived.  CJ could not have been happier to have Ellie here.  We got to the airport early because we were so excited.  That I mean is we got to the airport a day early.  Then I got thinking about the date and called to find out that Montse was still in Phoenix.  She thought that she was leaving on Monday I thought that she was coming on Saturday and when we looked on the ticket we saw she was coming on Sunday.  So CJ and I returned to the airport on Sunday to pick her up.

It was so fun having Montse here.  I was sad that she had to work and on CJ’s birthday she was not able to come with us to the water park.  CJ for her birthday wanted a mermaid tail cake and to go with Ellie and Claire to the water park.  We spent the day at the water park and everyone had a really good time.  We came back to the house for cake and ice cream and then off to Ruby Tuesday’s for dinner.  CJ wanted to go to Ruby Tuesday’s because last year when Ellie and Montse came we stopped a Ruby Tuesday’s in Atlanta and had a very nice dinner.  This time it was not like that.  The service was bad and the food was not very good.  But CJ did not care she was just happy to have us all there for her birthday.

Two Days after CJ’s birthday we went to the beach.  We got a beach condo in Hilton Head.  The condo was not the best but I have stayed in much worse and was very happy to be at the beach.  This was Ellie’s first trip the the beach and of course CJ loves being at the Beach.  As soon as we got there they had to go play on the beach and in the water.

Sunday morning we got up and went into Savannah.  I got a migraine but worked really hard not to let it ruin everyone’s good time.  What ruined everyone’s good time was the rain.  It was hot and rainy the whole time.  Even with the umbrellas the down pour made it hard to see things and the humidity was just nasty. I love Savannah but this made it really hard to show anyone how beautiful it was.  While Montse and Ellie were in church we went to Savannah’s history museum.  They had some really great Juliette Low artifacts and history; Almost better when when we sent to her house last year.  After Montse got out of church she took CJ to a Macaroon shop so that CJ could try her first Macaroon.  She loved them.  She became interested in macaroons after watching Gracie: The American Girl Doll Movie.  In the movie Gracie makes macaroons.  CJ got the movie for her birthday.  Then Montse took us to Blue Moon Brewery which is to be the most hunted restaurant in Savannah.  We did not see any ghosts, but we did go to the basement looking for them.

I am going to add this to the blog tonight and I will add more later.