ipod

i am going to start with this confession...we caved.

last night, cari went swimming with her best friend and her family. she was so excited to see her and have a chance to play together.

that left us alone with cami and so we decided to take her out.

she has been working very hard this school year and we wanted her to know that her hard work was not going unnoticed. (even though we tell her that all the time)

she loves to eat out so we took her to chilli's where she dove into a basket of baby back ribs.

afterwards, we walked into best buy and tried to play it cool. we started looking at ipod cases for fun...

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after christmas, every girl in her class received an ipod...but her. this is how it usually is with our children. believe it or not, they still love us. we never jump on the bandwagon for the newest gadgets...especially when it comes to buying them for children. it took forever till we were using smart phones ourselves.

this is also pretty unusual given the nature of what my husband does for a living.

anyway, she has been saving her money this year to buy herself an ipod. it only took her 3 months to save up $100. she did a few odd jobs around the house and got most of it from gifts. she finally had the guts to ask her father if he would match her $100 and he surprisingly accepted. 

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...back to best buy, she picked out the cutest owl case while chad was secretly getting a great deal on the ipod itself. we also received a gift card that ended up paying for the case. we are suckers for a great deal.

while we were leaving the store, chad handed her the bag that had the case along with the ipod she has been wanting for so long. 

needless to say, we had to pry it out of her hands late last night just so she could get some sleep. i know she is so grateful to finally have one and we hope she will take good care of it. 

we expressed to her (for the 100th time) how proud of her we are and i'd like to think that this night will be remembered for a long. she is so special to us and very deserving of something like this. she was also given all the rules that go along with the added responsibility of having something like that.

i am personally glad that i won't be getting facetime requests from her friends anymore...it was getting pretty old. she can now keep up with her friends (along with us and her grandparents) over the summer and even get a chance to show it off a little bit next week.

tuesday is their field day and then wednesday is early dismissal after the special awards ceremony.

we are all ready for summer.