Our Little Cottage

Spoiling My Daughter {just a little}

I had to go grocery shopping on Saturday.  And just like EVERY time I have to go to the store Arlee and Frosty were arguing over who was going to be going.  "Well, I asked first!" and "You go to go last time!" was all I was hearing!  I hate to have to choose between them because someone is going to be disappointed...and one of them has to stay at home to help out Daddy.

When Danny and I was having coffee that morning I said to him that I was just going to go by myself shopping that way I can get some time alone.  He said that sounded good, and that I needed some alone time.  BUT, when I was getting ready....I started thinking about Arlee.  She's 11 years old now...growing up ya know...around a bunch of boys!  She's been getting quite the attitude for the past couple weeks or so{nothing too awfully bad, rolling eyes, grumpy and moody more often those types of things}.  So I thought maybe some girly-girl time might help her out a bit!

So Arlee and I got ready and headed for the MALL...oh boy was she stoked!  This is the first time she has actually been to the mall that she can remember...we used to go more often when she was younger, but not as much for the past few years.  When we got there, we were both STARVING so we headed to the Food Court.  Had us some Subway {which was really good...I haven't had Subway in some time!}.  Of course, we got the cookies that came with the meal.  Both of us ate one and saved the other for Daddy & Frosty.

When we got done eating she wanted to ride the merry-go-round.  It's so funny going out with a "tween"....she wants to "go to the mall" because it's cool  but when she gets there she wants to ride the merry-go-round....LOL!  After that we hit up Claire's {a jewlery store}.  Arlee found a ring that she just LOVED.  We went ahead and shopped around the rest of the mall to see if she would find anything better {or cheaper}, but she didn't.  So we went back to Claire's before we left so she could get her ring...

She paid for it with her own money too!  Daddy paid her $1 for each mastered subject from school...which equalled like $8.  And she had a little saved up from here and there.

While at the mall I was able to get me some new shoes, too!  Oh my did I need some!!  My MIL got me a $20 gift card to Payless Shoes, but I just never got to go until now!  I'm SO EXCITED about my new shoes....

These were $19.99, so the gift card covered these... 

These ones were only $8, so I got them too because I just couldn't put them back!  I thought they were both so very cute...

We even saw our friend Angel_Kisses at the mall!  That was an unexpected surprise!  It was very nice to see her and get to talk to her for a minute or two!

After the mall, we ran over to Aldi to do our grocery shopping for the week.  When we were done at Aldi, we went thru the drive thru at Steak-n-Shake for me an orange freeze and Arlee a strawberry fruit yogurt smoothie thing!  They were so yummy on that hot day!!  Mmmmm!

Our last stop was over to Wal-Mart.  I had to pick up steak and some Itallian seasoning.  While there I picked up 2 cool school binder-portfollio-trapper keeper thingys for Arlee and Frosty.  I really liked them because of the little file folder part it had.  I got them both 2 regular folders too to put in them.  Arlee got to pick hers out...one was a pretty little purple one and the other was a High School Musical one!  {giggle!}

While we were at WalMart I let Arlee pick out a yummy smelling body spray too!  She picked out a Vanilla flavor.  I also got her a clear nail polish that has these little hearts that will go on your nails right out of the bottle! 

I cleared off a small shelf just for her "girly-girl" stuff in our medicine cabinet too!  She added her new stuff and some lotion and such she already had...she was SO EXCITED about this one!  Oh, she also bought herself some new LipSmackers chapstick at WalMart too...cookie dough flavor! 

I almost forgot that I also got her a magazine!  Girls Life!  Oh, she devoured that one as soon as we got home!!  LOL!  I also got a quad mag for Danny & Frosty to share!

We had a really good day together!

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I don't think I've written since Danny got his "new" truck...Danny got is as a work truck...not to actually drive to work, but for like carrying gravel, quads, and such.  A truck that he doesn't have to worry about getting dirty or scratched up!  He's so excited about his truck.  He was working on it on Saturday doing an oil change and changing the spark plugs and stuff.  Danny's been talking for quite some time about wanting a truck so we don't have to ask someone else when we need anything hauled.

Here's a picture of it...

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 Well, since I've been having so much trouble with my computer I'm going to going ahead and end my journal here.  I hope everyone was a great week!!