What a nice day

We had such a nice family day today. Ben and I took the older kids uniform shopping in Charlotte this morning. The new school that they are going to requires that everything be bought from the one uniform store. Since it was tax free weekend we decided that today was a good day to go. Sophie was so excited to go and play with Jack and her Aunt Kimie and Uncle Brad. She loves to go over to Kimie's house and it was such a big help. It's hard to clothes shop with a busy 2 year old needing attention! After we finished shopping we went to Lexie's favorite restaurant, Olive Garden. After we ate all of the breadsticks we could we went and picked up Sophie. We are dog sitting for a friend across the street while they are out of town. She's a wonderful friend who pet sits for us when we leave town and with our crew that is saying a lot! They have a pool in their backyard and told us to use it while they were gone. So, needless to say we have really enjoyed it. We all spent a few hours swimming and the kids got to show off and splash around. Lexie has been asking to go see Hairspray, so Ben took her on a "date" tonight just the two of them to see it. I remember being little and doing special things with my dad and it makes me smile to see my little girl with her daddy. I know one day far too soon she'll think she's too grown up to spend time with us.