Maria's Birthday

Maria woke up this morning to a beautiful breakfast prepared by Vavo and Vavu. The table was set, there were pastires, fruit, longanisa, and a fritatta that Vavu made. We enjoyed a nice meal together with Uncle Howie then got ready for the day. Vavo and Vavu offered to stay with the boys so that Maria and Andrew could go out shopping.

Maria decided that she wanted to go to Sephora (makeup store) today to claim her free birthday gift. They gave her a free tote and Vanilla Birthday Cupcake shower and bath bubbles. She broke her no-makeup-purchases ban for her birthday and bought Too Faced Starry-Eyed Liquid Eyeliner in Mad Mad Love (pink glitter). It was really hard to just buy one thing! They had the Bare Escentuals Mineral Veil on the Go that she had been wanting, and the new Extreme Glimmers eyeshadow collection, too! Oh well. We’ll live without those. But pink glitter eyeliner – now that’s something special. :-)

Then we did some more window shopping in Pinnacle Hills Promenade. There are some really nice stores there. Next, Maria wanted to go revisit Hobby Lobby. She spent a long time in there, looking at every single little thing! After a short jaunt to Target in Fayetteville, we headed back to Rogers for dinner at Maria’s Mexican Restaurant.

Vavo, Vavu and Uncle Howie met us there with Aiden and Jeremy. David, Stephanie and Madison were able to join us too. The boys had made Maria happy birthday cards. The Summits gave Maria a Starbucks giftcard. They sure know what she likes! Vavo and Vavu surprised Maria with something very special. Two tickets to go see the touring production of Disney’s the Lion King at the Kansas City Music Hall tomorrow. What a wonderful surprise! Andrew then surprised Maria with two more tickets – so we can take the kids with us. :-) We’re really looking forward to it.

So tomorrow morning we head out for our drive back to Kansas City. We will spend the night after the show, then depart on Saturday. It was a great birthday today, with more fun to come tomorrow!