Mary had a wonderful birthday. Rich's mom went in with us to buy Mary a real opal birth stone ring and she was thrilled. After we got her the ring we had a girls day at a nail salon. Mary had her first professional manicure. We had so much fun. Mom's birthday was the 25th so she celebrated her birthday with Mary. Rich made a wonderful chocolate cheese cake from scratch using our homemade sour cream and cream cheese. To say the least it was delicious!! On Sunday we took them out to Olive Garden for their birthday dinner. Rich's sister, Maura, was able to join us for the celebration. After dinner we came home and opened cards and ate the chocolate cheese cake.
I am so proud of the loving sweet young lady Mary is growing up to be. She loves the Lord and her family very much. She is such a precious gift from the Lord to us and he is giving us the strength and vitality to raise her. We have so much fun together as a family and we love working together and doing projects together. We can't wait to see all that the Lord has in store for her!
