Shopping ... and making memories

So yesterday I took all the kids to the mall for some shopping. Yeah, I have a death wish. But we had some Old Navy coupons and gift cards expiring so it was now or never. The boys were their typical bored selves in Old Navy, running around like banshees and making loud/crazy noises at themselves whenever they passed by a mirror. But we got Cailyn some cute clothes (turquoise skinny jeans, woot woot!) and the boys some flip flops.  Then we went and had some pretzel bites. We got cinnamon ones and salted ones. It's funny how Jacob and Cailyn hovered over the cinnamon ones (little sweet tooths) and Owen & Landon ate all the salted ones. After just one or two more stores we were done. But at the exit there was one of those little photo booth things and I thought, why not? So we all crammed into the tiny little booth and the boys really had no idea what was going on. Between that and us not all being able to fit, the pictures weren't the greatest but my kids just thought that was the coolest thing ever. We got 4 pics so they each got one and they were so excited. Ahhh, it's the little things in life. :)

 So after that we went to Barnes & Noble to spend a gift card Cailyn had. They had this huge kids area we pretty much hung out in and the boys loved getting books off the shelves and plopping down to read them. At one point I guess Owen lost track of me cuz I heard him calling for me. He started walking out of the children's area, a stack of books under his arm, shouting, "Mooom. Oh Moooom! You're missing somebody!" And yes, he attracted a lot of stares. Funny kid.

All in all my kids had a really good time. More and more I'm realizing that it's seizing the little moments that really matter most in life. There, that's my life lesson for the day. :P