Well today was designated at Ellie's Special Day. I had been planning on taking her to the BYU Women's Basketball Game tonight, but then Mom gave me a gift card to Iggy's, so I decided to take Ellie to dinner before the game. However, after some thought I decided to make a whole day out of it. I told Ellie of my idea on Tuesday and she couldn't wait. She loved it when I told her that she could do anything that she wanted to do, "as long as it was nice." So how did the day go?
After waking up, and getting ready for the day, we decided we were hungry and so we had to go to Krispy Kreme. Ellie loves watching the doughnut maker and watching the doughnuts go through the waterfall o' glaze at Krispy Kreme. Whenever we go, we get the 2-doughnut kids pack (1 for Ellie and 1 for me), plus the sample glazed doughnut that they gave to each of us. So for four bucks, we got 4 doughnuts, an orange juice, a hat, and some things for Ellie to color. All in all, a most excellent way to start off the day.
Once we were done with Krispy Kreme our next stop was the University Mall. Why? Because it is the most awesome mall ever. Actually that isn't true. I would have to say Fashion Square in Scottsdale or South Coast in Costa Mesa are the best malls, I have been to, but I digress. We went to the mall, because they have a pretty good playground there with a treehouse and dinosaur stuff. However, when we got there, the thing she wanted to play with the most, was a globe that was set in a little bit of water. You can spin the globe and that's about it. So she played for a little while and then Ellie asked to walk around the mall. I was surprised about this, but walk around the mall we did. We stopped in a game store where she watched a toy roller coaster they were selling, and then we wandered around a Toys R Us Express, before heading back to the car. While walking back to the other end of the mall, where we had parked, Ellie rode of my shoulders and I was feeling a little silly, because I was kind of walking and dancing at the same time. Ellie got a kick out of it, and I am sure there were some people wondering why I was acting like a crazy person, because I have no rhythm at all.
Before heading home for lunch, we took a drive to Bridal Veil Falls to see if the whole waterfall was frozen yet, which it wasn't. Then we watched Despicable Me before eating lunch and taking a nap. Once naptime was over it was game time. First we played a mean game of Sorry, where Ellie beat me again. Then we played some Wii, where I was dominated in the Swordfighting game, but held my own in the bowling game. By this time it was about 4:45, and I think Ellie was getting a little tired of having me around. So she asked if she could watch Phineas and Ferb for a little while before we headed off to dinner and the basketball game.
The day ended with us bundling up, and going to Iggys for dinner. Ellie loved the gigantic big screen tv and we had a lovely dinner, before heading over to the Marriott Center and watching BYU take on UNLV. Ellie loved the fact we were able to sit so close and that it was a womens game. For the first half of the game she was really into it... screaming BYU at the top of her lungs. It was fantastic and brought a tear to my eye. I have created a BYU fanatic, and couldn't be happier. So we ate popcorn, and watched the game, before heading home and ending the day.
It was a busy day, but an extremely enjoyable day, and one that went by too fast. I hope that we get to have lots more of these kinds of days in the future. Thanks for a great day Ellie, I absolutely loved it, and I love you.
