Friday we had some people come over to look at the sectional, but what they really wanted was a mirror image of what we have. Virgil & Sherri came over later on and we pooled dinner. Tomorrow is Beth’s birthday, and we were supposed to celebrate it this weekend, but it didn’t quite work out the way it was supposed to. I had arranged for Renee to babysit from about noon on Saturday until around 9pm or so, while Beth and I went to FW to spend some Christmas gift card money at Barnes & Noble, see a movie, and have sushi for dinner. Anyway, I had a meeting Saturday morning, and when I got home Beth told me "we have a problem." Renee (and Jacob) had been sick with something like the flu all night. Sooooo, we took the kids with us. Of course, we can’t take them into a B&N, so we made an appointment from them to have pictures taken at Picture People at the mall, and we took them with us. We discovered toothpaste on Alex’s shirt after we got there so Beth ran out to find another at a store across the way, but I must say however that they were great. The seemed in to mood to have their pictures taken. They listened, did what was told to them, looked at the camera and smiled...and we got some great shots of them. We also hit the Disney Store and got some sales; Alex found a Mack the truck from "Cars" and Missy found a plush Dumbo, which she loves more than anything. After getting our pictures, we decided not to keep the kids out there until dinnertime because neither one of us would enjoy dinner if we did, and they certainly wouldn’t eat sushi. So we went home.