away with rebekah

we had such a great time together!!!

i did have an "agenda" for our time together - but fun was on the agenda!

to have the "talk" - i used a book called passport2purity.
it was awesome. there are 5 sessions - all on cd...covering the things you think it does, plus peer pressure and dating. it was perfect. good discussion questions. good humor. it felt "light" even when it wasn't. yet, she could TELL it was something REALLY special. each session was about 1 1/2 hours long - which includes a talk, a {great!} object lesson and discussion questions. we spread the sessions out over out time together.

other than that, we went out to lunch {pat and i each wrote her letters. and she read them over lunch at pei wei. i thought my heart was going to explode watching her read them.}

we shopped!
{i was struck in our time together at how she would jump back and forth between "little" girl and "on the verge of teen" girl. here we are being a "little" girl in the NEW american girl doll store at the BIG mall!}

listening to a session with a bag of candy on our comfy beds in our hotel room! :-)

we went out to dinner - and she wore a NEW outfit we had just bought! the greeter when we walked in the restaurant went on and on and on about how "stylin'" rebekah was...and even talked to her as we walked out! rebekah's smile was adorable!

i made this face right when she snapped it. i loved her giggle when i did that.

walked around.

shared a cupcake

went back to the room and ordered {a REALLY expensive!} movie on the tv - she LOVED that!
slept
i told her she could wake me up at 8 am if i wasn't awake.
she woke me up at 8 am :-)

we got up and went for a run on the trail
ate breakfast in the hotel
then finished our sessions and got ready to go.

it was a perfect time together.

came home to a crew that was VERY excited to see rebekah.