Thirteen!!

 Today is Hannah's 13th Birthday!!!  So fun! She had some very specific requests for her birthday.  She did not want to have a party.  She wanted to have breakfast in bed, followed by pedicures and lunch.  She wanted to go to the movies and see "The Odd Life Of Timothy Green" and then have the Martines' over for dinner.  She wants to have mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, chicken pitas, monkey bread, hawaiian bread and Sister Black's cinnamon rolls for dinner.  She also did not want any presents but an ipod/pad.

Early this morning Grace and I started phase one of the celebratory plans.  We bought a bunch of orange and pink balloons and blew them up, in some of them we hid money which we folded up and slid in before blowing.  Hannah gets up late (as all teenagers like to do) so I figured no sweat we can go in at 7am and put them on her bed and she'll be surprised.  Nope, the second we walked in she sat up and said "what's going on?".  Surprise!  We brought the rest in and told her we hid her present in some of the balloons.  She had to pop them to find the $, and now she can start saving for that ipad.   Then we went downstairs, including her, I guess she forgot about the bedroom breakfast service :)

Monique kept E and Lu for us this morning so we were able to continue with her agenda! We grabbed Chelsea and met Christianna and Johnna and went to the salon.  All our toes turned out so cute!

 Next on the list was lunch.  We went to Okada a favorite of ours.  It was a lot of fun eating and laughting with the girls.

 After lunch we went and got the little two and headed to the movies.  I really liked Timothy Green.  So did Lu.  H and Chelsea said they didn't get it to which Lu answered, "I think it was mostly about how it's better to have something you love for a little while than not at all".  E said he didn't like it either and we should have seen Batman.

Now we are home preparing an edited version of Hannah's requested dinner menu.  I deleted some of the bread, and then she'll be off to YW.  I hope it's been a memorable and awesome 13th birthday.  I know for me it's been a memorable and wonderful 13 years!