Birthday Day!

Today was the big day! Makayla's 12th birthday. Let me back up though. My doubts about not enjoying myself at the Hannah Montana premier went down the drain quick last night. IT WAS GREAT!! I loved it! And I was sooo glad I was the one to get to share that birthday treat with my daughter. My son, Randy, and his fiance' Courtney, had bought the tickets for Makayla for her birthday, and Courtney was originally going to be the one to take her but she had to work. It worked out that I had to go, and I am so glad I did. Oh, and that one Jonas brother is soooo cute! My daughter got a kick out of me telling her that if I was her age, I'd have his poster on my wall for sure and I asked her why she didn't? LOL But let me tell you, if you have a daughter from very young to an older teen, take them to this premier this week if possible! Girls are lining up for it, and I can see why. Miley Cyrus is wonderful, the concert and clips are wonderful, and the 3-D effects are awesome! I thought confetti was actually falling on me. Serious. I will cherish that memory with my daughter forever...and I hope she does, too.

The birthday celebration went on today.....Makayla had wanted to go bowling, and she wanted a couple of friends and her entire family to go. She got her wish, although her Daddy couldn't bowl this time due to a flare up from an old hip injury. I hadn't bowled in about 3 years and I thought my carpel tunnel was going to kill me, and my games suffered as time went on. I bowled a 139 the first game....the second game was under 100. I don't know what that score was because the screen was cleared before I saw it and I knew I wasn't doing well anymore so I didn't keep track. I had to stop after 2 games because my arm was KILLING me. Bowling ball...carpel tunnel.....not a good combo. But I tried, and I'd do it again!! I love to bowl. So, back to Makayla.....LOL. She had a blast bowling with her two friends, Jenny and Emily. And so tonight is the big pajama party! After bowling, we picked up pizzas and headed home for dinner and then the chocolate cake with white buttercream icing and cookies and cream ice cream! The cake was sooo good and verrrry pretty. Sam's Club does an excellent job on their cakes and they are way cheaper than anywhere else too.

Makayla wanted a new comforter set for her bed, and I couldn't find one in time. My mom found one today at Sear's though, and she snuck off early from the bowling alley to come and fix up Makayla's bed as a surprise for her. She loved it!

Makayla had asked for a birthstone ring for Christmas but it couldn't be bought in time, so we told her maybe for her birthday. She's never had a 'real' ring, only the cheap stuff that turns her fingers green. Well, we bought her a 10K White Gold ring with a heart shaped Ameythyst with two little diamonds on each side from Zales. Very special present. And this is how we presented it to her: She had to go on a Scavenger Hunt!! I handed her an evelope with a paper telling her in a poetic way that she had to hunt for her special gift, follow 12 clues (one for each year) and that she'd find clue # 1 on a favorite school page. She had said the other day that Saxon's way of teaching long division by using 'short' division was her favorite. So that is where her first clue was. It said "you're the APPLE of our eye" (next clue located inside a ceramic apple in the dining room). It said "MIRROR mirror on the wall, you're the fairest of them all". And the next one said "you're such a DEER to us", taped to a deer head in our deer hunting room. That one said "you're as pretty as a DOLL" and sent her to the doll I bought when she was 3 because it looked just like her. Next one said "you sing so good you could be on the RADIO". So the next one was taped to our son's stereo and said "or maybe you should make your own CD" and so the next one was in our CD organizer. IT said "you're so beautiful you could be a movie star on TV". It was taped inside the door of our TV cabinet. That one said "are you getting aggrevated? Maybe you should pray, and read your BIBLE every day". It sent her to her Bible, inside the cover was finally the 11th clue....it said "I hope you're having a SWEEPING great time". Taped to the broom in the laundry room was finally clue # 12 and it said "you're heart is still close to Pa Pa's, and your gift is close to him". She thought and thought about that one, and realized she needed to look around her PaPa's picture.....and there it was, behind the picture!

She opened it and absolutely LOVED it. She had a great birthday, as usual. Birthdays are always special in our family, and I've always done all that I can to make them special for each child, so they will know how blessed I feel to have them in my life.