HUGE Birthday Picture Post...

Okay, so this will be a SUPER-LONG picture post, but for a 13 year old, she apparently gets a WHOLE birthday MONTH! hee hee! Allie started her birthday on Thursday with a home softball game! Nanny and Pappy came and brought cupcakes for the Whole team! Aren't they the best grandparents EVER?????? Allie just LOVES them, and even at 13 still BEGS to stay over at their house on the weekends! It is just more fun at Nan and Pap's! :-)

Friday, she had a friend over for a while, then went to the movies with a few friends to see Made of Honor. After she got home, she crawled into bed with me and took silly "self-portraits!" I just love my girl! Remember, this is late at night with NO MAKE UP... brave of me, really! seriously, are you not jealous of their skin... mine is SO shiny... where are the blotting papers????

fun with cartoon function on my crappy camera...well, it is starting to malfunction... so the camera has become something that I yell at, which makes me look MORE unstable at functions!

apparently, my camera does this blue thing... Allie figured it out within 2 1/2 minutes... I have had the camera for 2 1/2 YEARS

Oh, I just love my girl!

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First thing in the morning, crack o' dawn, Allie was up wanting to open her gifts...

Allie ASKED for gift cards... Allie GOT other stuff from us, too...

I made her hold up a 1-3... she was not amused!

oooo, what is it????

a special ring to mark the occasion

the coolest lip gloss EVER.. Snapple... look, they were little twist-off bottles... soooo awesome and yummy!

Allie got Vicky's Secrets perfume...a softball mouth guard since mommy is getting afraid of those super-fast pitchers.... a Hollister outfit... annnnnddd... since the driveway is FINALLY paved....

A BASKETBALL HOOP!!!!!!!! Woo hoo!

Is there something in there for ME, Sissy?

How about me, or do I just get to chew this stinkin paper?

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After present opening, another friend of Allie's came over to sing Happy Birthday, eat cuppy cakes (jealous, Trisha... I SO thought of you with these!), and my mom and dad took the 2 of them to CHUCK E. CHEESE's! What 13 year old wants to go there... MINE! They had a BLAST and played for hours!

After Chuck's, Allie and her friend went to meet others up at the park to "watch" a baseball tournament... translated: watch boys, eat concession food and hang out. We stopped at my parents house for a little bit...MORE pics to follow...From there, she had a party at a different friends house! Whew. What a day! Allie's REAL birthday party is in June... we are having a "school's out for Summer" party for her...

I am VERY grateful for my little girl who is growing up, but not too fast. I just love her. She has a little sunshiny personality, which makes me PROUD to be her mom! I hope that your birthday was a Happy one, little bubbies!