Hannah Turns 13

Hannah's 13th birthday was yesterday. She LOVES birthdays! She had been talking about party ideas for months and months. Then not too long ago, she made the decision not to have a party. Some of her friends are a bit dramatic & they don't all get along. This was stressing her, so once she made the decision not to have a party this year, she was relieved.

We did tell her that we would spend the money that we would have spent on her party toward redecorating her bedroom. She loved that idea!

Even without a party, I wanted to make her day super special. I told her that I would wake her up at 8am. I woke up before then & noticed that she had "liked" a picture of mine on Instagram at 6:21 am. She couldn't sleep because she was so excited!

So I went to her room & helped her set up her own Face Book account. She has been begging for one for years, but I have been telling her that she had to wait until she was 13. After that, I told her to get dressed and that we had to be somewhere at 9am. She had no idea what we were going to do. We drove over to our old neighborhood & picked up her friend Kate. Then we took the girls to IHOP for breakfast.

Then we dropped Kate back at her house & continued with our day. We went shopping next. Hannah had been complaining that she didn't own any cute summer dresses. So that was our mission. In between stores we stopped at Starbucks so she could get her free birthday drink.

After some successful shopping, I told her that we had lunch plans. She said she hoped we were going to Moe's. I knew that's where she would want to go, so that's where we were meeting her next friend. We met Livi for lunch. Notice that Hannah has changed shirts - she found this cute t-shirt that said "#BestDayEver" and had to wear it.

Hannah wanted to go to Five & Below so I took the girls there before we had to take Livi back home.

After dropping Livi off, we went to the Town Center. I took her to Ulta where she got a Laura Geller makeover. 

Since James hadn't gotten her a present yet, I let her purchase this Lauren Geller make up set.

After the makeover, we went & got pedicures. I forgot to take any pictures of our pretty toes! Oh well....

Next we went & picked up one more friend, her "Biffle" - Best friend for life (because life is longer than forever?!)

Here is Hannah with her Biffle, Rachel. Hannah is wearing one of her new dresses. We got this one at Wal-Mart.

And here are the girls at dinner. We went to the Clay Oven which serves yummy Greek food.

Then we went home for birthday cake. Hannah selected an Italian Crème cake.

We were totally exhausted by this time. Hannah went to bed shortly after. We had a great time! I am still in disbelief that I have 2 teenagers now!!!