She turned 13 on Friday, May 13th. By the way 13 is her lucky number and mine too...we figure that since everyone else thinks it's unlucky then we will take it for our own!
We invited some of her crazy-silly-giggly girlfriends over last Friday for her b.day celebration. They played the "T-shirt" game, ate pizza, salad and watermelon. Then we took them to "Dave & Busters" to do some kiddie gambling....gotta get them ready for Vegas! Or as Aunt Deb refers to it the "Hillbilly Hang Out". Then it was back home for ice cream cake, gifts and some fun on the Wii.

I will try and post the "D&B" pictures on my other blog later...enjoy :)

from left to right...Cara, Lauren, Paige, Lindsey and Brooke.
Brittany could not make it this year...she had to be up at 5 a.m. to go to Cedar Point with her schools band...that is what we are doing THIS weekend.

Lauren drew...yes drew this beautiful horse picture for Paige. We went out and bought a frame for it the next day. Paige really has a sweet bunch of friends and they happen to be very smart and talented too.

Paige's friend Lindsey gave her this cute quilted black and pink case that had nail polish and hair bows in it. I love this picture below of Paige and Megan looking so amazed at the little mirror inside the case. What a couple of monkeys!

We invited Megan's b.f.f. Cameron so Meg would have a friend to hang out with. Cameron's mom adores Paige and they gave her a very generous g.c. to one of Paige's favorite stores.

This is her "going to California" shirt! I saw it on the sale rack and new she had to have it...it was hard to save it for her b.day.

This yellow "Life is Good" shirt says "forecast mostly sunny". I thought that was a pretty good shirt for a 13 year old!

We got her some t-shirts, a make up bag with some eye make up, earrings, a bird call, a cute little plaid handbag, and this mp-3 player. It's by Polaroid and it has a touch screen, a built in speaker and it also holds photos and videos and came with headphones. Plus we took her and her friends to Dave & Buster's and gave them each a $10. game card to play on.

Most of them picked out these big plastic slinky's to get with their points at Dave & Busters. You never outgrow slinkys!

You know your kids are growing up when they are more concerned with how the cake taste than what Disney character is on it. Paige had a cookie dough ice cream cake from Graeter's. It was very tasty of course. Her friends sang/yelled her a big happy birthday. You can see Mike standing there trying not to laugh.

It's that time of year...time for the girls to get their dance costumes for the Spring dance recital. It will be on Sunday, May 29th and their show starts at Noon this year. Let us know if you would like tickets to the show. Megan will have a Tap, Ballet and Jazz dance in this years show and Paige will have a Tap dance.
Tickets go on sale Monday, May 2nd
Adults - $12.50
Students and Military - $8.50

This is Megan's Tap costume they are music notes. Miss. Erin has choreographed a really cute and fun dance for them.

Paige's tap class is dancing to John Travolta's version of "Grease Lighting" and they are the cutest "Greasers" I've ever seen. There dance is pretty fast and has lots of fun moves in it.

This is Megan's costume for her Jazz class. They are dancing to "It's a Hard Knock Life"from the musical "Annie". It start's out with the traditional song then halfway through it goes into the rap version. It's a fun dance to watch.

This is the beginning and end of her dance...if you want to see the entire dance we can get your tickets for you.
Their show is on Sunday, May 29th and they are in the 1st show which starts at Noon.

We will get Megan's ballet costume next week since she will miss her ballet class this Thursday because of her schools Spring Art Show.

Here are the last of our zoo pictures...I got a little carried away at the Flamingos. I could just snap pictures of them all day.

It kind of amazes me that the Manatee's main diet is Roamaine lettuce. You wouldn't think there would be enough calories to keep them alive considering they just eat the lettuce no croutons or Caesar dressing.

I always enjoy watching the Green Sea Turtle...he makes me smile.

Today's photo's from the Columbus zoo and Aquarium will start in the Australia and The Islands regions and end in the African Forest.
Enjoy your trip and please don't feed the animals!

Oh happy day...the Koala was awake! I can't ever remember seeing him when his eyes were open...and hey look he moved his arm...he's really alive! Don't ya think his ears sort of look like SOS pads?

This little Wallaby (above) sure was sweet. They look a little more delicate than the Kangaroos.

The girls were ahead of me on the trail and I noticed this roo in the background. I was shouting directions at the girls to scoot this way and that trying to get the roo to look like he was posing with them (it was kind of like herding cats) but I think it turned out pretty cute.

Is it just me or does this Kangaroo look a little like Nicolas Cage?

I was surprised that this shot of the Leopard turned out as well as it did...another shot through a dirty window!

Oh my gosh I could have stayed and watched this baby chimp all day. I was snap snap snapping have lots of cute ones of her, just wish the viewing window was clean.

Here's my sweet girl..I love taking pictures of her too especially when she's not looking. Her skin looks so soft and her cheeks are naturally rosy she could be an Ivory girl.