18TH BIRTHDAY!

Oh my goodness. I'm an adult. That's just so weird. Honestly though, I'm pretty much still a kid at heart. So anyways, I had such a fun birthday! The festivities aren't even over yet! My birthday's lasting a solid week and it's beautiful. I'm all for it. Anyways, the day started out with me waking up to someone banging on my bedroom window. I LEAPED out of bed. I was absolutely TERRIFIED. The incessant banging on my window was shortly thereafter followed by incessant banging on my front door. I opened it to find my cute cousins Michael and Jacob standing on my doorstep. Jake sang "Happy Birthday" to me, then the boys left. My dad had left Abby and I my favorite breakfast: bubble bread! So good! Then after I picked Abby up from swim practice, we took a spontaneous trip to get a delicious smoothie from Robeks. Then, my best friends Hannah and Micala came over. We played Guitar Hero, and then went to our favorite restaurant, Charlie Changs, to get some Mongolian food for lunch! So, ever since Hannah and I discovered Mongolian food at  Honors Choir, we've been obsessed. The owner of the restaurant LOVES us and gets so excited every time we come, and gives us free sodas and occasionally discounts on our food. Hannah told him it was my birthday. He was very distraught because they don't sell cake there. He told us to hold on a second, and then returned to our table with a plate of cookies. He had but to orange slices together, put a cherry on top, and then placed a candle in the cherry in the center of the plate. He lit the candle and they all sang Happy Birthday to me! It was the sweetest thing! When we got to my house we were joined by Christine and a little later, Sydney. It was a BEAUTIFUL day, so we decided we would take a walk to the creek by my house. We took off our shoes and walked around in the creek and talked for awhile. Then, we were all thirsty, so we took a spontaneous trip to McDonald's to get one of their delicious smoothies. Then we watched a wide range of T.V. shows when we got back to my house including: The Cosby Show, The Office (of course), Ghost Adventures (dumbest show ever), and Paranormal Activity (creepiest show ever!). When my dad got home from work, he made us homemade pizza and we had oreo ice cream cake! By then it was just Hannah and Micala left, Sydney and Christine had headed off to the HP 7 Midnight Premiere. We just hung out and talked! It was such a fun birthday! I really missed my mom, Amy, and Jenn though! I did get to talk to Amy and my mom on the phone, but apparently Jenn was "too busy with her friends," according to my mom. COOOOL JENN. So, the birthday festivities are continuing over the next few days! Tomorrow I get to open the rest of my presents from da parents (my mom left a couple, but she wanted to be here for the rest) then I'm going to lunch at Cafe Rio with my mama! Then, my birthday present from my best friend Christine was a ticket to Fiddler on the Roof tomorrow night at Wolf Trap! I am SO excited! Our good friends Hannah and Micala are coming too! It's going to be SO amazing! Sunday, we're having STEAK at our family dinner celebrating my dad's, Carter's, Becky's, Jenn's and my birthdays. All of which are within 11 days of each other. Then on Monday I'm going to lunch with Sister Hatch! I'm really digging this whole week long birthday thing! I have some pretty amazing people in my life! So, it was a really really fun day with even more fun to come!