Danielle's Birthday Party

What better way to celebrate a 10th birthday than a week early on a 4 day weekend. We started celebrating on Friday when we checked the boys into the base daycare and the girls headed to do some shopping for some SPRING SALES - since it's been in the 70's here. Then we headed to the Spiderwick movie (Danielle read all the books so I promised I would take her). We were alittle disappointed with the movie since it did not follow the books very well at all. But it was still a good flick. We then headed home to wait for the arrival of our guests. Grandma and Grandpa! They arrived around 9:30 pm. We were all up anxiously waiting for them. The next day was the big party. Grandpa stayed home and tended the boys and did the honey do list that was waiting for him, while the girls headed to..............

AMERICAN GIRL PLACE, L.A.
Danielle took a friend and her sister to the American Girl Place for a day of fun! (of course mom and grandma got to go too) We went shopping, to a great show, and more shopping. The girls had sooo much fun. Mom and Grandma even had a blast.
We arrived at the Grove shopping Plaza in Hollywood, at around 11 am. We found the closest bathroom right away for mom (me - I had been holding it for 30 mins). While walking out of the store with the bathroom we were talking about how we had no idea where the A.G. store was, then the girls looked up and right outside the window was the big A.G. Star. It was right across the street. So we headed over and this was Danielle as she entered the store and then after a few minutes into our shopping.




"I WANT EVERYTHING!"

We then dropped the dolls off at the Salon to get their hair done. We went upstairs to the hospital and admitted Molly for some major surgery. (She needs a new wig, but unfortunately they can't just do new hair, so she will be getting a whole new head). Then we went to the Theater to see the American Girl Revue. It was a musical about the historical characters. Way fun!


We then shopped some more. Danielle had a great time spending all her birthday money. She got some great things for her dolls. We then picked up the dolls from the salon and they looked fabulous.




What a fun day! We were so busy having fun and shopping we didn't even stop for lunch until 4 pm.


Sunday we went to Church and then just hung out with grandma and grandpa. It was so much fun. We were all very sad to see them leave this morning.