I'm Legal!!!!

Well, I'm 18!! It's crazy to think about. 

You wait for something all your life and then once it happens, it doesn't 

seem as grand. Funny how that works.

When you're a little kid, all you think about is growing up and 

being older and therefore "cooler", but 

once you get there (18 I mean) you look back and you realize that those 18

year olds you once looked up to really weren't 

that old. Now that I'm 18

I feel older, but at the same time I still feel young. Haha, does 

that make sense? 

Anyway, I do love being able to say that I am 18! It feels great! :)

I had such a good birthday: 

• My friend Kristen kidnapped me
• We did watercolor painting at the park and made a Little Mermaid music video
• We raced around in shopping carts at Target
• Ate lunchables and went down slides
• Bought lotto tickets at the 7/11 and drank slushies
• AND we did a message in a bottle and released it in the creek 

chalking at the park :)

the night before we went to this open field in her neighborhood and sang at the top of our lungs as we ran through the field! i've always wanted to do that, so we did :) it was so much fun to talk and catch up with her!

our scratch lotto tickets....i lost, haha

our message in a bottle! it really was legit 

 So after our adventure, I went home and waited for my mom to get

off work. She got home like 5 minutes 

after I did and then we went out shopping. We window shopped at Target, went to 

the Chick-Fil-A at the mall, and then 

got some shoes at Payless! 

After that we picked up my dad from work and headed to Costco to get 

me a computer for college (that was my favorite present)!

This year instead of doing a traditional birthday cake, 

we each picked out individual cake slices from Albertson's. That way we all got 

what flavors we wanted! I got a chocolate snickers cake! It was YUMMY! 

I love birthday cake!

I really enjoyed spending my special day with my family and friends! I love them all so much!

I also loved just talking and spending 

time with my mom, especially since I've been gone for so long! 

I love her so much!

Well, here's to being 18, "I'm so old" (sarcastic) :) I'm looking 

forward to life ahead, and maybe in 10 years when I turn 28 I can truly say that I feel old!