Happy Birthday to WHO?? OH! To me. :)

I had a birthday! haha and it was a very nice one, might i add. We decided to go up north for my birthday (state baseball...) And i had a good time. It was kinda sad because that was the FIRST day I missed all school year, and It's going to be the only day as well. But it was nice to not have to worry about school. I got to relax! I guess I could say that certain aspects of my birthday weren't that great, but overall i had a wonderful day... I will not give you a full cover on my birthday. Whether you care, or not. And if you don't care...That is seriously fine with me. :)

I was the first one to wish myself a Happy Birthday. I finally fell asleep a little after 12. I slept...a little uncomfortably (due to sleeping on a couch cushion...) But it was OK. At about 6 in the morning my cousin Jess's alarm went off and she wished me a very happy birthday and sang to me. The song she sang though...maybe you've heard it: "Happy Birthday HUH Happy Birthday HUH, There is sickness in the air, people dying everywhere, but it's your birthday. so happy birthday HUH." A great way to start my day ;)

It was about 8...I think when i finally rolled out of bed. (or cushion...) I stepped out of the bedroom and was met with very enthusiastic Happy Birthday!'s. It was happy :) My parents went off to the baseball games and i basically hung out at my Aunt Valerie's house with cousins.

At eleven we went to my cousin Jake's preschool graduation, and it was really cute! One down-side to me about not being at school on my birthday was the fact that i love having XPress come and sing to me. It's been done nearly every year that I've been to school on my birthday!

Last year (it was at a track meet) :


But during the program when i had this random 644 I had NO idea who it could be and just ignored the call. Then i get this text from my mom a couple minutes later... "XPress is calling you! Answer the phone" So i told her to have them call me back and i went outside to wait. They called and sang to me, which made me pretty happy. *And next year i will be IN XPress!! WOOH!*

After that...Well i don't think we much except hang out... :) When my parents got home from the baseball game they took Me, Merill, and cousins Jess and Danny out to Olive Garden. Danny had never been to Olive Garden before! The food was delicious! I LOVE Olive Garden. The waiter found out that it was my birthday, and My loving family and him decided to embarrass me. So he went and got 6 or so other guys and they came to sing to me. It was a really kinda...Slow time, so when all these guys started singing to me EVERYONE stopped talking and it got suddenly quite as they all looked over at us. It was kinda embarrassing.... And you can tell from my face in the picture!



Jess and I at Olive Garden...


Then after the wonderful food... I got my birthday present! It was a new phone!! A Samsung glide to be exact. Although to most of you, that's old news. I've probably shown you. :)





Yes, I know, It's beautiful.... Or at least to me! haha

I love it, as you can see from these photo of me loving it on my birthday...




And then...We had cake. Now this is where it probably was a LITTLE bit sad. I didn't get to have my traditional cake. the one that i love. a lot. Cinnamon Cake. BUT the alternative was very good.



(all the kids present + Grandma and Grandpa who where there as well...)






All in all, very good! After that, or a little while later...Jess and I went to the movie Confessions of a Shopaholic. It was really cute! But on the way there, i kid you not, we hit EVERY single red light. EVERY single one. If you dont believe me ask Jess ;) But we actually didn't end up missing anything vital to the plot, so it was good.

SO...

Now for a story about Mice. When we got home, it was pretty late. But Jess wanted me to have something better to sleep on. So she and I went out into the garage and got this foam pad-or we tried to. Jess saw a mouse and screamed and went running inside. And I, having NO idea what was going on screamed as well and followed her in. Aunt Val though...Well she didn't believe that there was really a mouse. We finally went back out and got it, brought it into her room, and saw that there was mouse droppings on it... Then my Aunt and her mom was a little more believing... haha. For some reason we still opened it and a MOUSE ran out of the foam. Both of us SCREAMED and ran out of the room shutting the door behind us. Valerie came to see what was going on, and then got the cats the get rid of the mouse. We stayed up for an hour or so after that looking for the mouse, Me, Jess, Valerie, Suzi Q, and Tootsie...But we never found the mouse.

Now, you may be thinking "McKenna and Jess are delusional, there was no mouse!" and if that is what you are thinking...Then you are wrong. There is (or was) a MOUSE in your house Valerie!!

Needless to say, Jess and I didn't sleep in her bedroom that night.