Hannah's Birthday

What a fun filled birthday for Hannah! She was up, ready for school, bed made and raring to go shortly after 6:30. She was ready to open up her birthday presents from Mommy and Daddy and from her Aunt, Uncle, and cousins that live out of state. She was excited to get Hannah Montana bed sheets, new purple Crocs, Pixos, a 'big girl' Bible, and a set of books on CD to listen to! For the last two years, I've brought Hannah lunch of her choice on her birthday. I was trying to get out of it this year, but it means so much to her, I caved. She chose McDonalds and Rachel and I joined her for lunch. We had a whole table of giggling, talkative girls, and it was so good to see some of Hannah's former classmates over the lunch period. Hannah's birthday celebration continued after school when we headed to Disneyland for the evening. We made our way to the ticket booths and obtained her birthday button and her $59 Fun Card and then we were off into Disneyland!We made it into the park, just in time to watch the 3:30 showing of the new street parade called "Celebrate". We were at a bad spot along the parade route, so we'll definitely have to see it again. But from what we could see, it was cute!A few days ago, I learned that a longtime friend and her kids would be making a trip to Disneyland today, her daughter has been Hannah's best friend since birth, literally. I told her we'd be there after school and we could meet up and totally surprise Hannah on her birthday. They ended up working it out and they stayed. We totally surprised Hannah. If you could have seen the expression her face, it was priceless. The two jumped up and down for what seemed like an eternity. They linked arms and we were off. The birthday princess leading of course. One of the things that Hannah had seen a couple weeks ago were the new stations that you can design your own mouse ears. This was one of the things she had hoped to use her Fun Card on, so we made our way to the Mad Hatter on Main Street and Hannah went to town at designing her ears. She chose a pink base with fuzzies and silver jeweled ears and a princess crown patch. They turned out cute and she wore them proudly for the rest of the night!The rest of our time, we spent over at California Adventure. Having dinner, running about and playing tag on the rope bridges in The Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, getting on the Toy Story Midway Mania ride, and more store window shopping. We decided to head out to the large World of Disney store in Downtown Disney for more shopping, courtesy of the Fun Card. And it is then that our friends bid farewell and we went our separate ways, them to the parking structure and us into the store. Hannah shuffled around for what seemed like forever. We decided to save the card and go back and shop next week and take her time in picking stuff out, rather than buying cheap, plastic toys that will break, etc.It was a great, great birthday. And she's now looking forward to Saturday, when she'll have some friends over for a Hannah Montana birthday party. "It'll be the best of both words", don't you know!!!