Surprise!

I had been planning it for weeks.

Organizing times, dates, who, when, where, all that kind of stuff! And on Saturday was the big day.

My friend, Lauren, has her birthday during the summer, and is always saying how she can never have a party or do anything because everyone is always away.

So my friends and I thought that there would be no better way to make her Birthday special then to surprise her with a party!

I envited all the people that I thought she would want at her party. We had it at my house, a sleepover, with 9 girls! The girls, except Lauren, came a couple hours early and helped me decorate and get ready. She came around 5 and everyone was in there positions. We rehearsed about 4 times and everyone knew their cew!

She walked in, thinking it was just a regular sleepover, with me and two other girls, but as i told her to bring her stuff upstairs four other's popped out from various places! The look on her face was irriplaceable! She was totally surprised!

Through out the night we played games and had a really fun time!

I really think she loved it and had a wonderful time, I know everyone else did!

One of her many silly gifts!

We wanted to do something fun for her...so we filled up a super cute pink trash bin with a bunch of fun, random, and silly things, that we knew she would love!

Weronika and I

Valeria

Valeria, Virginia, and Emily

The Bday girl, Lauren, and Virginia

The partay girls!

Me!

Her reaction to a bunch of girls jumping out at her!

Preparing for her arrival!

xo

London

Last weekend

my parents took me to London for my 15th Birthday!

Packing very light, leaving room in our bags for our new shopping finds, we were off to the land of the English!

The first thing we did once we were in London was the London Eye! It is such a cool ride, you go sooo high in the air (135 Meters to be precise), and you get the best view of London there is. It's a long ride, but the capsules are giant, so we were all able to get pictures of the city from every angle.

This is what we rode in on the Eye

My Mom and Dad

View of Big Ben from the Eye

The day after was my Birthday, so we celebrated it on Oxford and Regents Street, shopping our little hearts away and going in all the American stores we could find!!

After we went shopping we went to dinner and then to a movie! This was my first time, at a movie theater, since Christmas time that we saw a movie in English!!! We saw Slumdog Millionaire, which was very good!

The next morning we packed our bags and got ready to leave, we weren't leaving until that night, so we left our bags at the hotel and did some more sightseeing! We went on a walk through Hyde Park and saw Buckingham Palace along with the Horse Guards.

It was a wonderful birthday and trip!

Kensington Palace

Swans

Gates near Buckingham Palace

Birthday Month!!

March has finally come and it is time for my first German Birthday! I am turning 15 in just 20 days and can't wait! Everyday I tell my friends at school how many days and they often break out singing Happy Birthday!

I love my Birthday and am excited to be 15, but it is going to be strange not having my Birthday at 'Home', without my friends and family, but also a new and exciting experience! My parents told me today that they wanted to take me back to London over my Birthday, to go shopping at some of the American Stores (wahooo!) that they have there and to get in some more sight seeing! I cant wait!!! :)