Maria had a Birthday?

Why yes, Maria did have a birthday. She is officially a TEENAGER!
We worked Saturday morning, so by 2 in the afternoon Maria was pretty discouraged.
But it was all good, she went babysitting, so my Mother, Mara, and I set off on our mission.
It all started with Chocolate Milk...

My Sweet Mother took me grocery shopping with her, which she hates to do. We walked around the store looking for vegetables, chocolate milk, and other things in between. Finally it was my turn, Balloons. We bought 70 Balloons, hurried through the line, and we were on our way.
Chocolate Milk was on a 2 for $1.00 sale. Or something like that... So we both got one. Not thinking about Mara who was at home putting streamers up in mine and Maria's room...

Mara did such a great job with the streamers! When I walked up to the bright bedroom Mara stated "I think I've officially made it so that you can't walk in without having to duck under streamers."

Little did we know, we were in for a rough time. I bought 70 balloons, plus we had quite a few from Mara's collection. I discovered that Mara could blow up, and tie about 3 balloons in the time that it took me to just tie one balloons... Things were not easy. This balloon had a hole in it.

"Where is all the air coming out of?!?!" -Leah Anne
"uhh... THE HOLE?!" -Mara
Two balloons ended up with holes, and I attempted to bandage... Well tape them up. This balloon was successful... The other one wasn't so lucky...

This was the other balloon... It didn't really work out...

Maria got home from babysitting and went straight to her room. She was all like

"Giggle giggle giggle"

After she saw her room. Mara and I made her, that's right, MADE her go to the movies with us. We went and saw Julie and Julia. Ahh! It was too adorable. We all enjoyed it!

We then decided we would get our pictures taken in the Photo booth thingy... Well we didn't have 3 one dollar bills. So it didn't work. We then decided we'd use our camera to take pictures of ourselves in the photo booth... that didn't work out too well either. But it was pretty funny!

Then Maria had a brilliant plan. She decided I should attempt to go up the down escalator. That's right, try to run up, the down escalator.

After I attempted that, we went outside to meet up with my Mother dear. She decided we should be taken to the Fast Food Restraunt Wendys. So, we went to Wendys. And ate food.

Maria was sooooo super happy... You just can't tell in this picture...

Mara was enjoying herself too...

As well as Kaytlyn... Okay... She was really eating a sour orange.

On Sunday Maria had her cake... Well she decided she didn't want a birthday cake, instead she wanted Birthday Brownies. So of course, she got what she wanted.

Gabrielle made the very delicious chocolatey soft brownies. And was really annoyed with Maria when she exclaimed that she was going to cut an "M" into the Brownies.

Gabrielle got pretty upset, and asked if she could just have a normal piece... This was about as normal as it got for Maria's brownie cutting.

As soon as Peter saw, he decided he wasn't that hungry for Brownies anymore. Too bad huh?