Happy Birthday Sierra!!

Happy Birthday to my baby girl!! It's so hard to believe that she is 8 years old already! Sierra had a couple of friends from school stay for a sleepover on Friday. They had so much fun! They swam until dark and then played in the tent until about 10:00 until a spider ran them in the house! They did makeup, watched movies and danced around enough to make my legs sore! I have no idea what time they finally went to sleep. I went to bed at 1am and they were still up! Sierra had a High School Musical cake. For her present she wanted the Hannah Montana DVD and CD. Her friends each got her a new Bratz doll (you can't wrong with that).

On Saturday I took the girls to the Rec to swim. The Rec has a really big slide as part of the outdoor pool. You have to be 53" tall to go down the slide. Sierra is just a touch too short. We found out that they have a 'swim test' and if you pass it they write your name in a book and give you a bracelet each time you come so that you can go down the slide even if you're not tall enough. Of course Sierra wanted to take the test. The test involves jumping into 11' deep water and swimming the length of the olympic size pool and then doing the backstroke the entire way back. I was worried about Sierra being able to go the distance because she's never swam the distance before. However, the problem seemed to be Sierra working up the courage to jump into the deep water. She finally worked up enough courage and she did it!! I was soooo proud of her! She's so happy that she can go down the slide now anytime she wants!

Saturday night we went to the drive in with Shell and the kids and saw Live Free or Die Hard and Transformers. (Both were excellent from what I got to see.) Sierra was so wore out from her sleepover and swimming that she fell asleep 10 minutes into Transformers. Maddie and Brandon seemed to enjoy the drive in, especially Transformers.

On Sunday (Sierra's actual birthday) Mom, Shell, Maddie, and Brandon came over to celebrate with Sierra. We had another cake, this time it was a Tinkerbell cupcake cake. Levi even got his own cupcake. He absolutely loved it of course! Later, Sierra went shopping and out for dinner with her Mamaw (Dave's mom). She got to pick out a new outfit and an awesome pair of boots. Mamaw had the servers at the resturant sing happy birthday to Sierra and she really liked that. I think she had a really nice birthday. I hope so anyway. I know that I tried really hard to make it special and so did everyone else!