Hannah's 13th Birthday Party

Hannah's 13th Birthday...I can't believe we have a teenager in the house! Her big gift from us was getting her ears pierced which we did before we left for Mexico. We bought her a few other small presents, but her other large present is to go to the Justin Bieber concert at the Champlain Valley fair. How's that for a typical teenage gift? Ha!

For her birthday, she wanted a party with her friends. She invited Camila, Sol, and Gracie over and was so excited to have a "Mexican birthday party." As is traditional, there of course was a pinata. Owen had fun picking it out although I did have to explain that no, Hannah would not like a life-size Spider Man pinata! He ended up picking out a cute bunny rabbit and Hannah thought it was adorable. We decided to whack the pinata during the first part of the party since we were going out to a Chinese restaurant (Hannah's choice) for dinner and it might be too late when we came home. The kids had a great time taking turns and singing the traditional Mexican pinata song (which we don't know, but the other girls at the party sang for us). Just as the pinata was breaking, a storm rolled in and it started raining. Everyone madly scooped up the candy and we hurried indoors. Whew!

It rained and poured, and the cracks of thunder were enormous. These tropical storms are unlike those back in VT. We lost power several times which made the 4 girls scream in extremely high pitched voices. How old are these kids??? Girls will be girls. Anyway, we waited and waited for the rain to let up but realized our walking trip to the restaurant was not going to happen as planned. Luckily, they do take-out so we placed our order and the food was delivered in a short while to our door. Everyone chowed and then the girls had a sleepover.

All in all, I'd say Hannah had a great time and will remember this birthday here in Mexico.












I forgot to mention all the goofy games the girls played. Here's a picture of a game called chins. You draw faces on your chin and then go upside and talk. All of them had marker on their faces and played this game for awhile...no alcohol was involved I promise!