So, it all started out after I came home from Youth Conference... I walked into Hallie's house wearing a red FAST PITCH T-shirt, baggy sweatpants, electric blue headband wound around a loose bun at the top of my head, and of course, a smile. Nathan, Bryson, Alicia, and Antonio were already helping make the cake (gluten-free, definitely a plus!) and were starting to put delicious frosting on top. However, we tried to find the perfect platter for your cake, and all we could suit with was the bowl sitting in the middle of Hallie's kitchen, originally filled with clear marbles and some other stuff. My biggest problem was that when they placed the cake inside the bowl, it was off-centered... Now, me and my OCD-ness nearly went crazy, and Antonio tried to back me off because I kept trying to center the cake just a little bit more. Honestly, if he had just let me pass through, everybody would've been happy, especially me. But no, I just sat in the kitchen, signing a "Happy Birthday Natalie!" poster with all my love and listened to Bryson play the guitar. It actually calmed me down a bit...
Then, we all jumped into Nathan's truck, although we took it as a challenge trying to fit 7 people into it...
This would only be 4 out of 7 people in the truck...
(Bryson is somewhere behind Alicia's head, and Nathan and Ivy are on the other side of Hallie.)
After minutes of driving, we finally decided that we needed to take two trips over to your house, Natalie. So first, Alicia, Ivy, and myself were all dropped off at Ivy's house, and while we waited for Nathan to return and pick us up, we did what any bored person would do... take pictures.
Hahaha, Ivy's camera and mine were both on self-timer, so we had to race them at the same time in order to get in the picture...
...This was our best attempt at beating the self-timers. GO US. (:
Finally, Nathan had returned, but because we got so carried away with taking pictures, we decided to hop onto his truck and take a few more. This one's my favorite one out of the rest that we took, and most of them are actually on Ivy's camera...
DODGE MODELS. Oh yeah.
Then, we finally made our way down to the gated communities, and then we went over to a nearby playground near the back of the neighborhood. There, we decided to take a group picture before we went and surprised you with all our "Happy Birthday" goodies and stuff.
...At this point, we were all pumped up to come see you and say "Happy Birthday!"
However, after walking up to two different houses (luckily, with nobody home), we had realized that we were in the WRONG neighborhood!
Hahaha, oh gosh, you could imagine how embarrassed we were! So, we called up Angela on the phone, asked her where the actual house was, and then found our way to your gated community. It was then we walked through the gates, felt bad because we had been in the wrong place the entire time, but soon got over it because we had finally reached your house and saw your beautiful, darling, 16-YEAR-OLD self (;
Oh how we love you, dear Natalie.
And all the trouble we went through just to see you have a happy birthday. <3
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