This year, our sweet Meggie turned 17. It kinda happened with "a bang and a whimper" as lots of changes were happening around our household at the same time. But girlfriend did clear her birthday with a Macbook (my old one that I revamped for her when I got a new one) annnd we tuned up my old car for when she gets her driver's license. So, a computer and a car! Can't complain too much on that one, right? Oh, and a berry chantilly cake from work, because that's just mandatory. ;)
Meghan is turning into such a wonderful little lady (though it seems some days like she's trying really hard not to! ;P). She seems to be everyone's Big Sister, not just to the littles!, and always likes to help us out with dinner -- there are some weeks I don't know how we'd make it without her helping in the kitchen so much! She's working on getting her driver's license and deciding exactly what she wants to do with her schooling/career/life after that happens, but she obviously has to get through styling our family's Halloween first, you know. ;) She never slows down when it comes to learning new things about hair color, make-up, and special effects, and she seems to have enough product to style an entire season of RuPaul's Drag Race! She always manages to make me laugh with the most random sound effects (at the most random times!) and does the cutest little shoulder-shake when she hears a song that she likes. Her Da was really excited when she liked "The Professional" when he showed it to her this year, but we couldn't get her to watch "The Lego Movie" with us to save our lives because she's way too cool for that, right? #teenagers She has me listed in her phone as "Wendy Bird," which almost made me cry the other day!, and will voluntarily eat salads now. I mean, woah. :D
It took the two of us a hot minute to decide what we wanted to do for our Meggie Birthday Date this year, but we finally settled on Adventure Landing! We played a few rounds of mini-golf (some holes-in-one were had!) and eventually made it inside to the arcade, which was a blaaast. We discovered our mutual love of air-hockey and skee-ball (YAS) and played a few other games before ending up at Monster Yogurt. Boy, they had a green apple sorbet that is YUMMM. It was so much fun!
She got a hole-in-one on this one!
I, MYSELF, got a hole-in-one on this bumpy guy!
The mighty air-hockey table... I'd almost forgotten about you! (Meg beat me both games we played, but it was really close!)
300 tickets worth of spoils, ya'll.
Thanks forever for being you, sweet girl. We love you so much and appreciate every little thing you do for our family. ;) This year has been so exciting, and next year is going to be even crazier exciting! But if one thing's certain, you can always count on being able to come home to us so we can watch stupid things with you and eat Cheez-Its and cookies, because honestly what's better than that?
