Happy Birthday To Me!

My birthday is today....
So far I've gotten Birthday Greetings at least ten times from Cad Bane's Chick, and messages from Endor, Leia, ALLLLLL the Lakehouse sisters, presents from JediKnightGrl and Rex'sgirl, and my family and friends too.  ;)

(those were all sent to my by CBC)  ;)

First off, thank you all SO MUCH for the birthday 'presents' and messages.  ;)  I love you all!!!!!!

Now, I shall share with you all my party, which took place last night.  ;)

First off, my HAIR.  <33333  I got my hair done up all special.  XD  It was a birthday present.  ;)  We shall discuss the process.....
I got my hair cut and colored, with red-copper highlights!!!!  :D

BEFORE 

Just getting started..... 

Coffee!!!!!!!!! 

Just after the hair-washing lady finished with me... 

AFTER!!!!!!  :D  Isn't it gorgeous?  xD  

My Daddy straightened my hair last night, so I could look 'hot' for Orchestra tonight.  XD

Well, that was part of my present.  ;)  On Saturday we began celebrating.  Chibi came over and we got my hair done.  But before that, we went shopping at the 'big' mall in town.  We went to Books-A-Million (I got the Dark Nest Trilogy Star Wars books....) and we went to Toys-R-Us, and also to Rainforest Cafe for lunch.  ;)  I got a free desert and sung to.  XD

At Toys-R-Us I got two action figures. ;)  Season 3 Ahsoka, and Hevy the clone trooper.  ;)

  

Oh my lovely finger in that picture.....XD  My dad did the landscaping....LOL!

Now it's party time. ;)  Last night my grandparents, cousin (Chibi), mom and dad and sister (obviously) and great-grandpa came over for dinner!  :)

My 'party room'.  Chibi and I did the decorations.  ;) It's Wicked themed!!!!!!!

Yay for Black, White, Pink and Green!!!!!  XD  It was really fun, we LOVED doing the decorations, and only were injured a few times.  XD

Now, onto the presents (which I really want to share, so don't think I'm bragging please!  ;) )

Me opening the Vera Bradley stuff from my grandma and grandpa. ;)

That's my Mara Jade Purse.....it will go with the Visions of the Future costume I will be making for Celebration 6.  ;) 

Closeup of my new purse from my grandma.  ;)  It's titled "Safari Sunset".  :D

The laptop case that I got......it also comes with a little cosmetic bag type thing for cords and such (at least that's what I'll use that for. ;) )

Chibi made me this lovely keepsake box....and the sides are decorated beautifully, but for personal reasons I can't post pics of it.  D:  But the top is gorgeous too, huh?  

New book!!!  Grandma gave me the book Emma by Jane Austen for my birthday!!!  SO EXCITED to read this one!!!!!  :D  

 These we just got today.  ;)  My mom got Traitor for herself, and I got the third book in the Dark Nest Trilogy.  ;)  (if you remember, I got one and two on Saturday).  :D

One more present and this post will be /almost/ complete.......
Mara Jade.  my sister got me a Mara Jade Barbie doll for my birthday.  ;)  But she accidentally slipped and told me two days before my party and spent hours crying because she ruined the surprise.  :P  So I got it early!!!!  :D

What?  WHAT???  So I can't be excited over my Mara Jade Barbie and take a thousand and one pictures of her outside and inside and in different outfits????  Fine.  *pouts*  many of these will reappear on DeviantART btw.  ;)

Now I am getting ready to go to Orchestra and have a fun birthday dinner with my Daddy.  ;)
Love you all, and thanks again!!!!!!!!  *hugs*

P.S.  I've got some EPIC posts in the works....so stay tuned!!!!!!  :DDDDD

Wicked!

Oh. My. Gosh.
WICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm in LOVE with Wicked the Musical.  :)  This post is dedicated to Qui, because she helped me greatly in getting into Wicked, and understanding it.  ;)

My friend Maryanna went to see Wicked in one of the performing arts centers a while ago, and after hearing how much my Lakehouse friends loved it, I wanted to go too, but by the time I found out it was coming it was too late.  :P  But Maryanna went and had a great time, and she put the soundtrack of the Wicked music on my iPod, because she said I'd LOVE it.  I did LOOOVE it!!!!!!!  :D 
I'm quite jealous of Maryanna because she got to meet the guy who played Fieryo.  :P  Grrrr Maryanna.  xD

Anyways, so about a week ago I listened to the soundtrack for the first official time before bed, and was surprised at how much I liked it.  I fell asleep listening to it, and woke up singing Defying Gravity.  :P  So begins my newest obsession.  XDD

The next morning, I emailed Qui and asked her to explain to me the plot of the musical, because I was very curious.  I already tried looking it up on Wikipedia, but that only made me all the more confused.  :P
So Qui very kindly explained the plot in simple terms, so I could understand it.  :)  Now all the songs make sense!!  :D  I forwarded that email to my cousin Chibi*Chick, and she bought the album of Wicked songs on iTunes, and now she LOVES Wicked just as much as I do!!!!!! 

We've decided that I am Glinda and she is Elphaba.  :P  We are going to sing a duet for Defying Gravity and What is this Feeling.  It's awesome.  And fun!!!!  We're going to put on a show for when our family visits this summer.  It'll be really fun!!!!

Anyway....here are a few pictures and videos.  :)

I found these various places....most from GoogleImages.  :P  Enjoy!

Look:

There ya go!!!!  :D  That was my Wicked Post.  My favorite character is Elphaba.....extremely closely followed by Glinda.  ;)  Favorite song is....What is this Feeling, followed by Popular and Defying Gravity.....and No Good Deed and No One Mourns the Wicked.....

Thanks everyone for commenting and reading, even though I've been gone for a while. ;)  Oh, and do y'all like my new design?  I made it last night!!!!  :D  I like it...I think it's pretty.  I also made a new blog button, if you all want to use it that'd be great!!  :D

Love,