Kristen has a great group of friends at school. Nicole, Maggie, Sophia (a Swedish exchange student) and Paige (in that order from left to right below). She got to plan her own birthday party and opted to just have fun as a group of five.
They went to Build a Bear and had fun creating their own bears. The much younger kids in the store might have thought these girls were awesome...or crazy.
Paige's bear
From the Flatirons Mall, they drove back to The Orchard shopping center for dinner at Hu Hot (Kristen's favorite).
Maggie (middle) had a violin recital and had to miss the Build a Bear portion of the night. She met the girls at Hu Hot.
Dinner at Hu Hot
Chris and I were at home when all of the girls arrived for birthday cake (followed later by some hot tubbing). Crazily enough, it had started snowing and the snow was coming down like warp speed in Star Wars!
Chris found this birthday topper that lit up and played "Happy Birthday". It was funny until we couldn't get the music to stop. And even when we thought we had the wire clipped and the music stopped, it started playing again from the garbage can!
