American Girl Store

The red carpet to go visit Santa!

Kate thought she died and went to heaven. She loves dolls!

Kate and her baby at the party

Kaelyn and Kate with their babies

Lauren and her baby

Hannah

The loot!

Kelsey and Paige had a little shopping to do, so my mom and I sat out with the kids. They would not leave Hayley alone. Kate kept licking her finger and trying to smooth out H's eyebrows!

We went to the most wonderful birthday party. My cousin McKenna had her 7th birthday at the American Girl store at the Grove. I have been mildly excited about this birthday party for about 5 months now. Originally it was just me going from my family, but it worked out that Paige and Hayley and Kelsey and the girls and Effie were there too! I had no idea what to expect. I tried to excite the girls about it, but I don't think they had any idea. They were so excited when we got there. My aunt was so gracious taking the kids into the party while we shopped. Somehow I got hooked up with a personal shopper, Brenda, who did just that. We would tell her what we wanted and she would go get it. I thought we would have to wait in line, so I sent Kelsey to wait while I went and got all the stuff, but she even allowed us to pay for it there. Kelsey wanted this picnic table so bad and she even took it off and 'on hold' shelf to let her buy it. So much fun. It was the craziest store. Doll stuff everywhere. The girls wanted EVERYTHING. They were lucky that I answered the house phone as I was walking out the door. It was God (Grammie Ross) calling giving each of them 50.00 to spend. I never answer the house phone and for some reason I did! Thank goodness!

It was so awesome to see the girls faces. They were able to pick some things out for themselves and give a little list for Santa. I tell you, I don't know what this store does, but there were people spending money left and right!