Rachel is 13

Rachel and I went to stay at Kristal's with Grandma to celebrate her 13th birthday.  We had such a great time.  The weather was perfect.  The first day we went shopping most of the day.  It was very successful.  We rode bikes to the beach that evening and got dinner.  The next day we spent the whole day at the beach.  Rachel can stay in the water forever.  We found a fun part of Huntington beach that has a sandbar just a little way out. We had a lot of fun there.  Then we rode bikes around the beach.  We got cheesecake at the cheesecake factory that night.  Rachel loved it. Saturday we were lazy in the morning.  Then Kristal taught us pilates and we went back to our sandbar spot at the beach for a few hours then we drove home. 

Rachel's actual birthday was the Sunday after girls camp.  We had norwegian pancakes for breakfast, spicy thai noodles for dinner and molten lava cakes for dessert.  She got a bocci ball set for a present.  We learned to play with the Smith's in Tahoe and Rachel was the best out of all of us.

For her friend party, she had some girls over for a lateover.  They walked to Starbucks, had pizza and jumped on the trampoline during a downpour.