Drivers Licenses & Makeup

Steph passed her drivers test this morning & so we head to the Revenue Office to get her "offical". Of course I had to stop by the house & scan the permit for scrapbooking first. We get to there & take our #. It wasn't to bad of a wait since they were on 96 & we had pulled 99. 98 wasn't there so we go up to lady in a rude, hateful mood friendly clerk 1. I tell her we are there because Steph passed her drivers test. Not so friendly clerk 1 asks for birth certificate, which I hand her. She then asks for another form of id. I hand her Steph's social securtiy card. She then asks for another form of id w/ her name printed on it, like a health insurance card. I know that the health insurance card is at home, because I'd pulled it out this week to make a copy of & hadn't put it back into my wallet. I am thinking maybe I can find something else w/ her name printed on it. I find the dental insurance card which is the same comp. as the health ins. & also has her name/b-day printed on it. She takes it & looks at it for a while then hands it back to me & in a rude voice that I can not possibly type & you understand says "I need a health ins. card, that is why it's called health." I take all the papers back & tell her that I'd be back in a few min's. We drive back to Lowell from downtown Rogers & I'm thinking all the way home that the health card might have her social on it. NOPE it doesn't! It has the EXACT same printed info of name/b-day that the dental card has. We didn't have to pull a # the second trip in & we ended up w/ truly friendly person, not that anyone could possibly have been more rude & hateful than clerk 1 friendly clerk 2. I state why we are there & she gives Steph a big ol smile & says "Congratulations". And we leave about 10 min's later w/ a girl that can now drive all on her own. Scary!!!! :)

Steph & I were invited to a Mary Kay party makeover tonight & Steph wasn't to keen on this idea, but I made her go. She applied her makeup w/out to many complaints. And wow does that girl have eyelashes. We were all amazed once she got her mascara on.

Sweet 16 Party

Here is a closeup photo of the cake we got from Rick's Bakery in Fayetteville. I wouldn't think to put those colors together, but Steph picked it from their website & I think it turned out good.

Here is the Sweet 16 sign I made from paper mache letters. I spray painted white & glued them together. Everyone signed in colors matching cake & it became a cool keepsake for her. The photo on the left is the very first studio photo of her, the one on right is the most recent studio photo of her. I think this turned out really nice.

She is blowing out those massive sparkler candles. Finally she got them all out.

She couldn't believe she got an iphone. She pulled out the little bag (phone wrapped & tucked in bag) & says "Is there something in this, it's heavy". She pulls out the phone (in box, after she unwrapped it) & asks "Is this for real". She about cried.

Steph is such a great big sister. On the way home from school on Friday she told Logan she would go skate some, then help him, & then skate w/ her friends more & come back & help him. She even pinky promised this to him. She kept the pinky promise too. She helped him & then would go around for a couple laps, slow down by a friend, then help Logan again once she caught up to him. This process was repeated until Logan decided he'd had enough "skating" & exited the ice to remove his skates. She offered this on her own, although it didn't surprise me, because she has always been willing to help out w/ her little brother. Even when she is w/ her friends & at her 16th birthday party.