Birthday

Today was my birthday! Tonight when I opened my present I got two of the same American Girl crafts! I cant wait to paint the pictures and I cant wait till the 25th when I get to see Taylor Swift!

Taylor Swift Concert

So this does not really deal with American Girl, but I am so excited because today my mom purchased me two pit tickets for the Taylor Swift Red concert in Dallas! This afternoon I got an email that I was selected from Taylor Connect (Taylor Swift fan site) that I was one of the 100 or so to buy tickets for the pit. The regular tickets for the show sold out very soon after they went on sale and I was not able to get them. When I looked at other sites that individual people sold their tickets they were way over price. For the same price to get seats at the very top and farthest away from the stage are going for the same price that I bought my tickets today for. At first my mom was not really wanting to purchase the tickets because A. they cost a lot and B. they only allowed each person to purchase 2 tickets (I need 3-4 to take my sisters and a friend). Eventually she came around letting me get them for my birthday since they are both in May (that was the original plan)! I will probably take my sister who is a senior this year because she is graduating, but I feel bad for my other sister.Taylor Swift's Speak Now tour was on October 6th and both my sisters birthdays are in October (7th and 14th) so I drove us and two of their friends back in 2011. We had tickets that were both far and high but still had a blast, so I cant wait till May 25th!

How this is related to American Girl is that because the tickets were still pretty expensive I will probably not get anything of American Girl for my birthday (except for my doll I already got from my dad). Exactly one month till my birthday!!!!

American Girl Summer Author Tour

Wow! If you look under the special events happening at American Girl on the website you will see that they have added a Summer Author Tour!  Throughout the summer nine American Girl authors will be going to different stores. I am glad Dallas is getting Jessie Haas, but I have already seen Kathleen Ernst. These are the only two as of now that are coming to Dallas. I love seeing authors again, but it is nice when I get to meet new ones for the first time. On the Summer Tour list there are four authors I have not met yet (three after I meet Jessie Haas).This is something that I don’t think they have ever done before. In the past during the summer they try to get a couple of authors to go visit some of the stores but it is usually they book two (usually these authors would only go to a couple of the stores each).

American Girl Summer Author Tour:

-Aubre Andrus

-Dr. Cara Natterson

-Jessie Haas

-Sarah Masters Buckey

-Kathleen Ernst

-Lisa Yee

-Valerie Tripp

-Denise Lewis Patrick

-Jacqueline Dembar Greene

Just Between Friends Event

Today at the Mesquite rodeo Just Between Friends held their semi annual resale event where families tag and price their own items. All they have to do is drop the items off and the volunteers will run the sale. The sale started Thursday so by the time we went today there was a lot of items already sold. My mom and I went to the sale to see about toys for her daycare which we were able to find some that we wanted. I also had an alternate motive for going... looking for American Girl items. Which I was semi successful with! I found a Bitty Baby Christmas dress from several years ago and Bitty Baby crib plus many American Girl books. The crib was over priced to me at $75 and they had two sets of the Kaya book series for $5 per a book which was also to much for me for being used. I ended up getting the Bitty Baby outfit for $6 and a Kit coloring book for $0.50. I was really happy to get home to try the outfit on Jessika and find that the outfit fitted her. It is hard now to buy old American Girl books because I most of them but I will still be on the look out for more items in time to come.

The outfit came with the dress, hat, tights, and a little rocking horse.

Tackling some crazy hair!

This past Monday one of my mom's workers asked if I would fix her daughters dolls hair, but I was about to leave to head back to school. She knew I would be home today so she brought the doll over. At first I thought it would take forever but luckily it was not too bad, but it is the worst hair I have had to brush thus far. The daughter said she wanted Marie Grace's hair in a braid and that was easy enough! When she left to pick up her age sent us a video of her daughter excited about having Marie Grace's hair done!

Every time I see a little girl who has a doll with extreme tangles it makes me appreciate my mom making me wait till I was 8 years old to get mine. Before she bought me the cheaper Walmart/Target dolls to show that I could take care of an American Girl doll. It would have been nice if I did get them younger only for the fact that I would probably have more dolls.

Jessika

Here are pictures of what I bought at American Girl Denver. I am glad that the store still had the Real Me outfit promotion!

American Girl Denver

 My brother being goofy :)

  My mom called my dad to see if he would let me buy a doll for an early birthday present... he said yes!

 I love the lighting

 This is the only Denver shirt... I wish they had more.

 I love these swim suites!

 Meet Jessika!

 Here is the birthday party the workers were setting up for.

Yay I got my 24th doll today! She is my first non Historical or Girl of the Year doll! I named her Jessika after my best friend when I was younger. Since this doll came out I have been wanting to get her for about eight years, but every time I get a doll I pick it because typically she is going to be retired that year. We got to the store 15 minutes before they closed so I was not able to go through out the whole store but it is much smaller then Dallas, and they do not have a party room. This means they have to hold private parties in the front of the store. The staff of the store was very knowledgeable on the products which I appreciate being an older collector (at the Houston store one worker called my Ruthie doll Rebecca). The mall that the store is located at is beautiful and unique!

Spring Break

This is very unexpected, but my family and I are in Denver Colorado! That means we will be going to the American Girl Denver Store! We have been planing to go this week but with the snow storms my mom was worried but instead of going through Kansas we went through New Mexico. Not till yesterday did I even realize that we would be in the same city as an American Girl store I have not shopped at! I brought Samantha and Saige with me to go to the store... usually I bring all of them to new stores for our first visit but are suburban broke down in January and we are borrowing my granddad's mini van because we only have small cars. My sister is a senior and is interested in going to CCU next year, so tomorrow and Friday we are touring the school. We are going to head back home on Sunday. Thankfully I only have school on Tuesday and Thursday, so even if were get back early in the morning on Monday I don't have school like my siblings.

Saige

 My sisters with the baloon

 Me with the baloon

 The beautiful Christmas tree in the middle of the store

 The new swimsuit and bag

 Saige's Pj's (my sister loves these)

 I want this even though I do not have room for it!

 I like this outfit

 Yay! I have Saige!!!

 Me doing the scavenger hunt

 There was an artist to show the girls how to draw a horse and each girl got a sketch book

All the stuff we did while there

Getting Saige today was different then normal my mom is sick so she had to stay home so only my sisters and I went. I only ended up getting Saige and not any of her outfits but I plan on getting some of them and I really want the hot air balloon! Ever since a friend of mine two years ago told me about when she did it and loved it, I have been obsessed. My favorite craft was the horse mosaic because even my youngest sister liked and wanted to do it... usually she just does them because I want her to do them. I also like the sketch pad because it is good quality for being free and has a lot of pages to draw on. I love that they gave away the shirt to the girl who entered! They were not going to give one to us because we were older and not the age rage but when I asked they let us have them. We got 3 and I am going to give one to my cousin along with a sketch pad and poster because she does not live buy a store and she has four American Girl dolls.

What I am excited about for this up coming week is that I am going on a ski trip to New Mexico and that is where Saige is from! I cant wait to take pictures there.