water park birthday party!

I celebrated my 13th birthday party at Blizzard Beach in Orlando, FL (my most favorite water park). Last weekend, 20 of my favorite friends and I celebrated my 26th birthday (along with our friends Danielle and Big Mac's birthdays) at Lake Lanier Islands, which is a water park about an hour outside of Atlanta. It was by far the most fun birthday party I've had since my first water park party 13 years ago!! :)

We arrived at 10am when it opened and stayed until 5pm. We rode every slide multiple times, raced on slides, flew down the funnel, and played in the water fun house like a bunch of 10-year-olds. It was awesome. I cherish our group of friends so much and am so happy I got to spend the day with so many of them just having the best time acting like kids again. Birthdays are meant for celebrating life and how great it is -- and I am certainly celebrating just that! Here are some pictures from our fun day...


most of our water park group - 21 in all!


the birthday kids - me, big mac (adam) and danielle


my two favorite guys (craig's mustache is fake, by the way)


taking a break in the wave pool for a bit


love our boys


casey and drew were slide partners all day. i think this looks like a 1985 advertisement for the water park


andrew had a good slide technique


everyone is prepared for the fun dunker!


group dunking!


SPLASH!