Gingerbread houses and Gingerbread cookies

Benjamin and Bella were counting down the days until Christmas break!  Finally we had enough time to make our gingerbread train and house kits!  Bowen enjoyed playing Baby Jesus at the table with the big kids!

Bella's 6th birthday party. "Spa Bella"

Bella finally got her first pet!  A fish which she named Princess.  She's so excited and wants to be a vet when she grows up.

 Bella and I were so excited to find a nail polish pinata!

 Bella invited her cousins, friends from school, church, and the neighbor girls.

 Nail polish shaped cheese sandwiches and cucumber sandwiches.

 I made a cookie cake this year and it was yummy!

 Cucumbers for their eyes....

 Fuzzy house slipper cookies... these were my favorite to make!

 All the girls got little beauty totes to put their goodies in.  Nail polish, lip gloss, tissues, flip flops, cookies, homemade foot scrub, and shower loofah.  I added little chalkboard labels for the girls' names.

 Jacky and Brandon helped paint nails....

 busy making their foot scrub...

 beauty mask...

 Aunt Val in charge of mixing up the sugar cookie foot scrub...

 getting a foot soak...

 soaking in the pampering! :)

 Enjoying the spa food...

I cannot believe you are SIX Bella!  That just seems impossible to me!  You should maybe still be only 4.  Haha!  You are such a sweet and caring girl.  Extremely creative and love learning!  You love to come up with ideas and execute them!  You are endlessly sweet to Bowen loving watching him grow and learn things.  You are patient most of the time with Benjamin.  You guys love to play board games, wrestle, make forts, have sleepovers, paint, and have pizza and movie nights together.   Bella, you are a leader in your class and a star pupil!  You love buying lunch and your special classes.  Some of your favorite things are coloring, drawing, creating, reading books, baking, barbies, my little ponies, sleepovers with Sophie and Porter, playing with friends, crafts, going to places like the zoo, WOF and OOF, Gigi and Papa's house, Paradise Park, the library, grocery store, Hobby Lobby, and the gym.  Every night you tell me you love me the most but I love you more than I can describe!  I'm so blessed to be your mommy and have you in our family!  I love you my sweet sweet girl!

Visiting Santa at Bass Pro

The kids had a blast looking at all the animals, eating dinner, making crafts, and playing games while we waited for our turn to see Santa.  

 Bowen was not a fan!