Every November we start our month off with a bang. Celebrating Bella's birthday! This year, Bella made it to the big 6. On her actual birthday, we went to Hana Japan (like Benny Hana's) with the family and with one friend. As always, it's Donna's daughter and Bella's bestest friend, Alyssa. After our dinner we went home and had an Ice Cream cake that Alyssa, Bella & Lexie picked out. It was cute to see them interact with each other the entire night. They actually ate most of their food too!
On the weekend is when we celebrated Bella's birthday. We had to cancel it the first weekend due to the rain and then we almost had to cancel it again because of the rain but the forecast said "a slight chance of rain."
I highly doubt that Bella will ever ask Daddy to help her with blowing out the candles after he shoved her face into the cupcake....
That slight chance happened a few times during the party and we had to bring the party inside - all 32 people - wet people - sigh! We took advantage of opening presents inside while it was drizzling outside.
Lauren is our amateur photographer in the house. She seems to find a way to my purse to grab the point and shoot. Here are just a few pictures she took when I wasn't looking at her. Pretty good for a 2 year old!
Lauren took Brayden out for a spin during the week. Lexie joined in for some fun too. Good thing Bella wasn't around - otherwise we'd run out of seats. Although this is the Escalade, I don't think it's quite large enough for all of my kids just yet!
I always have a camera ready to take photos - no matter where they are. Then there are those times that I'm a pure scrapbooker and know that I have certain layouts and designs for a page and just need the pictures to go on the page. Hence, the reason for the leave photos - perfect for the fall pages that I want to do. Some people take pictures and then scrapbook them. I take pictures to match with my scrapbooks!
On November 17th, Christian turned 4. I swear he was only born yesterday. We did a small family get together at Chuck E. Cheese's pizza with all of Christian's family, Michelle's sister & boyfriend and Grandpa. It was pretty fun!
Anna's boyfriend, Nick, just signed with the LA Dodgers. He's off to training camp in Arizona (I think) next year. It was pretty exciting to hear the news especially when another major league team was also trying to nab him. Looks like LA gets him though. :)
Last but not least, Thanksgiving ends the month of November. Lexie woke up on Thanksgiving Day and was completely sick. She threw up a few times and we just didn't want to take the chance of having her around Milenko's family and their guests when she wasn't feeling well.
I sent Milenko onto his parent's house with Bella, Lauren and Brayden. They seemed to have had a good time. Lexie and I on the other hand had a perfect Thanksgiving. We snuggled on the couch and I made Top Ramen. We had Martinelli's "champagne" and for desert - Thin Mints. Absolute Heaven! We sat and watched Hairspray and she had a complete smile the entire day.
