Sleepover With Grandma Janice

My parents were out of town so I got to stay at grandma's on Saturday. They took me out to Panda Express for lunch! 

After we got back to their house, Grandma and I baked these smores cookie bars which are my new favorite dessert. We watched cooking channels and hung out. We went over to Brooke's house and played. We made a bed of stuffed animals and pillows and blankets and watched movies. It was super fun. The next day we went to conference and then Brooke came over to Grandma's and hung out. It was super fun. 

We played and watched a movie. We made sugar cookies with pink and teal icing. I love hanging out with Grandma and Brooke. It was the best!

Valentines Day

  

  

Today was the valentines day party at school. I dressed up super cute. I wore my pink jeans and my brand new light blue sparkly love crop top. I also had mom paint my nails black and pink with silver and white hearts. She braided my hair so that it looked like a heart. I looked super valentinesy. 

I also had cute little gifts for my friends. They were jars of gummy bears with a note that said "I'm beary glad you're my friend". My friends loved them! 

I took my mustache valentine box to school too.  I got tons of valentines. I gave out ones with airheads in them. The PTA passed out these HUGE red velvet cupcakes with frosting in the shape of a heart and root beer floats. They were delicious! A bunch of kids took pictures of my hair for the yearbook. Overall it was fun.

My Valentines Box

  

  

This year my mom and I made a moustache valentine box. It was awesome!!! It said "I moustache you to be my valentine".  My entire box was covered in moustache stickers, moustache rhinestones, fake furry moustaches and moustache bottlecaps. It also had cheetah flowers and heart stickers. 

It is my favorite valentine box so far.  A bunch of kids took pictures of it for the yearbook. I can't wait to see what we will come up with next year

Operation Santa

Operation Santa was a project with some of the girls at church.  They had people donate clothes and toys and food. The plan was to give a Christmas to one family ... but we got so much stuff that we did two families!

We sorted all the stuff into bags for the families.  One family had two boys and one girl. The other family had five girls.  Both families got tons of clothes and food. The kids got some toys. It felt great doing this good thing. The kids expressions were so happy. It made me feel so good inside to see that I helped these people. It made me understand the real meaning of Christmas. I want to help even more people next Christmas.

PBJ's

  

We are doing a project where you make 30 PBJ sandwiches on Sunday, and then this family takes them to downtown Dallas and gives them out to the homeless.  This week, dad and Rachel, and the other family assigned this month with us were all out of town .. so me and mom made 60 sandwiches!! 

It feels good to know that you are helping people in need. I feel happy to help other people. I want to do more things that benefit others so I can get that feeling again. I hope to help some more people along the way. So I cannot wait till its our turn to make the sandwiches again.

The Grand Canyon

  

We went to the Grand Canyon when we were in Vegas. It was gigantic!! I was scared because we were up so high. 

I was impressed. It is has tons of weathering there. I learned a whole bunch. Jason and Johnny went out on a ledge. I thought they were going to fall. Jason and I did a wilderness scout thing. It was a great learning experience. I learned the Grand Canyon was made by  a river cutting a path in earths surface and taking away rock away from the walls of the canyon. It was super fun.

Thanksgiving in Las Vegas

This year we celebrated Thanksgiving in LAS VEGAS! It was awesome. Travis, Cyndee, Ally, Jason. and Johnny came from California. We also got to hang out with Marc and Tommy. We went to the Grand Canyon and hung out on the strip. 

The hotel was EXTREMELY high end .. Marc's girlfriend Bridget totally hooked us up!! The beds were extremely bouncy, not that I tried it of course ;). It was called The Hotel at Mandalay Bay. 

Bridget knows everything about Vegas. All the hotels had a theme. The Excalibar was King Arthur's castle. The Luxor was a big pyramid. There was a New York one and my personal favorite Caesar's Palace. It was a Roman theme. Part of Caesar's was the Forum shops. It has a bunch of Roman statues and I knew all of them. 

Me, Lex and mom went to lunch one day at this place called Serendipity. It is amazing!! Their specialty is  frozen chocolate. They have the best sundaes. Lexi got one with fried oreos. I got one with cake and chocolate ice cream. 

Bridget also got us into the shark exhibit. It was really cool. 

We got to hang out with Lexi and do some shopping. We saw this volcano show and it was shooting up fire and sparks. Afterward there happened to be a Ben and Jerry's on the strip. 

On Thanksgiving we went over to Marc's house. Jason and Johnny, Lexi and I  played capture the flag in the back yard.  Jason and Jason won. Thanksgiving dinner was delicious. I can't wait for the next Thanksgiving!

Christmas

  

This is year I had an amazing Christmas!  On Christmas Eve, my grandparents and cousins came over and we had dinner and hung out.  We decorated gingerbread men with these cool stickers and frosting.  After they left, I gave Santa one of my gingerbread cookies and eggnog for his treat.  I also set out some carrots for the reindeer!

For Christmas, I seriously got everything on my list!  One of my favorite presents was My brand new Ipad mini. I love it. I also got some new clothes and a brand new pair of DC's. 

I got some super cute Cutie Pop dolls. They are all based on baking!  I even got Carmel, which is awesome because I didn't even know she came out yet.  She wasn't in any of the stores of on the websites!  Santa rocked that one!!

It was also great having Lexie home. I really missed her. It is going by too fast and I know she's going back to school soon ... that part makes me a little sad!

Gingerbread Houses

Today we went over to the Smith's house. We had breakfast for dinner, which is the best!! 

We decorated gingerbread houses after dinner. My Mom split us into teams. My team was Angie, Brooklyn and I. We had so much fun!!

They kept telling us it wasn't a competition this, but if it was a competition .. WE SO WON!!! Me and Brooklyn have been planning our gingerbread house for weeks! Angie always has cool ideas too, so we make a rockin team!! 

We all had a great time!

Gifts for Teachers

  

For Christmas I gave my two teachers designer clipboards handmade by me. I am pretty proud of this gift! 

We took paper and modge-podged it to the clipboards. We then wrapped ribbon around it and added cute buttons. My teachers were super impressed!

They looked super cool when we were done! Ms. Horne's was mint green and Mrs. Oglesby's was purple. They loved them and use them all the time!!