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!