Birthday Girl - Maci is 6!!

It is that time of year again! No, not Christmas.......Birthdays! Both Maci and Bryce's birthdays are this month (the 13th and 15th). Maci's birthday is tomorrow, but we had her party last week. She wanted a makeup/dress up party and so that is what she got. I read a cute idea online for dress up parties that suggested getting real jewelry from thrift stores. So, I hit a couple of them and bought purses, rings, clip on earrings, bracelets, watches, necklaces, lip gloss, and nail polish for all of the girls. Don't worry the lip gloss and nail polish were from Target! Let me tell you, it was a bit hit! They also got their nails done (with press on fingernails) and made their own glitter make up. Then it was dress up, dancing, and singing the rest of the night! She was also spoiled by her Grandma's. She got the cute outfit she is wearing in the picture below from Grandma Brenda. The new bedding is from both Grandma Robin and also Mommy and Daddy. I'm not sure if all of the pink and bling scream "Princess" or "Diva!"

Aubree's Baby Blessing

We had all of The Zollinger family in town for Thanksgiving and thought it was the perfect time to have Aubree's baby blessing. I can't believe I didn't get any pictures. I feel like I say that way too often on this blog. I need to be better at taking pictures of my kids. Here are the only two pictures I took of her that day. And she is crying in one of them!

Maci's first month of kindergarten

I realize Christmas is almost here, but I still want to post some of these pictures I took at different times during Maci's first month of Kindergarten.

She participated in Fun Run Boosterthon. I did attempt to take some pictures of her in action, but since she was running they turned out blurry (duh)! Luckily I snagged a few with some of her friends. We also have been to a few of her school assemblies. They have one every Friday and anyone is welcome. For the first 2 months of school the kindergarten classes all sang a song together at these assemblies. The songs were about whatever color they were practicing that week and they were supposed to wear the color to the assembly. Here are her yellow and green clothes. We also went along on her first field trip that was supposed to be to a pumpkin patch. However, it was raining that day and so they didn't get to play at the pumpkin patch. They did get to do a bunch of activities inside the church where the pumpkin patch was at. We have also been able to eat lunch with Maci a handful of times. Bryce loves this because he buys a lunch alongside Maci. He gets to stand in line with her and choose what he wants to eat.I just LOVE that Maci LOVES school!!!!