Kennadee's 6th Birthday part 2

The day after Kennadee's birthday we had a family party for her. She got to have all her Mildenstein cousins, Aunt Diana, Nannies, Grandpa Pete, Great Grandpa Mote, & Uncle Johnny. We had a house full that night. It was really fun. 

 Kennadee's Cake

 Before and after the candles. Once again my camera didn't pick up her blowing them out.

 Mommy & Kennadee with the cake

 The whole gang

 Grandpa Pete eating his cake

 I think Nate enjoyed the cake what do you think?

I still can't believe that my Kennadee is six years old! It has flown by so quickly!! I love that girl so much!!

Happy Birthday Kennadee!!

Kennadee's 6th Birthday Day One

Today is Kennadee's 6th Birthday! I can't believe it has already been six years! I also can't remember what life was like before I had her. She has been such a joy to our family and we are so excited to continue to watch her grow and learn. She is such a fun girl!

Since Kennadee loves Toy Story 3 so much and since she loves loves loves her Jessie Doll I decided to make these fun little "Jessie Hat" cookies to take to her class for her birthday. They were really fun to make and the kids loved them and recognized them as Jessie hats right away.

 My Mom and I went to have lunch with Kennadee at school today. We decided to bring Hannah and Nate as a fun surprise and to get them out of the house since they have been cooped up for the last couple weeks. Kennadee was so excited to see them at her school!!

 After lunch we brought the cookies to her class to share with the other kids. They sang Happy Birthday to her and then they chowed down. It was fun to be there for her first in school birthday!

 After school we let Kennadee open her presents. She was so excited to see everything she got. The big bling blue ring on her finger is from her friend Alexis in her class.

 Opening Presents from Grandma Eldredge. She got a diary, sticker book, coloring book, and a Barbie movie! (Daddy is so excited... LOL!!)

 Russell and I got her a Woody Doll and a Buzz Lightyear doll to go with her Jessie. She has been asking for them since Christmas and was so excited to finally get them! We also gave her some Toy Story 3 playing cards and some hair clippies.

 My Mom got her a set of Toy Story 3 figurines that I will be using on her cake tomorrow. She was so excited and has been playing with them all evening.

 This year Kennadee will be having a Family Party instead of a Friend party so since my Step-Dad, Grandpa, & my Brother will get here tomorrow we are going to wait until then to have her party. So we decided that she should at least blow out a candle on her birthday so she had an ice cream sundae with a candle!

 My camera was too slow to get her actually blowing out her candle so this is all I got. At least you can still see the smoke! LOL!!

I will post again tomorrow with pics of her actual cake and her party!

Happy Birthday Kennadee!!

We Love You!!

Valentine's Day 2011

The week before Valentine's Day my sister was doing a bunch of fun things for her family for Valentine's week so I stole a few ideas from her.

First we did a "Heart Attack" for Kennadee Russell and I put some things we love about her on hearts and stuck them on her door and in her room. She loved it!

 Since Kennadee is in Kindergarten now she got to make a box to take to school for her Valentine's party. She had fun putting stickers on it and coloring it.

 Proud of her work!

I got to go help in Kennadee's class for her party. She ate way too much sugar and wasn't feeling very well.

 Once it was time to pass out Valentine's she was super excited.

 Handing out her Valentine's

 Kennadee and her friend Cayde

 That's one full box of Valentines!!

Kennadee and Mommy!!

R2-D2 Cake

It has become a tradition that I make the cake for my sister's kids' 8th Birthday parties. I did it for Sam and Patience and this year was no different. Gabe turned eight the other day and is having a Star Wars Birthday Party today so I decided to make him an R2-D2 cake. Thanks to Aubria we were able to pull it off!! I seriously couldn't have done it without her!! I forgot to take a picture after I put the final bit of rolled up fondant around the bottom so it doesn't look as finished in the pics but you get the gist! Happy Birthday Gabe!!

Snow Day!!

As you know it is very rare for it to snow in this area of Texas. Last year we got a slight dusting and they closed schools. This week we have had frigid (for Texas) 20 degree temps so we were thrilled to find out that it was going to snow last night so Kennadee could have the day off of school and Russ and I could have the day off work (I am a school crossing guard if you didn't know that). I awoke to a phone call at 5 a.m. telling us that we didn't have school!! Hooray!! Of course I couldn't go to sleep after that so I patiently waited for them to wake up. When Kennadee got up I heard her jump out of her bed and come running down. "Mom did you see that is SNOWED???" She was so excited and was talking a million miles a minute about how cool it was and how she hoped it would have been more snow but she was still happy about it. You would have thought it was Christmas morning all over again. She asked if we could go play in it so we bundled up and went out. We tried to make a snowman but it's really powdery so it wouldn't hold. We wrote her name in the snow and then she played around scraping off the cars and stuff. And then we came in and had some yummy Hot Chocolate. It was really fun!! Here are some pics.

 Front Yard

 Back Yard

 Rudy in the snow

 Kennadee so excited for the snow!

 Hot Chocolate! Yum!

Hot Chocolate Mustache

Awards Assembly

Kennadee was recognized in their 1st Semester Awards Assembly today. It was really fun to see her get an award!

 She received the Goal Setting Award!

Good Job Kennadee we are so proud of you! Keep up the good work!!

New Hair

When Johnathan was here he also did my hair. He colored it red and then he cut about 10 inches or so off my hair. It was so long and dead I just needed a fresh start. I would have gone even shorter but my hubby would have been really upset.