School pics

Below are Bella's first year of preschool photos. We can't get over how grown she looks. She is not our little baby anymore. I apologize now for the quality but they are pictures of pictures taken with a cell phone. 

Getting ready

For the last couple weeks Bella has been getting ready for Halloween. She got manicures...

 painted a pumpkin...

 which turned into Minnie Mouse

 and she went to Sea World's Spooktacular 

 Sesame Street's Countdown to Halloween show 

Legoland

We checked out Legoland this weekend with our neighbor friends. The month of September is Hero's month so Joe and I got in for free because we are both first responders. Its a pretty good size park made just for kids. They also offer a water park in the back of the park for an additional $15 which we checked out as well. Besides the fact that it was way to hot out, it was a great day!

 Bella and Joe shooting water at Cam and Ryan as they rode by

 Checking out the Safari 

 learning to drive

 she needs a lot more practice

 Joe in his element

 Lazy river, Bella was hoarding all the blocks

 Baby Jackson got in on the fun in the wave pool

 legos were everywhere 

 cooling off with some popsicles 

 topped the day off with a pizza dinner date

Happy Birthday Grandma

We celebrated Grandma Janis' birthday the last week of July when Uncle Stan and Aunt Joan were in town. We had a great Italian dinner at the Dolphin Hotel on Disney's Boardwalk. After dinner we took a short boat ride to the boardwalk and did a little shopping. 

 sorry, i know its blurry

Open House & First Day

I'm a little behind on posting pics. Bella started preschool August 12th. So far so good. She goes 2 days a week, Monday and Wednesday's and really seems to like it. She is excited to go and doesn't even care to say goodbye to her mommy and daddy in the morning when we drop her off. I guess that is a good thing and makes it easier on us :) 

They held open house on August 9th so here she is meeting her teacher Ms. Penny

checking out the play dough 

Bells being silly and her friend Cameron 

 First day of school, wearing her new outfit and backpack

 getting a little play time in before school starts

 saying goodbye as they are not in the same class

 When we picked her up this was hanging up

 getting some more play time in after school

 Second day of school. She picked her own outfit out

 teacher had these pics hanging up from their first day. Sorry for the quality, i took a picture of them with my cell phone

We look forward to a fun and exciting school year.

Minion Mayhen

We took Bella to see her first movie in the theater last weekend. We saw Despicable Me 2. She will tell you that she didn't like it but I think she did. She sat through the entire movie, had popcorn, candy and

 sody pop(as she calls it)

Puzzles and Dress Up

Just recently Bella has taken a real liking to playing dress up and doing puzzles. 

A co-worker of mine passed down some of their kid's puzzles and she loves doing them and is very good at them too.

  Madagascar complete :) 

 Nana got her some dresses and high heels for Christmas but they just sat in her closet until now. She has also collected some tutu's and accessories as you can see below

 even Pooh got in on the action with this princess dress