Nellie's 6th Birthday!

For  Nellie's 6th birthday she decided to go to Discovery Kingdom, what a lucky birthday girl.  Unfortunately Nellie seems to think that she can still be a little punk on her birthday, we just can't punish her for it.  We had thought that maybe she would want to go to the Tiger show and some of the other shows since she seems to like animals so much, but no, she did NOT want to go to the shows and she made that very clear. So we just did rides that day, which was a little hard because it made for no breaks, but that is Nellie for you.

 Nellie got some money from Grammie and Papi and decided to buy a cute little tiger she named snowy, and she just loves.

 I got the girls a sucker and Lizzy had to do her usual pose.

 I did make the girls go in the Butterfly Garden, where you got to walk around with all these butterflies flying everywhere, it was really cool.

 We gave Russ the rest of Nellie's sucker and he just went to town.  It kept him so entertained it was nice.  He did really good though that day.

 He got so sticky, but it was worth it.  He loved that thing.

 We had a family party the next day.  Nellie was so silly and went and found the crown she got on the last day of school for her summer birthday and put it on.  So cute.

 From Grandma and Grandpa she got a cookbook and cooking stuff.  She was sooo excited.  She wants to be a chef when she grows up and she gets super serious about her cooking.  And she is actually really good!

 I made her this apron.  I procrastinated and had to stay up until midnight the night before sewing it.  But she had already gotten her present from us (an MP3 player) and I really wanted to have something from us for her to open.

 She was really excited about this dress that Aunt Judy gave her.  She does love Hello Kitty.

 Russ enjoyed the birthday cake.

 So for Nellie's birthday cake she wanted Strawberry Shortcake.  She even made her own cake! She made it for her cooking lesson that week.  It was really good!

Here is the birthday girl enjoying her cake.  Nellie does love her sweets.  We love our little Nellie Belle and are so glad she came to our family!