Birthday Party and others...

We celebrated Sasha's birthday a week earlier than her actual birthday. She had a great time!

Sasha helped us prepare her birthday cake: my Mom's famous "Maria Cake," (made with "Maria" cookies).

Here she is making the lemon juice: (also in the picture are the beautiful flowers James got me for our anniversary-five years!)




Layering cookies:



Spreading the cream mixture: (then it gets refrigerated over night, and then topped with whipped cream and strawberries)



Her party:











Her favorite part, getting ready to blow out the candles:



She helped us serve all the guests:




The next are from Thanksgiving with James' aunt Adrienne, some time spent with Jane and Brad, and some other random pictures:

Time for a quick update. Sasha is no longer going to school. We took her out for several reasons. We weren't fond of some of the teaching methods, plus Sasha wasn't happy there. She had some good friends, but she was losing interest in school. Maybe we'll find a better school, or perhaps we'll keep her out for a few more years. We don't know yet.
We put her in a ballet class instead and she is really happy! I didn't take a lot of pictures of the class but I did get some sweet, short videos if you want to check them out (click on Videos of Sasha on the right).
We visited with our friends Jane, Brad and Federico again and there are a few pictures of that fun outing. There are also some pictures of Sasha's baha'i children's class, as well as of a parent's day at Sasha's school from several days ago. (We got to go in and let our kids show us the work the usually love to work on).