Bencomo Family update

 

It's been a while since we've posted so we thought we'd give you an update on what's going on with us!  

Bella is growing fast.  On December 13th she will be 4 months old! HOLY COW, time does fly! She lights up our life with her huge smiles.  We just know she is going to laugh any day now.  She is enjoying tummy time more and we have a feeling she will be rolling over soon as well.  Her hands are constantly in her mouth so we may be on the brink of teeth.  

As you can tell by the pictures, Bella had a great first Thanksgiving.  The weekend before that, Bella was baptized at our church with all out friends and family present.  Anthony will post those pictures soon.  We are now in full swing of the Christmas season.  Christmas cards, shopping, and parties! UGGH, it never gets easier.  This year we cut back on ALOT of things.  our Christmas cards will be emailed (free and very eco-friendly!) We cut back on buying gifts for the adults on Anthony's side of the family since his family is so large. Instead we took up a collection and Anthony and I are going to stock the Ronald McDonald house with household items like paper towels, toilet paper etc.  We plan on taking Miss. Bella to visit Santa Claus.  Word on the street says the Millenia Mall Santa is the best.  So we will go!  I threw her on some pumpkins for that great pumpkin patch picture, we definitely need the first Santa picture! 

We also plan on getting our Christmas tree this weekend. Our artificial one has gone kaput after 6 years.  The top third doesn't light up and it's huge, we don't have room for it anymore now that we re-arranged the house.  So I think we will get a nice small tree this year for Bella.  Then the day after Christmas we will get an artificial one on sale.  That's the plan at least! 

That's about if for now. Anthony is working hard at Lockheed and I'm still working 3 days a week with clients.  In January I will move to 4 days a week.  Bella has a fantastic babysitter, Shauna, that takes awesome care of her. We are very thankful for her.  

We will post some more pictures this weekend of her baptism and of Bellafest 2008.  In case you don't know Bellafest was the nickname we gave the party that Anthony's mom threw for Bella Thanksgiving weekend.