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Today was Bella’s Birthday!! She is 5 years old!! Where has the time gone.. She has been waiting for her birthday for about 3 months now.. We had a birthday party at the house and it was a bit of everything..First of all, Bella was up all last night barfing and with fever.. She woke up very weak and basically just wanted to sleep.. We let her rest and we woke her up a couple of hours before the party.. when we did, we realized she had a fever and Marco also started complaining that his “eyes” hurt (we have figured out that means he has a headache).. I gave them medine and Bella threw it all up.. at this point it was 5 pm and the guest where arriving in half an hour, we had to decide to either post pone the party of just let everyone come on over..

Finally, the medicine kicked in for both the kids and they were ready to party.. Matt & I had been preparing Bella’s three layer cake since yesterday and we had everything ready for a fun party.. and all this thanks to The American Store, I know sounds silly but in Spain there is no such thing as frosting, pancake mix or oatmeal.. but this online store, based out of Madrid, had everything I needed..

When I sent out the invitations (via email) I stated that whomever wanted to come in costume could do so.. adult or children since “Carnaval” (I will write about that tomorow with pics) was this weekend.. We were going to dress up but with the sickness dilema we didn’t get around to it..

Anyway, the guests started to arrive and no one was dressed up until our neighbors Eugenia and Enrique show up with their two kids all dressed up. They were cows!! It was the best costumes we had ever seen.. (home made) although they were not thrilled to see no other adult dressed up..It was as if we had pulled a prank on them, which we did not…(Sorry, again guys.. although you and the cake where the hit of the party). Some of the kids dressed up, Bella put on her favorite red princess dress (thank you aunt Anamarie) but by the middle of the party decided to put on her pj’s..

Overall, the party and the three layer cake was a big success.