We had a fun Easter weekend. It started out with a trip for Taylor (and her youth group) to Oklahoma City for a night of laser tag on Friday. They had the entire place rented out from 11 pm-5 am! She had a blast. While she was there, I spent the evening at a scrapbooking party. It was my first time to scrapbook (even though I've wanted to do it for many years now), and after being there for 6 hrs, I only completed 1 page! On Sat I took Joslyn to a kid's craft party where she made a picture frame. She had a great time. After naps that day, the kids got to open some Easter goodies from family, and then we made cookies together (Joslyn's been begging to make something with dough like Barney does on one of his movies) :) Today, we had a great sermon at church. After talking about Easter this week at home and at church, when I asked Joslyn this morning to tell Ben about Easter she said, "it's when the Easter Bunny brings us candy and also when Jesus died on the cross and then went to heaven to take our sins with him" :) It turned out to be a rainy day (only the second time it's rained the whole time we've been here), which caused the church Easter egg hunt to get canceled, so Taylor and I hid eggs while the girls napped after church, and then we had our own hunt. Riley really enjoyed it and ended up with more eggs than Joslyn. Tonight we will have our family dinner together. We typically spend the day at GG's house, so I decided to fix all the same foods that we typically have there, plus a few extras! We miss you all and hope you have a wonderful Easter! 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 "..that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.."
As you all read a few posts back, I had a very disappointing cake experience on my birthday. Earlier this week, my friend Amy told me to be expecting a late birthday gift in the mail. I received the package today, and you'll never guess what it was...........a personal size cake from Sweet and Sassy, my FAVORITE bakery in the whole world!!!! She felt so bad about my horrible birthday cake, and she heard from a friend that you can ship a cake by freezing it first and mailing it frozen, so she decided to try it! As you can see it made it in one piece, with the icing intact, and it tastes very fresh. After a few bites, I decided to save the rest for tonight after dinner, so I hid it since my little ones enjoy icing as much as me and there isn't much to go around (it's pretty bad that I get so excited over a cake huh?)! Anyway, THANK YOU Amy! You made my day! That was very thoughtful of you!
Joslyn's birthday is actually on Monday, but we celebrated over the weekend. We typically have a party with our whole family, all of my best friends, and a few friends of Joslyn's at our house. I have been trying to prepare Joslyn for the fact that none of the typical people will be able to come to her party this year since we live far away now. She was disappointed at first, but then she asked if a friend from church and the girls across the street could come instead. It's a good thing little kids are pretty easy to please :) She was just as happy with this party as she would have been with her normal party (although she would have loved for EVERYONE to be here). The little girls across the street, ages 6 and 10, are the first people we met in our neighborhood. They are always outside riding their bikes in the road alone with no parent in sight :) The girl at church that she invited is 10 yrs old and belongs to the lady Ben works with named Teresa. We have been visiting their church. She also has a daughter Taylor's age, so we invited their crew to come over for cake and ice cream today, along with the girls across the street. Joslyn was so excited when they showed up (we didn't tell her they were coming). I tried to post pictures of Joslyn opening the gifts all of you sent. Thank you...she liked them all. You can tell in the pictures her favorite gifts were the princess drawing booklet (it has paint and scissors and glitter), and the barbie; who would have guessed! We also wanted to go somewhere fun for Joslyn's birthday to make up for the lack of her fun party, so yesterday we took the girls to Garden City, which is an hour away, and we went to the zoo. It was smaller than the Nashville zoo, but it was nice. The weather was warm and sunny....however, there was a wind advisory out all day.....and the wind blew SO hard that it made us all freeze and practically blew us away. It made the day a little less enjoyable than it could have been. We still had a good time but decided we need to go again on a more pleasant day. I got a starbucks drink and a visit to Target out of the trip, so the wind was worth it to me!! We missed all of you today...GG, Grandmother, Aunt Tracey and girls, Nanny, Jamie, Aunt Sonya, Dvonne, Amy, Elly, Piper, Hannah, Michelle, Grandaddy and Grandmamma!
