Joslyn's 5th Birthday!

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!

Playing in Sissy's new shoes