I'm SO excited!!!

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 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

Crazy Weather!

In the few weeks we've been here, we have had beautiful weather, sunny and in the 70's, for the most part....until yesterday....we had a blizzard! The news says we got 12 inches of snow, but we actually have close to 20 inches in some areas, like up against the house. This morning when I looked out my bathroom window, the snow was all the way up to the window sill! We played outside in it yesterday for about 30 min, but it was very cold and very windy, so we couldn't stand much more than that. Riley didn't like being out in the snow...between the wind blowing snow in her face and the snow coming up to at least her knees, she spent most of her time standing in the garage watching everyone else! Joslyn enjoyed it but she was cold (we didn't have any snow gear for her to wear). When she came inside, her hands were frozen and she couldn't even feel the heat of the fire on them for awhile. Ben and Taylor had a blast! I sent my time in the garage with Riley and Belle taking pictures :)