5/22/08 - Visit to Nashville

Jocelyn and I went to Nashville to visit Nanny Natalie and Patrik. We had a great time swimming and just catching up for the day. I wish Natalie and I lived even closer than nashville and had even more time to be together.

Pigtails - 5/19/08

Today was an exciting day. I was able to put Jocelyns hair in cute little pigtails. I was so excited, she looked so cute!

Jocelyn's new favorite thing is carrying around her little Dora lunchbag.
She must think it is a little purse. She's definitely a girl!


Of course, there is always enough love for Dora!

Mothers Day 2008

Well, my 2nd Mothers Day has arrived and it was a great day! Jocelyn was so loving towards me....you would think she actually knew that today was a special day. Jeffry was out of town getting ready for his 2 week mission trip to China and didnt get home until later that evening, so it truly was me and my girl most of the day. Her daddy did get home in time from them to take me to my favorite resturante...Wasabi's. I was so blessed, Joc's nursery class helped her make me the sweetest Mothers Day card. I'm sure it is just the beginning of my collection of home made cards from my little sweetie.

She was giving mommy lovin here. I love it when she does that!

Showing off her pretty linen lady busy outfit she wore.

Singing "I love you, You love me, We're a happy family,..."

Well, you know the rest of the song. It's so fun looking back. Of course, Christy and I had to get our anual Mother's Day photo together. You can see below this picture I attached our photo from last year when Jocelyn was only 6 days old. Now, Christy is 7 months pregnant with her 2nd baby boy, Jocelyn is 1, and Michael is 17 months. And might I add that I'm looking much better than I did last year. ;-) Gosh, time flies by!
This day was definitely better sweet. Jocelyn and I had to say goodbye to sweet Vanessa. She was Jocelyn's first at home babysitter and she has been such a blessing to us. Both Christine & Vanessa were the first to watch Jocelyn in the nursery at church. I couldnt have turned her over to more precious girls. They made it so easy for me. Christy & I had so much fun last week hanging out with Christine (who already left us in January, but was back to help Christy out for a week) and Vanessa. Now they both have graduated from grad school at UT and are heading off to start in new jobs. The friendships that we have found in them are very special, not to mention Michael & Jocelyn love them dearly.
We will miss you guys!
Mtn Ridge gave the prettiest flowers out to the moms on Mothers day. Jocelyn is trying her hardest to stay flower, but in the meantime we taught her that they smell so pretty. She would put to nose up to them to smell them. It was so cute!

More Birthday Cake!

Since Jocelyn had her actual birthday party a few days before her birthday we decided it would be fun to have a cake for Jocelyn to dig into at Paradox (our youth service) for all the kids to enjoy. Especially since so many of them have been such a big part of Jocelyn's life this year. So once again, she was sang to and actually blew out her candle this time. You would think she'd be a pro at this by now.

Want some?

She got a BIG chunk!
It was fun until her cute little hat fell forward and she couldnt see.
It was quite funny.
What a mess!
It definitely was fun though!

Fun Day Out - 5/12/08

We always manage to find some trouble to get into on Jeffry's day off. We can easily spend quite a while in our mall showing Jocelyn all of the fun things that there are to see.

Hanging out again in the play area in the mall.
Obviously, she liked the pig...she had to give it some lovin'. ;-) Only in our mall can you find huge stuffed bears sitting on benches. Apparently, they are giving this bear away in a drawing. Not sure I would want to win this huge thing, but Jocelyn sure liked it. Not intimidated by it at all!
She was trying to feed it her cracker.

Happy Birthday to Jocelyn!!!

Well, it's finally here. Jocelyn is the big 1. Some would say offically a toddler! Hard to believe I have a toddler! Daddy had to go out of town today, so it's just Jocelyn and mommy. So we decided to enjoy one last outing with sweet Nicole. We went to the park and enjoyed the BEAUTIFUL weather!

Jocelyn discovered how fun it is to play in the rocks. If this is a fore-shadowing of how many fun she is going to have playing in the sand at the beach, I cant wait! Needless to say, she didnt want to be pulled away from her new found love...rocks. ;-)