Sunday, January 17, 2010

Jocelyn's Birthday

This year Jocelyn's birthday (December 27Th) fell on a Sunday. That always puts an unusual twist on celebrating birthdays. Fortunately we had cousins around to make it fill more like a party. Here is the birthday girl prior to church. She had some very creative faces she was pulling for some of the photos but her is here somewhat normal Jocey smile.
Since it was Sunday we really didn't do much. I meant to take photos of her at least playing with her cousins or going on the walk we took but I forgot. Her she is right before dinner. I let her pick dinner....well... I actually sort of guided her but chili and corn bread is a favorite or hers so I didn't have to convince her much. We had pink plates to eat dinner on and pink butterfly plates for cake. Her favorite color is pink.
Her dad giving her a birthday kiss. She adores her dad.
Jocey wanted a ballerina cake. She described to me in detail of what she wanted. It was intense. I took her idea and changed it a little bit or maybe a lot to make it make a little more feasible and less time consuming. She was very happy with the end product and it took me a lot less time than her creation. Everyone was happy.

Our birthday girl getting ready to make a wish.

By the time we finished with dinner, cake, ice cream and phone calls from family, it was getting late. We still hadn't opened presents so we had everyone get in their pajamas before we opened presents. I guess it's kind of cruel thing to have a child open their presents and then say" now get in bed", but essentially that's what we did.

Jocelyn wanted a princess bike that had streamers on it. With the help of Grandma Larnajeano and Grandpa Big Daddy, we were able to make that dream come true. As an added bonus it also came with a helmet (Snow White) and a bell. The bike already came with a bell so now she has two bells and dad put them both on the bike. I guess we'll always know where Jocelyn is.
Before we shipped our happy crew to bed we took a picture. Jocelyn was I think in her 5th costume change of the day. We have from left to right, Jocelyn, McKenzie, Saren, Kirsten, Jackson, Kelsey and Anja ( but you can call her Taylor Swift she told us because a lot of people thinks she looks like her:) What a character that girl is. Thanks for the cousins in making Jocey boos big day fun!!!!

2 comments:

Stephers said...

What a little princess. She is girls through and through! Love it.

The Sweet Petes said...

I love how you did Jocie's cake; I think I am going to have to steal that idea one of these days!