Birthdays - When Jensen woke up he walked into my room and asked very excitedly “Am I three today?” After I said he was he ran down stairs to see his cake. I made him a cake with trucks on it he looked at it very perplexed and said “mom why are there trucks on my cake, that’s silly” and insisted that we take them off. For lunch we went to MacDonald’s and played in the play place. Jensen got some books, some more music and the big hit was a remote control car. He was complete blown away by it, he had never seen one and was so entranced by it. We was laughing hysterically, jumping up and down yelling “I don’t believe, I don’t believe this” for 45 minutes. Siesa was chasing it all over tying to catch it and Derek and I were laughing at Jensen. It was a fun evening. Wednesday it was Siesa’s birthday which was also fun. She liked to open her presents because she loves to rip things and opened some all by her self. Siesa got a sleeping bag, a book and a front facing car seat. She enjoys the new view from her seat. Her cake was in the shape of a one. It was a banana bread cake and she enjoyed eating it and of course making a mess.
The best part of Nashville was of course all the family time. We had some good laughs, card games and discussions, we got no sleep and were sad to leave. Jensen and Siesa had a great time with there cousins. We did some sight seeing. We went to the hermitage, (I still don’t know why it is called that?) Andrew Jackson’s home. The set up was very nice and there was lots to see. We walked all around the grounds seeing the slave quarters, the gardens, looked at the animals, we toured the house and the museum. We were there for almost 3 hours. We also went the Grand Ole Opry hotel. There were 5 huge atriums with a river, waterfalls, trees, flowers, fountains, etc it was beautiful. I was very impressed with how big it was, it was a tropical paradise. We also went to the Parthenon . . . Oh wait, we went to a replica of the Parthenon. It had an art museum inside and was pretty cool and big. One night we left the kids with grandma and grandpa and went out on the town. We went to a dueling piano bar, it was very fun. There were 4 men that all sang, played the piano, and other instruments very well and could sing anything that people requested. We enjoyed all the good music. We went (or should I say Derek and Jensen) swimming almost everyday and a few days twice. Jensen just couldn’t get enough of that pool. Siesa liked it OK but enjoyed sitting on the side with her feet in the water watching. It was a little cold for her. On Sunday we had a birthday party for both Jensen and Siesa. We played a few games, pin the bow on the balloons, sheepy, sheepy come home and a relay race. We made homemade pizza and had cake and ice ream. Jensen and Siesa got spoiled with gifts (thanks everyone).
