June 26, 2007

Happy Birthday to my sister, Jordyn and to my brother, Travis! We went to the airport today to pick up Jordyn. Her flight landed early and we were just getting to the airport when she had landed. Luckily, she had her cell phone with her and she called us. Parker was screaming in the car because he's been sick and not feeling well. We couldn't find a place a to park, so I took Parker and off I went to locate Jordyn. I had to check in at AirTran and get a boarding pass. Then I headed to security. The lines were so long. It took me about 1 1/2 hours to get through security and then I rode the train to C concourse and made the hike to gate 10. Can you just imagine me running down the hall with fussy Parker in search of Jordyn? I got to the gate C10 and the agent told me that they didn't have any flights from St. Louis that I must be at the wrong gate. I politely explained that her flight arrived at 1:00 and I had already checked with the AirTran agent and that I was to pick up Jordyn at gate C10 because she was a minor. I finally located her in the holding room. She was watching The Cate in the Hat with a ton of other kids that were waiting.

Jordyn was so sweet and held Parker most of the way back to baggage claim. We got on the train and Parker took to her right away. I forgot to mention that I had to leave Jeremiah and Preston to find a parking spot and we only have one cell phone so we were a little nervous about how we were going to meet up again. Jordyn, Parker and I got of the train and came up the escalator to claim her baggage we saw Jeremiah and Preston standing right there. What a sense of relieve. Jeremiah had already picked up Jordyn's luggage.

We stopped at Publix on the way home to let Jordyn pick out her favorite ice cream to go with her cake. She picked Chocolate Frozen Yogurt. Then we got her some balloons. I made lasagna, salad a baked bread. I made her a special breadstick in the shape of the letter J. After dinner she opened her card to find out that we were having a pool party for her at our friends, the Mixon's. Jordyn went next door to pick up her friend Alexis and then we headed out to the Mixon's to swim. Jordyn, Alexis, Avery, Audrey, Preston, Jeff and Jeremiah had a blast swimming. We sang Happy Birthday and served the Strawberry Shortcake Birthday cake that Jeremiah and I made for her.

Everyone swam for a little bit after they had cake, but then it started to rain! We rushed the kids inside and everyone changed into dry clothes. We headed home and Alexis spent the night with us. What a special day. We are so glad that we got to spend this special day with Jordyn.

Love,
Tracy