Birthday Weekend (Part 3)

We finished up Saturday with a little 'Ansley and Asher date' to the park!

This would be Ansley's "get me off of this thing" death grip! (Notice Asher in the background loving every minute!)

Birthday Surprise Weekend!! (Part 2) SKYDIVING

So early Saturday morning the 3 girls loaded into the car and drove to Chester for our skydiving adventure. I think we all had a freak out moment when we drove up! But shortly after we arrived we got to watch a group of jumpers land and I think we were all calmed by discovering that people do this ALL the time and rarely do you ever hear of anything bad happening.

After, literally, a 10 minute training session we were suited up and got ready to fly at 14,000 feet!

Our tandem partners. My partner was at about 3700 jumps and Neely's had 4800...just to give you an idea of how often these people jump!

The boys got there a little later than expected and didn't realize we were in the air until we landed. Here is one of us just as we all touched down. Notice I'm still wearing the cool hat, and Neely is still in the 'slide' position on the ground.

"I'M ALIVE" - what I'm saying in this pic

Ansley and I watching the jumpers who went up after us.

This was truly and amazing experience that I hope to have the opportunity to do again before I die. It was one of those things that had so much anticipation leading up to it, it was over way too soon. So, if anyone reading this would like to go skydiving, I HIGHLY recommend it and would love to go back with you!!

Birthday Surprise Weekend! (Part 1)

Troy told me we were having dinner with his parents Friday night. But when we walked into The Bistro, to my surprise...

He had actually arranged a surprise Birthday dinner for me with great friends!!

This is the amazing gift Neely made me (Ansley)!

MMMMmmm, Strawberry Cheesecake!

Here, Troy is demonstrating Ansley's new dance move for the table!

At dinner I was informed that Neely, Kristen and I would be going skydiving the next day (Saturday)! I mentioned to Troy about a month ago that I would LOVE the opportunity to go skydiving. My only stipulation was that I didn't want to go by myself. Troy was a definite no go, so Kristen and Neely were troopers and went with me!

Like Mama, Like Daughter...

She makes me so proud!!

Nashville!!

Heading to the pool for the first time...

Ansley's first time swimming...she LOVED IT!

Monday we ate lunch at the Aquarium Restaurant. It was the neatest place with this HUGE tank that took up the whole middle of the restaurant and all Ansley wanted to do the whole lunch was look at the fish.

Just testing out some possible birthday present ideas from Grandpa!

Preparing to ride the Carousel that was in the middle of the mall...

...she hated it!

...so did Troy...

Another restaurant with fish!

Getting ready for our nightly swim trip!

Just look at that face to get her opinion on the big horses...

Downtown Nashville!

We went to the Nashville Zoo on Tuesday and had the best time. There was a lot of walking but Ansley loved every minute!

We had such a good trip with Troy's parents. I had concerns about how Ansley would handle being in the car for 8 hours but it turns out that when she's got company in the backseat she's totally fine! We appreciate the opportunity to have taken such a neat trip very much!!