Where the heck is Derby, Kansas?

My sister lives in Derby just outside Wichita and I went there with Jocelyn for 10 days.  We had a blast.  It was low key for the most part (I read 4 books but I got to meet the author of one of the books, Heather Cashman and she signed my book which was so COOL!) but it was very nice.  Here are some of the other things we did. 

We went to the zoo.

 We got there just in time to see the elephants do their tricks.



It was so cool to see the gorillas so up close and personal. 

This giraffe has figured how to get down in the moat so it can get really close to the fence.  Awesome.

We went to several activities for a program called Parents as Teachers.  We had a little Halloween shin dig, Cookie Bookie, where a book is read, a craft is made, and a cookie is decorated, and then we went to Music and Movement.  I wish we had something like that here.

The girls played together.  Jocelyn didn't take to well to her cousin, Ivy.  She would cry anytime Ivy screamed and we think Ivy started to figure that out.  They would play nice sometimes but for the most part we kept the two youngest away from each other.  Jocey did like her older cousins and they were really sweet to her.  Here is a picture where Ivy and Jocey are both happy.



And here are Ivy and Jocey in their cute Halloween pjs grandma sent.

And most importantly, we celebrated my sister's birthday.  We went out to lunch to Applebees and did cheese fondue for dinner.  YUMMY! And we add a Thin Mint Ice-Cream cake.  EXTRA YUMMY!!

Jenn's mouth is already watering. 

Jocelyn approved of the cake.

We also went shopping, we went to a chili cook off, we watched all 3 of the Twilight movies, I went to Book Club, we ate amazing homemade meals (thanks Jenn!), and played.  It went by too fast but I'm glad I went and I'm already thinking of when I can make another visit.