Julia's First Birthday Party!

Julia's first birthday party was a lot of fun and our little princess was extremely excited (although probably not entirely sure why). We had a Tinker Bell party and I had fun making her cake and decorating the cabin. We took video of the cake eating mahem, which I will post as soon as I figure out our new camera (= Suffice it to say, her entire face was purple, including the insides of her ears. The dress came off after cake and she spent the rest of the afternoon playing with her cousins and napping...not a bad day for a one year old.

On the nature trail...

Tracy and I thought it would be nice to take the kids on a little hike on a nature trail. They all seemed to enjoy it, especially Andrew who was finally free to let out all of his pent up energy...

Thanksgiving in Gatlinburg...

Since Julia's first birthday fell on the same weekend as Thanksgiving, we decided to rent a cabin in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and have both the Wright and Roof clans join us for both occasions. We had a great time and these are some pictures we took while traipsing around Gatlinburg one evening.

Such a big girl!!

Our little couch potato now has her very own couch to sit on while watching her favorite show of all time...The Backyardigans. Also, since she was so disdainful of sleeping in her crib but slept nicely on the guest bed, we converted her crib to a daybed...and the Wright household has been peaceful all night ever since. We're not sure why the bars so enraged her (it's not like she's walked or crawled any place yet) but we're not asking questions. I guess she just thought a crib was so immature.

Opry Mills with Grandma

On Sunday morning, the "ladies" all decided to head over to Opry Mills to do a little window shopping and entertain Julia (Both Pap Pap and Great Pap Pap were at the Titans game). Julia had a good time looking at all of the fish and animals outside of the rainforest cafe and Grandma took us to lunch at the Aquarium Restaurant before we headed back to Knoxville. The Aquarium Restaurant is really cool and we were lucky enough to see a scuba diver feeding live fishies to an eel while we had lunch ( =

Visit with Grandma and Pap Pap...

On the morning after Halloween, I decided to take Julia to Springfield for a visit with Grandma and Pap Pap to avoid the Football Saturday Extravaganza. We got there in time for a late breakfast and enjoyed spending the day outside in the yard. We also went to dinner that night where Julia discovered she enjoyed Mommy's filet mignon much more than her own chicken ( =