Christmas 2009

Christmas started this year with a trip to Springfield where Mom made an early Christmas dinner to match our early "Roof" Christmas celebration.  Everything was perfect and the kids (Kaitlyn, Eliza, Andrew, Olivia and Julia) really enjoyed getting an early barage of presents before Santa even had his sleigh loaded.  Pictures of this event are pending (Dad? Can you send some, please?).  After that, Mamaw, Papaw, and Uncle Doug came to visit us at our house, leaving on Christmas Eve.  Julia had another round of present opening and really enjoyed the play kitchen she got from the "Wright" Christmas celebration ( =  On Christmas Eve, we went to the evening mass (where I packed an entire lunchbox of snacks for Julia to keep her occupied) and then home to put cookies out for Santa Claus and put Julia to bed.  Christmas Day we spent opening MORE gifts from the jolly old fat man and playing WII ( =  Finally, on Saturday, Grandma and Pap Pap Roof came to our house to visit and brought Julia even MORE gifts.  It'll be a brutal reality for Julia when she realizes there are no more presents until November 30th of 2010!!

Julia's 2nd Birthday!

Julia had a great 2nd birthday party with her grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and lots of her little friends.  We can't believe we now have a big two-year old instead of our little baby girl!!  Where does the time go?

Fantasy of Trees

After a great Thanksgiving spent with Mamaw, Papaw, and Doug, for the first year ever we were able to get home in time to go to Fantasy of Trees in Knoxville (which is only open during Thanksgiving weekend).  We all had a good time and I'm sure we're going to try to get there next year as well.

First Day of Preschool!!

On Tuesday, Julia started her first day of preschool at Ebenezer Children's Academy.  She'll be going MWF and I will be going back to work on those days ) =  It'll be an adjustment for us both...I miss her already!  This week she went TWF and I have to say, I'm glad that it'll just be every other day, because two days in a row was hard (=

Daddy said to put EVERYTHING back in my toy box...

Happy Halloween!

On the Friday night before Halloween, we took Julia to a park in Farragut to go trick or treating.  She filled up her pumpkin, got to decorate a cookie, and took a bag of popcorn home to eat while she watched Charlie Brown's Great Pumpkin...it was a great night (and since it rained Halloween night, we were SO glad we took her).