Winter Storm

About a week before Christmas, the East coast got hit with a pretty big winter storm.  Snow started falling Friday evening and didn't really stop until Saturday afternoon!  We measured around 15 inches at our house by the time the snow stopped falling.  This was our second big snow storm of the year (we had about a foot in early March) and we were hoping Juliann would be a little more into the snow this time around.  Not so much!  She liked the idea of the snow and kept looking out the window and pointing at it, but things changed once she was actually outside!  Eventually she got a little more comfortable and played with her bucket and shovel in the snow.  Enjoy the pics below from our snow storm!

March 2009

December 2009

David cleaning off his car

playing on the front porch

Holiday Pictures

This weekend was our weekend to get ready for the holidays.  We had big plans: decorate the house, go get a Christmas tree, decorate the tree, visit Santa and order Christmas cards.  Things did not work out as planned on Saturday.  Instead of snow we got lots and lots of rain, which meant no picking out a tree.  And you can't decorate a tree that doesn't exist.  So we decided to get Jules dressed up and go visit Santa.  We've been talking him up this year and she seemed to like him-pointing out any Santa she saw (real, as a decoration around the house and even in books).  We thought it would be a successful trip and a great way to get a photo for our holiday cards.  Boy were we wrong!  She repeated her screaming and crying fit from last year, much to our disappointment.  We left feeling defeated and slightly frustrated, especially since we needed to get our holiday cards created!  Luckily we were able to get a bunch of cute pics of her ourselves here at home and we used a few of them to make and order our Christmas cards for this year (and check a few things off of our to do list for the weekend)!  :)   Enjoy these pictures of our adorable little Santa's helper that we didn't use for the cards (but ignore our fake Charlie Brown looking tree in the background-we got the real one on Sunday)!

Pictures

So I've finally uploaded new pictures to Shutterfly.  It's only taken me about a year!  Take a look using the shutterfly link on the right side of the blog.  Password is the same as before.  Since anyone can see our blog, please email me if you need the password again. 

Thanksgiving

We spent this Thanksgiving holiday with David's family (as well as Peter's fiancee Anne's family) up at Wintergreen.  Although I missed seeing my family, it was a nice change of pace to only pack up the car with all of our stuff once!  We had planned to arrive mid-day Wednesday but thanks to our very independent and slightly defiant daughter, it took us much longer to leave the house.  We stayed through Sunday afternoon and really enjoyed our holiday.  Some of us took a hike Thanksgiving morning and then we all stuffed ourselves silly with delicious food in the afternoon! 

Juliann with Ranger

Family photo overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains

Thanksgiving lunch

Family picture

On Friday, since Anne's family is from Ohio, we headed to Charlottesville.  The Perins went to visit Monticello while David, Jules, Jane and I did a little shopping at Barracks Road!  We had lunch on the corner and then walked around UVa briefly because it was SO cold. 

Rotunda

"Kid" picture in front of the Rotunda

Jules on the lawn

Saturday was the UVa-Tech game, but I was feeling too sick to go so David went with his Dad.  Although the Cavs did well in the first two quarters, I was glad I'd stayed home after their disastrous second half.  Sunday, as we were getting ready to head back to Richmond, Juliann got her hand caught in a recliner David was sitting in.  Her hands got pinched by the metal under where it kicks out and it was not good!  Thank goodness for David's dad-he was calm and knew what to do, whereas David and I were slightly freaking out from all the blood.  Poor Jules was so upset and her little hand was a mess.   I took her to her pediatrician on Monday and then later to a hand surgeon who took X-rays.  She has a slight fracture in one of her fingers and was put on an antibiotic for an infection.  She developed 2 HUGE blisters by Wednesday but is now on the mend and is using her hand with no real problems. 

Juliann's hand on Monday

Her hand by Wednesday

Enjoying the playground despite her injury

We hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends!  We know we are very lucky and have a lot of reasons to be thankful this holiday season.  :)