A look back at 2009

January -It started out fun! (Dr.)Shea came to Nashville with Christ Temple Choir and she was able to get away from Opryland, and come visit me and see our house. The boys really loved seeing her! Braeden loved wearing his cowboy hat and boots that Grandpa gave him for Christmas. He also liked to try to put the hat on Bennett!
Bennett was 5 months and becoming more fun to "play" with. He really love playing in his entertainer.

 

February -Bennett started on baby food. He really liked it! He also started sitting up on his own, and we had a very warm day the beginning of the month, and our first "snow" of the year at the end of the month. Even though it was only a couple of inches, we built a small snowman!

 

March -The weather started turning quite nice pretty early, so we had several trips to the park and to the zoo. We also had our first small family of 4 vacation to Chattanooga for a couple of days. We went to the aquarium, the discovery center, and did some shopping. It was a great first trip with 2 sweet boys! Bennett also started crawling!

 

April -Since Bennett started crawling, he was into everything, and Braeden was having much more "fun" with him! Easter was a fun time! I took Braeden to the zoo for an Easter egg "hunt".(If anyone has been there, you know there is no hunting. Thousands of eggs are just laying ALL over a huge field!) He had a blast! Bennett has stared eating cheerios and gerber puffs. Gabe also had his abdominal surgery!

 

May -Aunt Natalie graduated nursing school, so we went to West Virginia. We had a blast staying in a hotel room and visiting with family. We also had a chance to hang out with Heath and Hailey. We went on a golf cart ride, went fishing, threw rocks in the creek and went swinging at the park. At home MDO ended and it was warm enough to get the pool out back and go swimming!

 

June -This was our first major family of 4 vacation! We went to Florida to visit Aunt E. We drove all night(the best idea!), and got there ready to swim and play! Aunt E had a pool, Uncle Jake had a pool and a river to fish in and a boat to go out on the ocean, we went to Disney and met Mickey and Minnie Mouse and of course went to the beach. I caught fish in the river and the ocean! It was too fun!! Both boys enjoyed EVERY minute!! They were very well behaved! I'm very blessed to have such a great family!