Christmas 2006 - Chattanooga

This year we celebrated Christmas in Chattanooga at held all of the major festivities at our house since we had already "done Christmas" at Todd's and Mark & Kristin's houses. On Sabbath afternoon we had a big potluck lunch with Jane11's immediate & extended family (parents, brothers, grandma, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc). It was also nice to see Uncle Dan, who flew in from Arkansas and spent several days with us all.

Santa came a day early since Mark and Kristin had to drive back down to Florida on Monday the 25th, so we opened our presents on Sunday. Er!c's parents came up from Jasper, Georgia to join the rest of us for lunch so we had a pretty full house. Tofu had lots of fun exploring through the presents under the tree. She had even more fun playing with the piles of wrapping paper!

Here are some pics of our Christmas celebrations.
Merry Christmas!


Er!c, Jane11, Mark, Kristin & Todd played Rummikub late into the night...











This is our "chimney with care" where we hung our stockings. Santa was so generous that the weighted stockings kept pulling the stocking hangers off the "mantle".




























Woohoo! A new camera!



Jane11 and Er!c open their present from Tofu, MAD GAB.



Tofu enjoys a catnip toy.
Note the puddle of drool on the paper.





Tofu sleeping under the Christmas tree.




Tofu in an Apples To Apples game box.



Tofu in a paper bag with a Santa hat on her head.






...and when it was all over there was a big mess.

Guest Bathroom Project

In preparation for Jane11's parents staying with us, we decided to give our guest bathroom a makeover. Here are some before & after shots...

~ Before ~


~ During ~

~ After~

Weekend With The Folks

Two weekends ago Jane11 and I went down to visit my folks for the weekend. The leaves were absolutely beautiful! Here are some photos from the weekend.





Mom & Dad's new back yard garden


Mom's sun room / greenhouse


Going for a hike in the woods below Mom & Dad's house


Colorful Fall leaves


The Grandparents' duplex / Grandma's greenhouse

Sabbath at Red Clay

On October 7, 2006 after church a group of us headed out to Red Clay State Park for a picnic lunch since it was such a beautiful day! The temperature was almost too cool, but the warm sun made it perfect! We spread out some blankets and relaxed most of the afternoon...

Jane11 and I also took pictures of flowers and bugs...



I was testing out the macro with my new 6 megapixel camera - Check out the detail on those bugs!

For supper, we all got Chinese take-out and went over to Jen and Gill's place and played Apples to Apples. We took Tofu along with us so she and Niko (Jen and Gill's cat) could "play". They spent most of the time just stalking eachother around the appartment sometimes accompanied by a hiss or a growl... :) The first photo below is of Tofu sitting partially on Jane11's head in the car. Jen is looking in through the window.

The last photo was taken Sunday morning. Tofu was sitting in the bedroom window and the lighting was beautiful. I love this picture! I think it's a good photo of our daughter (but then again I might be a little biased).

:)