The part of the holidays I usually would rather skip over is December 29th. It often feels like it gets lost in the shuffle of holiday mayhem. This year was different. I celebrated my 29th birthday on the 29th. The girls at work made sure my birthday wasn't forgotten with a great card. And they had fun decorating my birthday cake (which I had the fun of baking and leveling). Justin had flowers delivered to the house while he was at w
ork. And then we went to dinner at Zia's, an amazing Italian restaurant on The Hill. We waited for about an hour, but it was worth it. And Julia had fun entertaining people in the extremely crowded bar/lobby area. I was very glad to have my mom, my brother and his wife join us. It was nice to have the extra time with them.
New Year's Eve we had a few couples over and we played Uno Attack! until it was almost midnight. It was a lot of fun. I was a little bummed that we couldn't make it to Springfield, but we had an early morning on New Year's Day. One of my coworkers brought her two-year-old son, Ben, and Julia had an absolute blast. The next morning, she crawled into bed with us and asked "Where's Ben?"
New Year's day, my parents picked us up at 8:30AM and we drove to Terre Haute, Indiana. We spent the rest of the day with Tim and Abbey. It was a really nice time. Julia enjoyed sleeping in the "hohel". Wednesday morning, we drove to Indianapolis for Tim's deployment ceremony. The 
Indiana National Guard is sending approximately 3,400 to Iraq, part of the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. Julia was given a flag on the way into the ceremony. She was waving it while my sister-in-law was talking to Tim on the cell phone. He said he could see Julia waving her flag, even though we were on the upper deck of the RCA Dome. Julia was so proud. She took the flag for show-and-tell at daycare that week.
Indiana National Guard is sending approximately 3,400 to Iraq, part of the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. Julia was given a flag on the way into the ceremony. She was waving it while my sister-in-law was talking to Tim on the cell phone. He said he could see Julia waving her flag, even though we were on the upper deck of the RCA Dome. Julia was so proud. She took the flag for show-and-tell at daycare that week.Right now, Tim is training in Georgia. In February he will be going to Kuwait for two weeks and then on to Iraq, north of Baghdad. He will be there for nine months. We are looking forward to next Christmas when we can celebrate his return and the end of his service in the national guard. Please pray for his wife, Abbey, who is alone in Terre Haute. And please pray that God will protect my brother and all of our service men and women while overseas.
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