North Dakota

We took a trip to ND this past weekend to celebrate a late Christmas with Stu's family and meet our new little nephew!

Abbey spent a lot of time practicing the piano.

 Lots of fun with the grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins!

 

 All of the grandkids:

 There he is!  Baby L!

 Mom and Baby:

 

 

Tia Bina, Grandad and Grammy come to town

 One of my dear friends from college came to visit for a few days.  We call her "Tia Bina."  "Tia" is "aunt" in Spanish.  Or Tina Nina as Abbey frequently called her.

Tia Bina visited us in Germany when Abbey was just a few weeks old.  This is one of my favorite pictures of Abbey... I had to take a walk down memory lane.

Growing up...

These pictures were just so sweet, I had to post them tonight! 

 I couldn't decide which was my favorite, so you get them all:

December

Happy New Year!

Pictures from December:

 Hooray for Bumbo!

 Awake...

 Asleep.

 One of our friends in Germany bought Abbey a giraffe coin bank.  She likes to play with it.  I told Abbey the other day that she has to be careful with it, because Miss Elisa from Germany gave it to her.  So she collected one of her "girls" (Playmobil characters) and set up a Miss Elisa to play with her.

 Showing off her mad rolling over skills:

 Playing the Kinect... 

Cotton-candy flavored dum-dum sucker dipped in mustard.