Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all of our friends and family. Here are a few of the pictures we took trying to get a good one for the Christmas card......it's a lot harder than you think to get a 2 1/2 year old to smile for the camera. Actually just look at the camera - we gave up on smiling.

It was a lot of fun and we got a lot of great pictures of Abby.

We hope that you have a very Merry Christmas and you experience and grow in the love of Jesus Christ this year. Abby is excited to make Jesus a birthday cake!

Santa Claus

We had "Breakfast with Santa" earlier this month. I thought Abby was going to do okay with visiting with Santa. That is until the boy in front of us starting crying. Then it was our turn, and Abby didn't want to have anything to do with that strange bearded man. Oh well - family photos with Santa are just as fun as individual photos.

We ask Abby what she wants for Christmas, and she tells us she wants a baby. It took a while, but we finally figured out that she wants a baby doll and not the baby in Mommy's tummy. We can definitely do that for Christmas!

It's a .....

.....GIRL! We found out in November that Abby will be getting a little sister. We are so very excited! I love that Abby will have a sister - I know that is such a special bond (one that I am very thankful to have) and am thrilled Abby will get to experience that. We also have her name picked out already - Madeline Faith Reinhard.