On Christmas Eve, David and Abigail and I loaded up on a plane and headed to North Carolina to see my grandparents. Mom, Dad, Tripp and Kara were already there and we were excited for Granny and Grandad to spend some time with their great grand-daughter. On the flight there Abigail was OK. We were at the back of the plane and made the mistake of allowing her to stand on our legs and touch the seat in front of us before those people sat down. Well, clearly she can't do that during the flight because that would drive those poor passengers to the brink of sanity. Unfortunately when they DID sit down, it was a child and woman with a head covering on...bad combination. Abigail wanted to look at the kid and touch the purple head covering. But we made it and were thrilled!
We went to the Christmas Eve service with the whole family and Abigail did great again. She was tired but was totally a trooper. I was so proud. She seemed to most enjoy the music when we were all singing.
We opened some presents on Christmas Eve and then fell into bed exhausted. David and I both woke up the next morning with head colds (that we are currently still feeling the effects of), but we perked up by present time. The funnest part of opening presents with Abigail was the sounds that she would make. She would say, "Oh! Ah!" every time we opened one for her. She definitely acted like she understood that the presents were for her and wanted to play with them immediately. It was such a fun time.
Christmas day was great and relaxing. We took a walk, played with Abigail, and messed with our presents. :) Granny cooked an absolutley delicious Christmas dinner of dressing, ham, chicken and dumplings, butter beans, green beans, fruit salad, pound cake, lemon supreme cake and rolls. We ate ourselves silly (especially since the day after Christmas she also cooked a huge breakfast and then Grandad did the fish fry). We couldn't have had a better trip and we were so thankful for the quality time. Having great grandparents is pretty special and I'm thrilled that we can make sure Abigail spends time with them.
Here are some pictures from the trip...
Looking toward 2014:
It's going to be hard to top 2013 as far as change goes. This year...
1. David finished his AEGD residency
2. Abigail was dedicated at LBC
3. We celebrated Easter as a family of three for the first time
4. David found a job in Little Rock
5. We sold our house in Kansas City, lost the buyer, and sold it again 3 days later.
6. Bought a house in Little Rock.
7. Celebrated our 5th anniversary
8. MOVED!
9. David began work in his new practice
10. Rejoined our home church IBC
11. We both turned 28
12. We got a new niece...Rebekah Caroline Rainwater
13. Abigail turned ONE!
14. David celebrated his 10 year high school reunion
The coming of 2014 is exciting. We're looking forward to our first full year back home. We'll both turn 29 this year and Abigail will turn two. We hope to spend some quality time at the lake this summer and also make a couple trips to Kansas City to see some great friends (we miss y'all a ton!). We would like to take some sort of family trip as well, even if it's a short one...just the three of us. :) It is our hope that we'll have more time to work on the house and we'll be able to go ahead and finish up the painting upstairs (we're so close to having it done!) and begin work on the kitchen. It's an overhaul, so we'll probably pain the cabinets and then do all the rest all at once. I will celebrate my 10 year high school reunion this fall and we'll hopefully travel to some Fayetteville Razorback games. Of course, these are just the things I can safely predict and hope for. There's plenty more that we will do and share I'm sure, and I can't wait for it. :)
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