Happy New Year!

After spending Chritmas down in Roanoke, we headed to Andrew's parent's house in Alexandria,VA. They had missed seeing their grandbaby for a whole week, so they were ready to see her again.


Madeline turned 1 month old on New Year's Day. It is amazing how much she is changing already. She can focus on people's faces and she gives us lots of smiles in the mornings after a good night's sleep. She isn't sleeping through the night yet. But, she did go for 6 hours last night! So, we are getting pretty close.


Every year, our college friends get together for New Years. We seemed to have a much smaller crowd this year with the Whited's in India, the Jordan's in Alabama, the Noll's in Japan and the Lookabill's sick. We missed them all very much. But, it was great to hang out with good friends again. I really liked all the girl time we got as the boys play Settlers and other games. That is something I really miss as we have all spread across the globe.


We went to "the Awakening" in DC. Here are all the girls, minus Madeline. She was being fussy and cold.

Here's the group eating dinner together, minus Andrew, because he is taking the picture.

A Happy New Year's kiss for Madeline!

And one from her BFF Kathryn!