An Abi Valentine…

Since her day was unique all on it’s own!  What a beauty she is to us!  Such a beautiful portrait of LOVE!

Oh those Grandmas!  Both Mimi and Nanny gave Abi various types of window clings.  Her bedroom window is really decked out in all things Valentine!  (PS – she’s SO into bows)

Her Valentine Crown from Mimi and Grandpa Zo

New tradition that we decided to start with Jenny and Brian and Josh!  They SO blew us away with their creativity!  One of the envelopes from Josh!

Check out this crazy-cool necklace from Aunt Jenny!  Abi’s in love.

 

Crazy ball-paddle thing.  What’s the name?  I’ve hit myself more than once…

Playing with Oslo’s Valentine gift (we love him so) and Abi’s groovy new purple crocs from Nanny and Grandpa!

 

Loving on her new pablo from Josh

Abi’s Austin Valentines

Baby girl’s harmonica…it’s hilarious to watch her play this…quite slobbery.

And would she be the child of two aggies without an Abi-nalgene?

 

How she ended her day – reading her favorite book – her bible.  No, I am not kidding.

Austin-bound

Last week, Abi and I loaded up and headed down to Austin to spend a day or two with Chris, Jen, Brett & Benjamin!  We were excited to see their new house in Austin – and cousin time is always so fun!  It is good to have family memories.

Our 7 AM start, still a bit sleepy, I think.  (Do you like her milk mustache?!)

 

Ahhh, the lake.  Our dear, good friend.  Waiting for our gas tank to fill…

The Little Czech Bakery on I-35 right before you hit Waco.  A must-have!  Plus, it’s good to stretch a baby’s legs!

Want to know how to have a successful car trip with a 19-month old?  Wonder no longer…

We made it!  Fun times with Brett & Benjamin!

Our daddy is so wonderful.  He was glad to have us home and we were so glad to see him!  We missed him so so much!

This girl loves her daddy.  (PS – as much as we tried to have abi call donald “poppa” it has officially become daddy.  Not sure what to attribute it to, but we’re embracing it!)

If you were the president of Abi’s world…

Well, then you would get to do things like this:

(Insist on wearing your purple tutu and grabbing non-matching bows)

(and have your cat wear some bows too)

(and decide that any day is a fine day for the birthday hat)

(and melt a momma’s heart)

An afternoon with the Zamzows

We enjoyed having Chris, Jen, and the boys stay the night with us this past week on their way to Kansas City.  Cousins are just so much fun.

Trying to get a good picture of the three of them.  Selfishly and for the grandparents.  Oh, who would have thought that task would be so challenging?!  Brett really tried to wrangle these two crazy 18 month olds.

The best attempt:

Please say Hello to my friend, Gabe

Alas, we do not have any pictures yet of Abi holding Gabe – as she has been battling a cold most of his life…but he sure is a delight!  Check out more of his little life here.

Not-so-recent, but still-so-cute pic of big sis Emmy & Abi: