...and a happy New Year!

We have started this new year off with a bang! On December 29th, Wayne loaded up our minivan (and I mean loaded!) and headed down to Texas. Two days later, Addie and I followed (only we flew!). We are now once again residents of Dallas, Texas. We will spend the next 8 months here (with a few trips here and there) before leaving for France in September (Lord willing!). We are getting settled into our new home which we are sharing with our good friends Dan and Cyndi and their two dogs Duke and Daisy. Addie loves all the space she has now compared to our little apartment, and has also fallen in love with the dogs! She wanders around all day after them "woofing" at them and giving them other various instructions (I assume, I still can't understand 99% of what comes out of her mouth). We are still very much in transition mode and apologize for the lack of blogging recently. We will do better! In the meantime, here are a couple of pictures to show you what we have been up to.

Like I said, the van was packed!

Here is Addie thinking "maybe if I just climb over the barrier I can get to mom and whatever she's trying to keep me from!"