2012 in review-January

This past year was a big one for our family.  Since I did so terribly blogging, I thought I would review the past year and what I missed!  Here's some highlights of January.

 We arrived in Germany about 5 days before Christmas (this is a little of December too).  So we were able to hit a few of the Christmas markets.


We spent Christmas eve in Heidelberg with some friends that we had known in Georgia-the Gillespie's.


Christmas in the hotel.


We were livin' it up in the Mainz Hilton hotel.  The novelty actually wore off after about a week.  This is the kids in the elevator on the way to go to school.  There were a few times as I was herding the kids down to breakfast and out to the car at 7 am, that I wondered what we had done!

 The kids started school and adjusted beautifully.  Micah was excited that we had moved in in time for him to participate in the school spelling bee.  We were super excited when he won!  Definitely a highlight!

 Room Service:)

 Jude got his first tooth at age 3 1/2 months...many more to follow.

 Micah turned 10.  He celebrated in his usual style.  Out to eat and a homemade ice cream cake.  Does it get any easier?!

We were also able to move into our house in mid January.  It was/is a long process unpacking with a infant but we were so excited to get to know our little village and start adjusting to our new home in Germany!