Refreshing

This weekend has been a bit of fresh air for us and has definitely gotten us in better spirits to take on this upcoming crazy season in our life. Not to mention the current problems that we face, but schedule changes will make it more and more difficult to get family time in and we were so fortunate to have a lot of that this weekend. We revisited a wonderful getaway location (you can check out our last post from Newport Beach in May '08 here) and it was again a wonderful way to unwind. Abby is so much fun right now and she certainly knows how to melt our hearts and make us smile, no matter what issues lie ahead of us!

We started the weekend at the fabulous Fall Party thrown by our friends David and Courtney and I'm sure Courtney will post pics from her beautiful gathering on her blog here. We were glad we stayed in town for the party and head up in the evening to Newport Beach. Abby had such a great time following Isaiah around his house and playing with all of his toys. She often says "Eye", which I've now learned means Isaiah, and she usually says "choo choo" afterwards too since Isaiah has "choo choo's" on the brain!

Once in Newport Beach, we really had a lot of time to just relax and enjoy our little family. The condo had these really great curtains that Abby found extremely fascinating since she could see through them. Watch the short video....she's just cute...

There was a playground close by and she loved climbing, running, and sliding!

I think this was one of Robbie's favorite parts of the whole weekend. He got a lot of really great play time with his daughter. This video is SO adorable and really makes us remember the fun times we had this weekend! (Thank you again Debbie and Steve for helping make this possible!)

And this is just too much...Robbie has taught her to do a little rump shake, shake. Sorry Robbie, Abby's is much cuter!!