We are back in Abu Dhabi for year 2! We hope it goes as well as year 1. Andy was laid off from his job prior to us coming home, so we hope he finds something so we can continue to pay off our house(our goal....that is a big reason why we are here) We want to be able to enjoy our house and as you know, with a new home, comes a 30 year mortgage....we dont want that. So...we are sacrificing our family in the states to make our lives better in the future. We made great strides this past year and hope that year two is twice as good! :) We are happy here, safe and have settled well. Enjoy the pictures from our summer home...we have tons more I will add later. The kids had ample time with all their grandparents, of course they loved the farm the most, due to all the different things they could do and they could really be unsupervised, which is what they really missed this passed year(so did I!) I had to watch their every move here with the traffic so close by. Rylan enjoyed time with his Papa Mac on the river one day fishing and driving the boat---ALL BY HIMSELF and Rydge loved to go to Granny's and ride the pedal tractors and bikes. They also played in the mud at Granny's too. Big Grandma played cards with Rylan and she waited each morning for Rydge to come down to rock after a good nights sleep. He loved to sit on Big Grandma's lap!!! They are both cuddle bugs!!

Anyway, we are glad to be back and in our home. We plan to move soon, we just have to find the perfect place! We hope to do that in the next few days! We wished we could have seen more friends and family while home, but it was a pretty stressful trip and we just didnt get everything done! We hope everyone stays healthy and see you next summer!
♥Abby and gang.


My boy who loves to Smile!!! :):)

They do love each other...most of the time!

Snipping green beans for grandma Laura

Cousins, playin in the sand-TEAMWORK!!!

Cousins:Cael, Rydge(sun too bright), Trent and Rylan

the OLd three wheeler!!! Rylan had a LOT of fun on it this summer. I think he wore it out!

Papa put a swing up for the boys!

Rydge riding his TINY bike, but it works for a few weeks! Next year....a new bike!

Learning to drive the Farmall for the IL City Days parade....

hanging out at grandma Lauras and Papa Randys---you think they would get enough of the sand, but nope...first place they went!

Meramec Spring Park....beautiful! (Missouri)

so clear and pretty. the trout were amazingly large and tons of them!

Meramec caverns in Missouri.

papas OLD three wheeler ,it was Rylans great papas