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December is a big month in the Abbey house!Not only is December the month of holiday celebrations with Christmas & New Years, but there is all the prep that goes into the holidays: shopping, wrapping presents, baking cookies, watching Christmas movies, decorating the tree, looking at Christmas lights – trying oh-so-hard to soak in every...

Ahh November – the month of thankfulness.We have SO much to be thankful for!!Our family is so incredibly blessed – and it’s as simple as watching this video to see why. Honestly, it’s one of the reasons I’ve been so captivated with this notion of creating monthly family videos with our memories – because as...

October is definitely one of my favorite months of the year. I love the way the weather changes – summer slowly fades into fall – the leaves begin to change, all the delicious pumpkin-flavored things return to us, and it’s my birthday month!(Never mind that October is also traditionally my busiest month of the year...

Our month of September had two (very strong) themes: (0:53) The first being that Braelynn suddenly became OBSESSED with cooking/creating food & wanted to “serve dinner” every single night. It was all QUITE comical (and, we might have wasted a little bit of food in the process – but oh well). Unfortunately, the other theme...

Ahhhh August – the last month of official SUMMER before all the fall stuff (cooler temps, back to school, pumpkins everywhere) descends like an avalanche. The biggest highlight of our month was that Braelynn OFFICIALLY reached 48″ tall & took her first rides on Phantom’s Revenge – a hyper coaster at our home park: Kennywood!She’s...