highlights from home

We are officially back in Korea, but we wanted to share a few pictures from our time at home. Being back in America was great!!! We really enjoyed time with our friends and family and all the conveniences of home.

We spent New Year's with friends. This is my best bud Mary Kate celebrating her 1st Anniversary as a married lady on New Year's Eve (I also got my hair cut over break...thank you Liz):

My parents and the dogs (Macey is the big black one and Hank is "the best dog ever" on the right). The hats were all my parents doing. I also think it is fitting that in this picture my mom is wearing an apron. Cracks me up.

Tom and Hank on Christmas Morning:

My favorite coffee shop--Kaldi's!!! If only Kaldi's could come to Korea.

This was great...we went to visit my Grandma and found that for the past year she has befriended a wild cat. She named the cat Twister and now Twister comes in the house on occasion and lets my Grandma pick her up and pet her. Only my grandma could take a very wild cat, name it Twister, and turn it into a friendly kitty. Our first day back in Korea has been nice. We woke up early, caught up on email, unpacked, went to a coffee shop to read, shopped for groceries, watched a movie...it's been nice to have an easy transition into life here. We don't start school until Monday so we have a few days here in Korea to still enjoy our break and adjust to the time change.

Sorry to anyone we didn't get to see over break. We tried to balance time between our family and friends, and it turned out that two weeks just flew by! We'll be home this summer for at least a month, so if we missed you this Christmas we'll catch you this summer. Being home really reminded us how blessed we are to have such great family and friends.