What a whirlwind! We flew into Pittsburgh, spent 2 days there, drove to Hanover and spent 4 days there, then drove back to Pittsburgh for another 2 days before flying home. It was so nice to see everyone of course but it just went by way too fast! At least we'll be moving closer in a few months!

Our nephew Will LOVES trains, and so Matts parents have a train track that goes around their Christmas tree. (you can see it in the back of this pic - also see Will's little rocking chair facing the tracks - so cute!) This box is the "tunnel" for the train.

Will loved playing with Uncle Matt and hiding in the tunnel!

We spent Christmas Eve opening presents at the Kauffmann's. Matt's parents got us a box full of tools - in anticipation of us buying a house in Maryland! I'm sure they're definitely going to come in handy!

Matt's sister and her husband

Matt was so excited when he found this toy for Will. It's a remote controlled "assault vehicle." It has little nerf darts (12 of them) and you can drive it around and shoot the darts out of it. They actually go really far! And Will had a blast with it. It's fun being the aunt and uncle that can buy the kids annoying gifts and then send them home with their parents! haha. Sorry Natalie, I'm sure you'll get us back someday!

Christmas morning we tried out Matt's dads new waffle maker...yum!

Then we drove over to my parent's house for Christmas dinner. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures on my camera! We took all the pictures with my parents camera so I'll have to my mom send them to me. But I did take this pic of Roxy, my parent's boxer. Matt was torturing her by attaching her toy to her collar so that she couldn't reach it! Mean!

On Saturday we had a surprise 30th birthday party for my brother. His actual birthday is Christmas Eve, but it's usually easier to celebrate it on another day. This is his fiance holding the cake with all 30 candles!

Trick candles!

Resorting to using his fingers since blowing didn't work!

While we were in Hanover we also got to take a day and drive down to Maryland to check out our new base. It seems like it should be a nice area - definitely going to be different from LA! We also got to meet with our realtor and go look at a few houses. It was pretty exciting house hunting. I didn't want to have to come back, I wanted to keep looking at houses!

Once back in Pittsburgh we got a little more quality time with the family. This is our nephew Jake.

Matt and the scrabble game he won at...although he only beat me by 2 points!

Will and Matt stacking up dominoes and then blowing them over!

And snow! It actually wasn't too cold in PA until the last day there when it snowed a few inches. So pretty!