The Pictures I Do Have

Pre-present opening with the girls - Olivia, Emma, and Abby

























Meg before the wedding
























The Happy Couple

























Abby and Jack burning up the dance floor

















Abby, Grandpa and Jack - best buddies
























Daddy and Olivia (above) and Mommy and Olivia (below)

Dentist's Kids Gone Wild

The coke can was robbed from the recycling bin. I did let her have the sucker, but we were making valentines for her friends with the other ones, so it hardly seemed fair not to let her have one.

More Photos

There are more photos from Abby's Christmas and winter fun thus far on walmart.com. Just in case you are interested :-)

Splish, Splash, Bath

Treed

Miles and Smiles

We've been out walking because of our lovely weather of late. Abby has been walking too - tonight she pushed her own stroller a whole block on the way home. We thought about jumping in for the ride, but figured the stroller wouldn't support us. Tomorrow is supposed to be another lovely day, so we will be back out pounding the pavement.

We put another 12 photos from yesterday and today on Walmart.com in the same album - these 4 are just a small sample. Hope you all enjoy :-)

Photos At Walmart.com

We uploaded the 11 month and first half of Abby's 12th month album onto Walmart.com for you all to enjoy.

http://photos.walmart.com/groups/abbyschristmasalbum

The password for first time users is "holiday"

We took a drive down to Hessel and Cedarville today for a visitation. The mother of the receptionist at Steve's office passed away Friday, so we went down to the visitation and took the advantage of the lovely afternoon to see the sights. There wasn't really a public beach of any significance to stop at, so we just did the in the car tour. It is a really lovely area!

Mom's Been Busy

...And Abby has been playing with her dog and her favorite doll JoJo. I decided I'd take advantage of the massive amount of time I spend in the living room with Abby by scanning in all the old photos I have in the house. So far I've managed to scan in 88 during nap time and a small amount of playing with Maize time.

Here is one of my favorites. It's Hannah around age 2 or 3 with the baby goats.

















It has been really fun looking back at so many old photos and remembering the good times. It's like our almost daily looks back at Abby's photos (since she loves looking at herself in photo albums). And we can't wait until Abby is big enough to meet some baby goats or ride a horse or do some of the many, many things I found in the pictures. I am going to be putting the best of the photos onto my flickr page, so you can check them out there.

Stair Climber Version 2.0

Here she is - walking and climbing up and down the stairs, thanks to her dad's great teaching.


Also, if you visit the website www.stevenwhitephotographicart.com you can now see Abby and Jack's bunny pictures! You have to choose portrait art and then select the client tab and enter the password "Hodges" (the H must be capitalized). They turned out super cute in spite of all the crying over the bunny!

For Grandma Jennie

Just for Grandma Jennie, since she asked so nicely, and because it was the end of Abby's 10th month, we've posted more Abby photos on our walmart.com site.

You can view and order the photos at: http://photos.walmart.com/groups/abbyschristmasalbum

If you haven't used the site before the password is "holiday". Happy printing!

New Photos!!!

We put Abby's 9 month photos on her Walmart.com page:

http://photos.walmart.com/groups/abbyschristmasalbum

If you haven't used it before, the password is holiday. Print away!

Riding Horses

Abby got a riding pony for Christmas and she loves riding it!


Also... Abby has more pictures at her WalMart photo site. The password for first time users is "holiday". We put her new ones and all the old ones too, just in case there are some old photos that you wanted and we didn't give to you.

Twinkle Toes

Here is a small corner of Abby's final version of the Christmas picture. Now, just to avoid confusion, there will be 4 separate versions of the Christmas picture that are going to be mailed out (so that each afghan maker has a special photo with their afghan in it). That being said, I will make sure that you all get to see each of the final 4 and we will even make the album we uploaded available on walmart.com for others to order from. But not just yet... you'll have to wait until after we send out the cards.

Tonight I have a baby shower to go to, so it will be the 2nd attempt at Daddy/Daughter night. We are keeping our fingers crossed that today's attempt goes better than last time, which was a sob fest followed by a car ride. Abby has a bath on the agenda so that should help. Plus at lunch time Abby didn't want her daddy to hand her to me (she actually did the whole stick tight trick). Steve said it was the best birthday present ever. I think I'd agree... maybe I'll take back the rest of his gifts. Just kidding, maybe...

Red Hot

We have an interesting dilemma around here today - our computer's memory is completely full. It must be we have a few to many pictures of Abigail. Luckily we have an external hard drive, so I am moving all the pictures (except the Abby ones) onto it. She is just too cute to kick her pictures off the computer, for now...

Abby didn't do as well with these shots as the last two sets and woke up in the middle of the night a little warm. Her fever has been below 100.5 all day and has responded to tylenol, so we aren't too worried about it. Unfortunately with the fever came the crabbiness we were hoping to avoid. She is really wound up today. It is even more unfortunate because Steve and I were hoping to get away this weekend to see the newest James Bond movie, but with Abby being grouchy and feverish we aren't sure any of our babysitting potentials will want to have the pleasure of her crabby company. Oh well... we can always wait until Thanksgiving weekend when there is bound to be a grandma or two who will watch Abby.

Well... back to purging the unneeded from our computer's small memory so I can continue to upload new photos. Happy Friday!

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