What is wrong with this picture? Look so very close. You might be thinking she really needs a bath, or poor girl she still does not have any hair, or mom did you forget to get her dressed this morning? You better look closer.
We went to the parade this weekend. We had fun but the parade was some what of a dud. It literally rained on our parade and that was sort of funny. It seemed to be sunny everywhere except for directly over us. Abrielle had her first lollypop, she suckered grandma into that one.
Brent took this picture this weekend and I just love here eyes in this picture. Look closely you can see something wrong in this picture too.
We went woodcutting this weekend. One of my absolute favorite things to do. The forest is so pretty right now, and the weather perfect. Here Abrielle is trying to help with the chain saw. She also thought she could help the dogs dig their hole. Too bad I did not have the camera close then. She climbed into the hole they dug and had a stick trying to help with this proud smile on her face.
Well, ok did you find what was wrong in the picture? You are right, she used to have two teeth and now she has one. What? Ya she pulled a table down on herself and knocked her tooth out last Tuesday. OOPS! We call her little miss pirate. She looks a little silly. Oh well,

Climbing

My mom has been telling everyone how much I like to climb. Here is proof. Mom was doing the dishes and turned around to see me like this. She looked a little nervious, something like I was a little close to the tile. I do not know what she is worried about. I have good balance. I do make my mom laugh though when it is bath time and I am trying to climb into the tub. She thinks that is just cute. Hope all of you are doing well.

Walking

Abrielle has been trying to walk for the last few weeks. On August 6th she took 6 steps from a chair to a pool table in the youth room. In this video is about as far as she goes up to this point. She does keep her balance a little better when we are inside on a smooth surface. I am laughing all day every day right now. She is so much fun. Hope you enjoy as much as I do. She just turned 10 months on the 12th, I can not believe it. She will be one before I know it.

A week of firsts

What a week! It all started when Blitz got sprayed by a skunk. What a night trying to clean him. Poor dog. Then off to California where Abrielle got to play at the beach, go to a petting zoo, ride a carousal (it was huge, the biggest one I have been on) and she had her first trip to the Harbor House. Abrielle loved the beach, loved playing in the sand and though the waves were funny. Meghan and Chris came down to see us for a couple of days and that was awesome to get to see good friends too. It was such an awesome time. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Breakfast Adventure!

Well, what can I say, first mom put the oatmeal close enough for my super extension arms to reach it so I dumped the whole bowl onto the ground. The dogs looked hungry. Then mom let me play with the bowl after I was done eating since I was already such a mess. I thought the bowl would make a good hat and all this sticky stuff does not bother me a bit, mom thinks that is a good thing for some reason.

Camping

So we went camping and Abrielle got to enjoy one of my favorite things to do ever, as you can see from the slide show below she loved every minute of it.

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Adam and Bre are Married!!!!

Wow Bre!!! You did an awesome job planning this wedding. It turned out beautiful, who could have dreamed up a better wedding! You will forever look back on this day and relive the moment. I know I will. What an awesome day, a beautiful and breathtaking ceremony that was filled with such power and God's presence in the room. But for me it was more than that. I got to see my brother fulfill one of his life long dreams, get married to the ONE God created for that purpose. On top of that, I get a wonderful sister! Wow, I still get emotional just thinking about it. You are the glue for so many people. You are the strength for so many who need help. You are the thoughtfulness people need to get through those tough days. You are the girl my brother cherishes. You are my sis. What else could I want? What else could I dream of? I thank God for you.

Here are just a couple pictures of my little girl, but as you can see the bride above stole the show and there is nothing else needed to say.

You all know by now I am slow

Last weekend we went down to the Valley for a great weekend. Uncle Adam took care of Abrielle and I must say he did a great job, she slept the whole way home that night. Anyway, he watched her while we partied with the bride to be. So much fun. I am sure most of you would guess I left my camera in the car that my brother had so I did not get any fun pictures of the shower, I was really upset about that. We also went to Landon Tow's birthday party and I was happy to get to see several of my friends and their kids. It was a ball. Here are pictures of all the kids including two sets of twins, we got everyone in it but Landon, the birthday boy was eating his cake! All these little ones are so cute.

Fun fulled weekend!

Well no pictures to share of this weekend because we could not find our camera in the car (but we did find it at the end of the weekend at least.) We took a trip down to Phoenix. We stayed with some of our favorite people in the whole world, the McMains family. We got to watch the kids compete in the state track meet. Girls took state and boys were runners up. They did awesome and it was exciting to watch them perform. Brent and I both thought it was relaxing. We took a little trip to Valley Christian HS and got to see some of Brent's students that are graduating this year. They are such neat kids and we miss them a lot. It was really good to get to see them. We missed a couple people but Abrielle was FINISHED and needed a nap. We got to meet Sophie Lara(5 months) and Brock Jackson (10 months) for the first time. They are both adorable and doing well. Brock's mom told us of this diaper cream (Abrielle had the worst diaper rash for three weeks and I could not get it to go away from this medicine I HAD to take.) Anyway make a note baby Avalon Organics is the brand name and the product is called soothing Zinc Diaper Balm. Seriously, this rash I tried EVERYTHING with for three weeks, but this stuff on ONCE and diaper rash almost totally gone. You have got to pick some up. I was just telling a friend there are very few MUST haves in my opinion with a baby but I sure just found one. Wish I could share pictures of these two little adorable babies we got to spend time with but you will just have to trust me in how cute they are. Also, Abrielle has been pulling herself up on stuff that is shorter by herself but for the first time yesterday she pulled herself up on something tall like the couch. Crazy girl. She better get this crawling thing down soon. She thinks she is under cover all the time sneaking up on the dogs in her army crawl. Hope all is going well for all of you.