First Steps

Well the summer has been extremely crazy up here. We have been to Texas and back, had family here, been on a mission trip, youth conference and camp. But to top it all off Abbi took her first 2 steps today!!! We were so excited just watch the video.

I know I haven't posted in awhile so here is all that you have missed...

• She says mama, dada, by by (sorta)
• She gets into everything
• She loves water....there is another video for that
• She has been on her first trip to Texas
• She has been on her first mission trip to Kansas/Nebraska
• She is eating anything you put in her mouth or anything she puts in..even if it's not digestible
• She can play peek a boo
• She can buzz her lips
• She spits and sputters
• She will wave bye bye
• She gives Kisses
• She definitely knows her name and the word NO

I'll just let the pictures say the rest

I love my cousin!

Driving Pawpaw's tractor

Uh oh they caught me

I Love the water!

Climbing up

Shipping me to grandmas

"Help Daddy, I'm stuck...Don't take a picture of me!"

Getting ready for the 4th

Daddy is funny

Hi Riley

Baby dedication service

Playing in the bubbles

Say Cheese!

hi Memaw

Hi Grammy

My first set of drums

Exhausted!

As far as the rest of us.....Tyler is getting ready to start school on September 8th. He is still working at Mcdonalds and the Church. I am still working at Mom's Milk Boutique and keeping up with Abbi. And Riley is losing alot of weight. The vet said she had to lose 80 pounds cause she was 114 pounds when we took her in...that's good compared to the 135 pounds she weighed when we got her. She is looking good though.

Video of Abbi swimming at the family reunion

Enjoy!!

Fun at the state park

Ok yall I'm sorry it has taken me so long but my good excuses are that 1) I have a 8 month old getting into everything and 2) I couldn't get the videos to upload or you would have seen these pictures about a month ago. 3) Our summer is crazy and it never seems like I am home. I will try and get the videos working today with some even more updated pictures. Most of these picture are of Abbi when she is 6 to 7 months.

Abbi is crawling, pulling up, driving (just for Mendi) and she says mamma, da da and bye bye, and some other things I can't quite understand yet. Hope you enjoy I will update more later.

This is a waterfall (no water yet) at one of the state parks here

"Yep, I'm cute!"

"This green stuff feels funny on my feet"

That's me fishing illegally....oops

This is Fern Cliff State Park. I didn't know such pretty places where in Illinois.

"Cheese"

"You want me to do what?"

"You're funny mommy!"

"Take my picture"

Standing all on her own

Abbi has the smallest mission shirt

She is starting to walk with her toy

Mother's Day Weekend

I hope all mom's had a wonderful Mother's Day! My first mother's day with Abbi and Tyler was wonderful and interesting. It all started on Friday afternoon when we had an inland hurricane. Yes I said a hurricane in Illinois. I have posted some videos and pictures that Tyler took of this below.

Abbi is starting to crawl. She will take one crawl forward and two crawls backwards. I have posted some videos of this too.

"How do I get up there?"

"You want me to do what?"

"Cheese"

This is a walnut tree in Pastor Brett's yard blown over by the storm

This is the tree in our yard that cracked

Our neighbor standing in the deep waters

This is how much rain we got

Watch closely at the very beginning you will see our neighbor's tree being blown over



We had winds up to 100 MPH

I don't know if you can tell how hard the rain is coming down but it was pretty hard