Finding everything

What do you mean "no?"

I can see it, if only I had longer arms.

Alright, I got it.

I love snowmen!

A friend of ours had this cute snowman suit, and I couldn't help myself, being the snowman collector, I needed my baby in a snowman outfit. 

Mommy's Little Helper

It's hard to believe she is nine months old.  She is doing so many new things.  These past couple

of weeks we started crawling off our belly, pulled ourself up to the couch, and started to wave bye-bye.  She decided mommy needed help doing the dishes by making sure the lid stayed down.

Then although not pictured below, we helped mommy take clothes out of the dryer.

Sewing

I used my Christmas money to buy a sewing machine and this is my first project.  I am very excited to learn how to make clothes and crafts.

Brrrrrr!

I am so glad we live in Texas where we can get a real winter for a week or so and then back to sunshine.  Parts of the lake we live by froze over so I went to take some pictures.

The smooth areas are the ice patches.  Below all the birds were flying out and landing on the ice.

Christmas 2009

What a Christmas!  We headed out to Monahans first to have xmas with mom, grandma, Will, Pam, and Kylie, and Haroldine got there in time too.  Abigail's first xmas was great.  All she did was pull off bows and eat her packages but it was fun.

Mom got Abigail and Kylie matching outfits so we had to take pictures.

We were not cooperating very well at first.

So we gave them something to play with.

Well one bow and two girls doesn't go over well.

Abby was quite the bully.

And when their patience was wearing thin, I heard Abigail lean over and whisper "If we both smile at the same time, maybe the photo shoot will be over."

"Ready, 1, 2, 3, smile"

Christmas eve we got up to head home and somehow missed the news bulletin of the blizzard, so it took us 18 hours to make a trip that usually takes 7 hours.  Abby was a trooper.

Yes, I got her out of the carseat.  We were going 1 mph most of the time. 

So we made it home and had xmas and Santa at our house xmas eve.

Then we drove  to Grandma and Granddad's xmas day where she

got her first pony.  It's really cute, it bobs its head and whinnies.

We took her outside to get some pictures in the snow, just in case that's the

only snow she sees for awhile.

THen we finally made it back to the house for some rest and relaxation.