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Papa I like your new sports utility vehicle. Actually this is one of our favorites from veggietales. Charlie even sings this one!

Looking back on 2007

Miss Abby has had such a busy year. A lot of firsts this year. At the very begining of Feb. she became a big sister and her mom became a stay at home mom. This was a muchharder for me to get adjusted than Abby. Being one who has always kept busy. Even as a kid playing sports and as a teenager I always worked. Papa helped with this transition with our Wednesday night dinners. This at least got me out of the house once a week, and became something we all look forward to.

Later in late spring Abby became a great helper as I started my daycare. She had the best of both worlds, playmates and Mom!

She "graduated" from Tiny Tots and started High Five. Abby was sad to leave all her new friends but hasn't had any difficult making new ones.

I am looking forward to the many firsts for 2008, and I am enjoying sharing all of them with you as they happen, :-)

Tata

Ps. Dad this is 7 for December we are tied!

Christmas Day

This photo is some what of a tradition in my family. If two people have a camera it is only nateral that you would take a picture of one another taking a picture. We are a special sort! Abby got her own digital camera for Christmas, Thanks Auntie Beth! It surprises and terrifies me how much little kids can do now with technology. I am mostly scared that Abby's knolege with surpass mine this year, when it comes to all of this. Which I suppose wouldn't be all bad because than she can help me update these posts and I can teach her another family tradition, friendly competition!

This photo is the best I have right now of Abby's sweet Christmas dress. I know better ones were taken, I am just wating to get my hands on them. She looked like like a snow princess!

Speaking of snow princesses.....:-P

Tata

Christmas Time

What a wonderful Christmas we had. We hope all of you a great one too. Christmas Eve we spent the evening with the immediate Miller family and with the Lamm's Christmas morning. We had Christmas Dinner with my Mom. Come Christmas night we were tired out.

Santa brought Abby "Butterscotch"

Butterscotch is ALL Abby wanted this year. She was beside her self when she saw the horse in our dining room. Butterscotch has been renamed Sunny and is remarkably like a real pony not that I would really know what a real pony was like. But it "eats" a carrot, is voice and motion censored and will move its head to follow you. It also moves its tail and nieghs. Abby loves riding it too as you can see in the photo.

I will have to admit I was a bit taken a back when Abby said she wanted a real horse for Christmas, and than she pointed Butterscotch out at Target and said see Mom a Real Horse.

tata for now, more christmas photos to come..... Have to catch up with the old man!

MMMM Chocolate covered pretzles

Today Abby and I prepared for her last day of school before Winter Break. We made chocolate covered pretzles for her bus drivers and for her teachers... YUM! We snuck a couple too! Earlier this week she painted wooden chipboard snowmen and we stuck magnets on the back, it turned out to be a pretty cute & fun craft.

Here is a cute one....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooc5eJc5SHA

Mankato and more xmas....

This past weekend we drove down to Mankato, Auntie Katie graduated! Abby was bored to tears! She did really well, we brought her leapster and took several trips to the bathroom to give her a break.

Abby loves her Aunties! She told me she didn't need Santa, since her aunties would buy her toys from all over the world, just not from china!

Today we found a pickle ornament. We have been trying to hunt one down with no luck until today. It's a tradition I thought might be fun for us to start. We will leave the pickle ornament out with the cookies for Santa. Santa will put the pickle ornament on the tree in a tricky spot. The first one to find the pickle gets a special gift. The idea is to get children to take a minute an enjoy the beuty of the christmas tree, instead of jumping right in to the presents on christmas morning. Charlie agreed that this would be a great little tradition to start, but he was loosing faith that we would find a pickle for an ornament.

Speaking of Christmas traditions in addition to the ones Charlie and I have continued from our childhood, we have started another this year. The Holday Train. Last Wednesday the Canadian pacific R.R. had their holiday train stop in NE Minneapolis. The train stops with in viewing distance from our house but we have never made it over to the train yard to actually enjoy the festivities. We happen to catch the news Tuesday and found out that it would be arriving, and when we found out it was a bennifit for the food shelf we were thrilled to add this to our Christmas traditions. Below is a link and a picture of the train!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FAueGtMd_4

This evening the plan is to enjoy making cookies and chocolate covered preztles as a family. Abby is so excited and enjoys partaking in every little Holiday activity.

Looking back at 2007......

Happy Birthday!!! Nov, 2007
Cold Rainy August Day at Grandmas!!!

Playing in the leaves on a walk with Nana & Papa

Abby's Big Haircut in January!
At the Minnesota Zoo in unseasonable April!
Playing Dress up in June.
At the falls in September.
Playing dress up in July.

I have been going through photos for a calendar and I came up with some favorites that I thought y'all might enjoy.

E-pets

Abby was given an E-pet, I have barely had use of our computer since! She can go online feed it, play games with it, ect. She is reminding me of some adults I know when it comes to Sims. She has named her cute little puppy Molly. Molly goes everywhere with us, sleeps with her, watches her take a bath and so on. I think wiener dog may be getting jealous. I guess i don't mind beacause I would much rather her call for this new Molly than Wiener Dog. I think i blogged about this in September. Wiener Dog has been the sourse of many a giggle. I am curious if this whole e-pet thing is going to open her up to other breeds of dogs, the last past year it has been all about wiener dogs. I really can't believe how popular they have gotten, despite my childs enfatuation.



Well this is all for now! Tata

Molly The E- Pet

Jorge From Clifford