Our little Abbi

This Post is just some random pictures we've taken of Abbi. I decided it was time to put them on a blog before they really started piling up!


Abbi has finally figured out how to sit up by herself. This is the first day that she did it. She seems pretty happy by her accomplishment. It probably didn't help that mom was clapping and making a big fuss!


Here's Abbi sitting up all by herself playing with her toys. She also has learned to army crawl everywhere. We are still waiting for her to learn to put her knees under her. She gets up on her knees, but when it's time to move, she plops down on her belly and army crawls.


Abbi likes the exersaucer we got for her. It keeps her entertained for awhile. We love how she is always quick to smile.

Abbi is all bundled up as we were up at Twin Lakes camping the 19th of Sept. and it was a bit chilly in the mornings and evenings. She had lots of fun though.

Abbi snoozing on our bed. If she wakes up early in the morning, I usually just bring her in with Mark and me and eventually she falls asleep again for a little while.

Here she is waking up in the morning. We had to leave the house early for something so Mark and I were already up and getting ready.

Here Abbi looks like she is trying to tell us to go back to bed. I guess she got bored watching us get ready to go. She laid like this for awhile.

Abbi and her oatmeal. We have gotten better at not having so much on her face.

We borrowed this baby backpack from our neighbor and Abbi likes to go for walks in it. I guess her dad wanted to make sure she was all primped to go out.

The Queen of the King size bed.


Sometimes Abbi just talks to herself when she wakes up. This is what we found one day after she had woken up from her nap. She's happy as a clam!

Abbi LOVES her jumper! I am very grateful for it, as she is perfectly happy to jump in it while I take my shower. It's a great babysitter for things like that.

Abbi had reached up and pulled her headband over her eyes during her nap. I guess she wanted one of those black out masks and made due with her headband. She has also done this in her car seat behind us. She was crying, and we kept saying, "it's okay baby, we're almost there...." then when we got out and looked at her, we then knew why she was crying so much. We felt kind of bad.

This is Abbi's first attempt at baby cereal. It has taken awhile, but we are now pretty good at it. and she totally prefers oatmeal to any other. And I don't even want to talk about green beans.

Johnson Campout

Our annual Johnson Family Campout is held in July, but I figure it is better to post about it late rather than never!

It was a fun filled weekend, with huge water slides, lots of good food, fun skits, and great company. Mark and I got to the "campsite" (Mark's parents house for this year) on Friday night. We were lucky enough to have the fifth wheel trailer for our sleeping quarters. I say lucky because it was VERY hot this weekend, and we had air conditioning! :-) As it was hot, we went in one afternoon and took a midday nap. Abbi, as always, was our alarm clock to wake us up. Here she is going up to Daddy to tell him it's time to get up.



On Saturday, Mark got an early start on cleaning out his dad's shop. I know that doesn't sound like a "vacation" thing to do, after all we are "camping." However, Mark and I felt that his parents have done so much for everyone, and his Dad isn't home long enough to be able to go through it himself, so we wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to serve them and help them with this project that desperatly needed done. It took all day, and only breaks for lunch and dinner, but we got it done! A trailer full of trash, and another with DI, we got it clean! You can find what you're looking for, and when I ask Mark's dad how he likes his shop, I usually just get a look saying, "are you kidding? I love it!" We were happy to do this for them, and are happy they are enjoying it!

While the shop was getting done, there was also a HUGE waterslide getting put together thanks to Chris. They got sprinklers going on it, and everyone was going down it. It was fun to watch them go down and get all wet (and muddy). I'm sure it was very refreshing as, like I've said, it was VERY hot!

We also got to enjoy skits by every family. Regrettably I didn't get pictures of everyone as Mark and I sort of slacked on this part and we were putting together a skit on the fly! However, I did get a picture of everyone watching and of Grandma T doing her skit.


Ken enjoying himself watching the skits.


All the kids on the floor watching with the adults standing guard! We even had a curtain for the skit stage!




This is Grandma doing her skit. It was a fun little poem/story. We love having her come to our family functions!

We had great food throughout thanks to the camp cook Chris, and to all others that contributed. It was nice to be able to sit and talk and shoot the breeze with everyone and we look forward to another camping trip!