Favorite Foto Friday #119 "Christmas Card Outtakes"

OK, so I haven't exactly been the best blogger as of late. I've been more like a blog stalker than a blogger. I just never seem to have time for it anymore. But when I saw that the theme this week's Favorite Foto Friday is Christmas card outtakes, I had to put something together, although it be late.
I don't really do photo Christmas cards per se, but I do take some photos at Christmas time to send out to the friends and family. Tabitha has been really good here lately about smiling for photos, which is good because I actually had friends who saw early photos of her when she did not want to cooperate for the camera and wondered if she was happy!
There weren't really that many outtakes this year, but here are a couple.




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Forever Family Day #3

Wow, it's been 3 years since they handed Tabitha to us forever! It seems like yesterday to me! I can remember anxiously waiting in the hotel lobby for Tabi and her foster mom to come. I was nervous that they would get delayed in traffic and be late or something worse. BUT my fears were soon replaced with joy. She was finally ours, FOREVER. True, we waited 3 more weeks before we obtained her Visa and came back to South Carolina, but today is the day we celebrate; we were FINALLY together forever!

Arriving....


Tabi not too sure about this....


Smiling!


Now...3 years later!



Happy Forever Family Day, Tabitha!

Favorite Foto Friday #118 "Family Fun" aka Fall Fun Fest

Last Sunday our church had its very first Fall Fun Fest. Tim is in charge of the children's ministries at our church and has been wanting to do something like this for a long time. October is outreach month at our church; what better way to reach out to the community than have a Fall Fun Fest? We are a small church so when Tim asked how much money was in the budget for this, he was told $0.00. All of the monies had to come from donations. Soooo, Tim began reaching out to the members of the church. A committee was formed (what Baptist church function do you know about, doesn't involve a committee?)They met weekly, outlined what events they wanted to do and.....
God made it happen. We had over $1500 received in donations and over 78 new family units signed in at our registration table! God is so good!
Here are some pictures of the event, of course a lot of them have Tabi in them!








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Halloween 2010

Halloween fell on a Sunday this year so activities started on Friday with a party at Tabitha's daycare and then one at one of my co-worker's home. Saturday we went to a "Hallelujah Hoedown" at the church we used to attend when we first brought Tabi home. Even though we don't go to that church anymore, there are a number of people there that we still know and keep in touch with. This year though, the hoedown seemed a little too big for us, so we probably won't be returning there next year.
Then on Sunday our church had a Fun Fall Fest. I'll devote another post to that event! Enjoy the pictures below.

Tabi as a bumble bee for daycare. She won a prize as the cutest costume in her class!




Tabi going down the slide at the Hallelujah Hoedown

Climbing the wall of "The Adrenaline Rush"

The slide of "The Adrenaline Rush"

One of the trunk or treat people had a Wizard of Oz theme, so of coarse our little "Dorothy" had to have her picture taken. Yes, Tabi was Dorothy on Saturday and Sunday, she said that being a bumble bee made her "too hot"!

Tabi and Officer Zach---note how much taller Zach is than Tabi, she's such a petite little peanut!

Favorite Foto Friday #117 U-Pick

It is Friday, time for Favorite Foto Friday over at Hannah's blog. I started the month with good intentions of doing updates on the blog, taking more pictures of Tabi. I confess, I have failed miserably. Time always seems to slip by a little faster than I realize and before I know it a week, two weeks, a month is gone! Whether or not I have new pictures to post that I have taken during the week before the Favorite Foto Fridays post is just not as important to me as it once was. The fact that we are all together able to be a normal (well, as normal as we can get) is what is important. Who cares if the photos aren't from THAT week!... Make the most from what I have and enjoy every.... single. ... precious.... moment. That is what I am going to do. So, sorry these photos aren't from this week. We were enjoying, living life this past week without a camera!

Tabi being her usual silly self!





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Favorite Foto Friday #116 "Mommy & Me"

It's Favorite Foto Friday. Since I missed the whole month of September, I thought that I'd try to do better this month with my blogging. Hannah has chosen "Mommy & Me" as the theme for this week's Favorite Foto Friday theme. I like Hannah, do not like my picture taken; I'd much rather TAKE the pictures. I do however have one recent picture of Tabi and I together. We went to the zoo last Saturday. The weather was absolutely gorgeous! Tabi of course had to do EVERYTHING there was to do at the zoo; the pony ride, the carousel, and the little train. Dad usually does all of those things with her since I want to take the pictures. However, they did convince me to ride the little train. I figured that most of me wouldn't be seen if(and I knew that dear hubby would take pictures) pictures were taken.




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A Day At the Zoo

The weather was perfect this past Saturday. We enjoyed it by heading down to the Riverbanks Zoo here in Columbia. We had a blast! Hope you enjoy seeing our pictures!

This scrapbook created with Smilebox

Oops how did that happen?

It is October 1st, oops how did that happen? I missed the entire month of September blogging! To tell you the truth, I haven't been taking many pictures, it's been too hot to do anything! You'd never know that the first day of fall had arrived around here with temperatures still in the 90's. Well fall has finally arrived! It took 2 days of raining --it hadn't rained in over a month so it was quite welcomed!
These pictures though are of the last few days of summer. Tabi loves to ride her tricycle; however, we live in a hilly area and she doesn't have a lot of flat land to ride on and her riding skills on hills aren't that great. So, the neighbor who has a nice flat driveway, let her come ride.





Look at her concentrating on her feet!




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Favorite Foto Friday #115 "Fun In the Sun"

If there is one thing that Tabi has it is an active imagination. She amazes me sometimes with the things that she comes up with! These photos are classic examples of that....aside from the obvious pair of swim goggles, which she is using here as they are meant for...."swimming"....what you may not be able to ascertain is that the little bib that she is wearing is her "swim suit" and the "swimming pool" is a blanket she has spread out in the middle of the family room. I mean, where does she come up with this stuff???
So this is Tabi's version of this week's Favorite Foto Friday. The theme is:"Fun in the Sun"---Hey, it fits!--- it's summer (it probably was sunny outside), she's having fun, and these are DEFINITELY my favorites for the week!






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Favorite Foto Friday #114 "Black & White"

This week Hannah's theme for Favorite Foto Friday is "Black & White". I love black and white photos for some reason. When I was a child Tabi's age, black and white is all that we had---it was rare to see color photos. I wish that my skills as a photographer were better and my skill editing was better. But, they are what they are and I am happy that I'm able to capture some of Tabi's youth in pictures. Hope that you enjoy them. Be sure to go over to Hannah's blog and see what others have done for Favorite Foto Friday---just click on the badge above. Have a great weekend!

Where's the time going?

I can't believe that 2 weeks have gone by since my last blog update! What is wrong with me! Just busy I guess. These are the photos from the close of VBS that I promised. Sorry I'm so behind!

Favorite Foto Friday #113 " U-Pick"

This week is another U-Pick theme week for Favorite Foto Friday. We've been busy all week with Vacation Bible School. The theme for Bible school this year is "Saddleback Ridge", a country western theme. Tabitha has been enjoying VBS a ton!
I'll post more pictures after the close of VBS on Sunday, here are a few from the first night.




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Favorite Foto Friday #112

Oh my, it is time for Favorite Foto Friday. I am still trying to recover from being back to work after having been off for 6, almost 7 glorious days! I am chosing to continue with the sibling theme. As I mentioned in last Friday's post, Tabi's older sister and her husband were in for a visit. Tabi hadn't seen Amy in over a year, but you would never have known it to watch Tabi and Amy together. Usually Tabi is quiet and reserved until she gets to know a person...not so with Amy. You would have thought that Tabi sees her everyday to watch her with Amy. She was so excited that her "big sister, best friend" Amy was here! And don't you know that Amy came to "just see her!"
These are some pictures that we snapped of Amy and Tabi together on the 4th of July....unfortunately Amy and her husband left to head home on the 4th, so Amy wasn't there to share in the 4th's fireworks.





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