Here's Proof: Look Who's Walkin'

As you can tell I am a little excited about the whole walking thing but I think I might regret that in a short while. This is only day three and I feel like I chased her a ton more today than I ever have. But it's so cute and you can tell that she is so proud of herself that I can't help but love it!!! What a wonderful thing to be her mother!!!

Pictures at Penney's

On Saturday we decided to get pictures taken at JCPenney's portrait studio. Abby looked cute and her parents looked okay we got there and Abby was scared to death of the photographer. He was kind of dumb he kept making this weirdo elmo kind of sound anyway the pictures are okay but not great if you want to look at them you can log onto www.smilesbywire.com username :Tracy Butikofer Access code :LTPP0977112461JCP. Also Abby chose Saturday as her day to walk so I think this might be permanent but everytime I post it she stops so maybe I am jinxing her!!!

Father's Day in Yellowstone!!! A Little Bit Late!

For father's day weekend we decided to go to Yellowstone National Park. It was a free admission weekend so you could go in the park Saturday and Sunday with no fees and we love free stuff!!! It was alot of fun except for the rain, rain, rain. I swear everytime we got out of the car to look at something or eat the weather knew it and the clouds would burst open. On Saturday we got to the park a little late at about 2 o'clock and visited Old Faithful I never get tired of seeing that huge tower of water shoot up in the air it is amazing! Abby wasn't to thrilled with it but maybe next year she will appreciate it's awesomeness ( I'm not sure that is a word). We stayed at a Holiday Inn in West Yellowstone with 10 other people yep ten!! Of course it was people that we knew Mom and Dad, Travis, Ryann, Aftyn, Kaylee, Hunter, along with Alyssa and Blake and Chelsey and then the three of us talk about a full house. We took the kids in the pool while Ryann and Mom went to pick up pizza. Everybody was pretty tired but Ryann, Tyler, Chelsey and I stayed up talking until about 11:30 and then our beautiful daughter woke up at 12:30. I do not function well on one hour of sleep plus we didn't really have anywhere to go with her except the bathroom so she sat in the tub for a while so that she wouldn't keep everybody awake but I don't really think it worked sorry everybody!!! Anyway at about 4 am Abby went back to sleep and then everybody got up at 7 ouch!!! We enjoyed a wonderful breakfast and spent the rest of the day in the park it was a wonderful little mini vacation and I am thankful that my parents are always thinking of ways to spend time together as a family they are pretty great and we are so lucky!!! Thanks mom and dad we love you!!! Here a couple of pictures from our trip.

Abby and Daddy in the steam from ??? I can never remember the names of all the places Sorry look at someone elses blog for more info on the names.

This was in the Algae at Mammoth and I thought it looked like an A for Abby!!!

YOUR INVITED

Hey everybody I am hosting a miche bag party on Tuesday the 16th of June. If you haven't seen these purses you should they are super cute!!! It will be short and to the point and it starts at seven o'clock at my house. Please come and bring some friends if you want to! You can check them out at www.michebag.com. I hope to see you there!!!

WHAT!?! Who said my Baby could turn ONE!!!

Yep that's right Abby is a whole year old and I am in denial. What a whirl wind it has been, I don't know what we did before she was born but there is never a dull moment now. I don't forget every day how blessed Tyler and I are to have Abby in our lives we are truly lucky!!! Abby turned one on the 28th which was a Thursday so we went and had pizza at Craigo's with Grandpa and Grandma Loftus, Grandpa Keith, Becca and Brian, Bryan, Liz, Bryson, and Jessica, Abby inherited her daddy's love of pizza so that's why we decided to go there. Of course Abby was kind of cranky but it has been my experience (of a whole week) that one year olds are a little bit moody. We decided to have a BBQ on Saturday with friends and family and it was a wonderful day until we had tornado force winds interupt, idaho weather!!! Abby had a great time she had a lot of friends to play with and we were able to move the party into the house. Abby and I opened presents (mostly me she wasn't really interested) and she was utterly spoiled like all one year olds should be. After that she devoured a whole cake all to herself and it was adorable. Except for the weather it turned out to be a wonderful day thank you to everyone who shared her special day with us.

Mommy and Abby opening presents.

My Monkey's monkey cake. ( I know it's kinda bad but it was my first try!!!)

What a cute mess!!!