We experienced kind of a minor ice storm, but it made the hills in our neighborhood into perfect sled runs. The highest hill was so fast we saw two major sled crashes in two days. Abby and I are good enough to avoid crashing.
We made our annual trip to the Arkansas State Fair a couple weeks ago and the most astonishing thing happened: Abby had a great time. I realize that sounds snarky, but it’s not intended that way. It was truly astonishing that she had a great time. Our previous four trips to the fair ranged from Abby having sorta of a good time for awhile to Abby being miserable. She’s got a reputation for not enjoying things that other kids enjoy. But on this magical night in October, she had a ball from start to finish. She even rode the swingy swinging twirling thing pictured above. Twice, She was having so much riding and game playing that we didn’t make it to see the animals or the Hall of Industry or the freak show.
The fair is a target-rich environment for photographing things you don’t see every day, but it’s hard to shoot good stuff and enjoy Abby enjoying herself.
Abby broke with tradition on Johnny Appleseed Day at school and agreed to model for me. She actually put some effort into it, making this one of the better theme shoots I’ve done of her.
Abby participated in a cheerleader clinic at school and then got to perform a cheer at halftime of the high school football game.
Abby started her second new school in as many years. The photo was actually taken on the third day of school, but so what. This year’s first day went much better than last year’s.
Abby hosted a beach-themed birthday party in celebration of completing her 6th year of life. She and Gina put together a fun-filled afternoon of beach-type activities.
Experienced flower girl looking for additional gigs.
Abby started first grade a few weeks ago in a new school. Normally for such an occasion I would’ve had the ghetto studio fired up, but since we had just moved, chaos reigned. I had to do with the poor light on the back deck just before we left to drop her off.
We leave Abby at Nana and Gramps’ for a day and look what happens.
The next day we took her out on a local highway and let her go.