My baby is 18!!!!

Wow! I can't believe it has been 18 years since God blessed us with our wonderful daughter. She has grown into such a wonderful, beautiful, amazing, godly young woman. She is such a blessing to our family. I wouldn't change anything about her, she is my best friend. I thought I would share some of my favorite memories of her throughout the years. This first set are scanned in images and I am not sure of the dates. There are other posts following this with more photos. Enjoy and feel free to leave comments! I love you Stefani!!!


Hospital photo



Mitch meeting her for the first time. He has loved her ever since!



Tractor work at a young age.



Ouch! My appendix ruptured!



Squirrely



Kaydee and me



Ballet performance



Losing teeth



First time in ballet



Christmas angel.



The reason she doesn't wear makeup very often.


New hats!



More hats!

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Memories from 2003



Stef and Sparky meet for the first time.



Fun at the beach.



Best friends for life.

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Here are the 2004-5 pictures




Crazy kids



Chris and Mike gave Stefani Sparky for her birthday.



The excitement of owning her own horse.



Enjoying the sunshine at the beach.



Daddy's girl



Contentment



First love!



Strange!



Showing English



Best Friends



Showing western



Christmas

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Memories from 2006-7



Fair



Barrel Racing



Cornerstone's version of "To Kill a Mockingbird"



New kid


Fun friends!

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Memories from 2008-2009


Hmmm.......your guess is as good as mine.

Snow wrestling



Guitar playing at the Retirement Center



Teaching vet skills to others.



Beautiful beach day.



Whistling and Fishing.



Catching!



Canoe Trip



Fair Fun?!?




Beautiful young ladies!!

PC Fair 2009

I bought a new camera the day before fair. I snapped lots of pictures to get used to how it works. I was happy with the results.

Stefani and AnnaMae - one of her meat goats



Stef showing Kimber -her Nigerian Dwarf goat

Stef was so pleased with Kimber. She shouldn't have done well since she didn't freshen this year. The judge was so impressed with her quality though that she got Reserved Champion over all the dairy goats at the fair!!


Stef and her friends just having fun after a day of showing. I was pleased at how well the camera took this picture since they were going so fast it was hard to see them.

Goat Page Remade

I remade the goat scrapbook page using Stefani's goat instead of the clipart goat I had. Lora at
"Notes from the Sprapbooklady" made me a file to use on my Cricut that was designed after Stef's actual goat. How neat is that!?!? I really appreciate her and her talent!! If you need a goat you can get the file here. She also has lots of other really amazing files. I now need to learn how to chalk more realistically.



Here is the picture she used to create the file. Major talent!

Congratulations Stef - My 1st Hybrid Scrapbook Page

Stefani won a $100 scholarship to go towards her meat goat project for 4-H this year. God has continued to provide her with a source of income to pay for the expenses of her animals. It has been a great blessing to her and has really grown her faith.

This is my first hybrid page. The goat is from Precious Piecings with the ears changed to look more like a boer goat. It is the paper embellishment on a digital page. The digital kit I used was Momentz by DeDe Smith.