I lost photos from middle of iphoto library, no where to be found

So one day my wife is looking at the ipad and asks where some of her pregnancy photos are....I look and they are not there..!
the photos taken before the pregnancy are there.....The photos of the birth are there.....but not a select few in between.
I check everywhere.....EVERYWHERE, not on my time machine backup....which mysteriously seems to only go back 8 months....
not in my regular picture folder where i imported them from.
I use all the recovery options from permission recovery to a full rebuild of library.
I have no idea what happened to these photos. I was not doing anything, and have not done any iphoto clean up, I certainly did not delete them.
my ipads are synched to my MBP, I do not use any cloud services.
I am ready to accept that they are just simply gone, but want to check to see if there are any others out there who have had the same problem...NOT missing libraries, NOT corrupt librarys or bad upgrades.....just mysteriously missing albums.....
OSX 10.7.5
iphoto version (9.4.3) (720.91)

Apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
2 - run Option #1 to repair permissions and Option #4 to repair the database.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 - click on the Add Library button and select the library you want to add in the selection window..
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library âÅ¾™ Rebuild Library menu option.
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
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