The Millers: December 2011

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Presents and Presents

We were so blessed at Christmas. Wes & I counted 5 days in a row that we celebrated! It was great to be with all our family.

These won the greatest gift this year (perhaps you remember last year?)

Now for the back

These are the pajama jeans you have seen on TV. Mom gave these to Casey. Don't they look real? I love the ripped knee. They really do feel like pjs.

The highlight of Colt's Christmas was a real basketball goal. Unfortunately, Santa wasn't smart enough to clean up the trash and box in our garage. Colt said "next year I'm going to write Colt a letter and tell him to take his trash". Annie received 8 baby dolls and loves each one!

We have continued opening presents today!

Happy Birthday Annie!

If you ask her how old she is, she says "two" and hold up 5 fingers!

We celebrated with a waffle breakfast, lunch at Chucks (the child loves bbq, baked beans and corn) and a cousin cupcake party at the park! She has blown out candles four times and will do it again at the cousin New Year party at my parent's tomorrow!!

Cousin Party

Hanging out with Jack-Jack Christmas morning

Showing off her new Christmas dress

Emily made this one too!

Annie G is our little firecracker. She is a tease and loves to pick on anyone that pays attention to her! Annie is a good sleeper but still loves her "bop-bop" (paci) so I might change my mind in a few months. She is strong-willed and loves to sing and dance. This cracks me up because she is completely opposite from my grandmother, her namesake!

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Apostles

With all the cute pictures, I have to tell you how much our life is a real life. About the spanking spoon I took the church last night. About the toddler that arches her back when I buckle her in the carseat.

This was my dose of reality this week.

As with most of you moms, I struggle with keeping Christ in Christmas but making learning fun. We've been going through the advent and talking about importance of Jesus' birth. On the way to school on Tuesday, Colt yells from the backseat "Mommy, where is fkjwldkfjl" (I had no idea what he was saying). I asked him to repeat it. Finally I said "Are you asking 'where are the apostles'?" Oh, my head swelled. Then my heart swelled. I thought we've arrived. I have a genius in my backseat that is concerned about Jesus' apostles. Then he answered.

"No mommy, where is that oppossom" he said. "We saw that dead oppossum on the side of the road yesterday and its gone".