Our boy 4 months

Oh by the way ...

Since we haven't updated at all in forever and we've had SO much happen here's some of what we've been up to ...

Our girl Hailey is getting so big we can't believe it ... she turned 3 this summer! We are literally obsessed with her and her personality ... she has always been an excellent talker but lately we can't shut her up its non stop and to any or everybody that will listen, she is not one bit shy and absolutely loves attention! She is getting sassy and must think she's 10 years old.

We had an awesome summer with Kevin out of school he still worked his 7 on 7 off at the hospital and I think there was only a couple weekends that he was off the whole summer that we stayed home ... we had so much fun on a trip to the Oregon Coast, week in Seattle, Bear Lake, Boys back packing trip, boating, and holiday weekends. We love having him around more and are so excited that come April we will have him LOTS more and start to have a normal life! We miss him when he's not around!

Hailey started Preschool this year ... she has been wanting to go to school like all the big kids for a long time and was so excited to start! It was short lived and now when we have to get ready she tells me she doesn't want to go and is sad when I leave her ... she sure knows how to milk it for attention because she LOVES it and her teachers. She is learning so much and loves to play with the kids ... she always has the biggest smile when we pick her up. She has started playing school and pretending she's Ms. Marcia and Ms. Jodi its so fun watching her grow up and everything new that comes with it. We miss her being little and sometimes she drives us CRAZY because she's so active all the time non stop and asks a million questions (sometimes I honestly don't have an answer and she looks at me and says come on just tell me) but she makes us so happy and we wouldn't want her any other way ... SHE'S SO FUN!

WE'RE HAVING ANOTHER BABY

Due Jan. 9th

and

IT'S A BOY

We are so excited about our new little one coming and are getting anxious to meet our little guy.

Hailey was a little sad it wasn't a girl she actually put her head on the chair and sobbed ... it was so dramatic and so an act ... she has now totally warmed up to the idea now and will be much happier not to have to share her daddy with a sister (she is such a daddy's girl). Kevin being the only boy with all sisters is super excited to have a boy. Everything is looking great and he's measuring right on track. I'm probably going to do another C-section and we're hoping to talk the Dr. into a few days earlier but if he hasn't come about January 2 on his own that will be the day! I know every pregnancy is different but from the very beginning I had a hunch it was a boy ... its been totally different this time around I was not sick one single day with Hailey and the start of this pregnancy was totally different pretty much I felt sick all the time and he moves all the time I hardly ever felt Hailey move at even at the end. I have been feeling great now and am so excited and anxious to get everything ready for him to come!

Friends

Tuesday night Jenni and I drove down and met Brooke for dinner. I love those girls so much, its so nice to get together we just "get" each other nothing has to be explained and not once do I worry about one single thing that comes out of my mouth. They are most definitely my best friends ever and I don't know what'd I'd do without them I truly feel 100% comfortable being myself with them. I can't wait for summer and school to be out and to be able to hang out with Brooke and Dre more. I am so thankful for friends like them I can't even say how much we've been through together ... college was CRAZY and I'm glad all these years later we've still got each other. Not to mention we all know WAY to many of each others secrets so I guess we're kinda stuck with each other!

I am trying to think of doing something with this neglected blog ... and blog posts always sound so much cooler and interesting in my head. I swear we do fun exciting things but lets be real sometimes its to much work to blog about them. Like

We went to the circus a few weeks (maybe months) ago ... WT central and a total money pit I couldn't believe how many people paid $10 to ride on an elephant with 8 others for maybe 30 seconds however we do have a child who is weirdly obsessed with horses ... I'm not kidding obsessed and insisted on riding on the "little baby" horses ($6) then intermission and they haul the "rides" out again and the glow stick things they sell at the Dollar Store for $15 seriously I've seen it at the Dollar Store! But seeing Hailey absolutely in amazement when the tigers came out made the night so fun!

Valentines day bowling with the Argyles: has anyone been to Boondocks so fun! Hailey wasn't as excited about bowling as I thought (but maybe its because on our way in she saw a carousel and as said before can't leave horses or really any animals alone) best part of the night Kaden randomly tried a game (we still don't fully understand how its suppose to work) and it seriously starting pouring out gold tokens (we're taking him to Vegas) so the rest of the night we were running around trying to get tickets to buy the lameo prizes it also should be mentioned that Kevin really wanted the whoopie coushin.

We've been back to Boondocks and didn't have the same luck but I have learned several things about Kevin as a dad ... he's obsessed with video taping everything Hailey does lately on his phone and isn't even the least bit worried about who sees like him literally climbing in the under 48" play place to record her sliding down the slide and him hoping she'll plow into some kid ... he really records her everywhere.

I feel like I never see my husband and I am not exaggerating I really think some of our neighbors maybe think I am a single mom that sometimes has this guy show up at 1 am and leaves before light ... awesome! He works so hard at the hospital and he really loves it.

So if you're like me I secretly love seeing people fall or do really stupid things: 1 it makes me laugh so hard and 2 makes me feel like I'm not the only klutz idiot out there. The other day after story time at the library I totally tripped on the curb and fell right on my butt the kind of fall the is not graceful at all ... best part Jenni and Bri were pulling out and saw the whole thing ... you can't recover from that so I just sat there laughing knowing I made somebody's day because I'm sure every car in the parking lot saw.

A few days later I totally saw a kid run full on into a glass door at the store ... that made my day! (I've done that too remember in Hawaii Brooke but before you laugh to hard don't forget you peed your pants laughing at me)

We've been potty training and it has to be the WORST thing about being a parent its a total nightmare especially to my determined strong willed daughter ... she gets it but I am so tired of fighting and cleaning up messes so ... she's back in pull ups (I know worst thing) but I'm kinda over it ... most days she does really well but sometimes she doesn't feel like it.


So maybe I'll try to blog about our day to day happenings ... big events seem like to much work ...

December

Wow ... the month of December is already over??? Well we had such a fun month (pictures to come) and today it is officially over ... school started back up again. Kevin was out of school and no clinicals for the entire month so he was just on his 7 on 7 off schedule at the hospital ... thats right every other week he was off and we got to spend every morning with him! What are we going to do now that we'll never see him again? Well the month of July will be his next big break ... that's not to far away is it? We had so much fun this month, it was kind of a let down that he had to work Christmas eve and Christmas night but we had a fun time anyway. Grandma and Grandpa Mills came and spent the night,Grandpa Don visited from Seattle, we hadn't seen in 6 months! Spent a few days in Logan with the Mills family ... and lots lots more! And now back to reality the tree is coming down today and then Kevin's crazy busy schedule will start we'll need to find lot to keep us busy

Disney on Ice

Jenni got tickets to Disney on ice and we decided to make a two generation girls night out ... Lisa came too. We started with dinner at Jenni's house. A minor delay on the way (right Jen ;)! I put together little treat bags for the girls complete with Mickey Mouse on the Ice book, a princess crown, and snacks! The little girls were so cute in their tutus and crowns and absolutely loved the show. Hailey has just started getting into the Disney movies and she knew every character (except the Lilo and Stich ... we could have maybe done without that one!) She was so happy and it was such a fun night!

I love that Jenni lives so close and she's kinda in the same boat with busy husbands. With Kevin working and studying so much its nice to have someone to get out and do things with and when Ronnie's out of town or busy it keeps us both from going insane! And could Bri be any cuter? Hailey is so lucky to have such a cute, fun, little friend.

Hailey brought home a few baby pumpkins so that night we painted them to give to Grandma and Grandpa. Hailey loves painting and mom is sure to only buy washable paints so we don't make a big mess or at least one that can't be cleaned up!

Pumpkin Patch

A week or so before Halloween Jenni and I headed to a pumpkin patch in Kaysville ... it was so fun and the girls loved it!!! Hailey was all about the dirt and wasn't afraid one bit she seriously wandered all over the patch! Bri and Hailey have so much fun together and are getting old enough to really play together!

jumping on the bandwagon???

So I have all along kinda hated private blogs ... you know clicking through peoples blog list and thinking oh I remember them; wonder what they are up to and it's blocked kinda annoying right? Well a few things are making me think about making our blog private: 1.Ordering a yearly picture/scrapbook my sister in law just had one printed and its pretty cool but I would probably want to put more details in it about our everyday lives that maybe I try not to publish for the whole world to see 2.Speaking of whole world I will randomly get comments and followers from all over the world even someone telling me what foods Kevin should eat more of because or his radiation exposure or someone saying they literally spent hours looking at pictures of my daughter ... what who are you? 3.I saw on someone's blog about not posting about who their daughters teacher is and what school they go to and using fake names for their kids ... that got me thinking people could get a lot of details that I don't even really notice about our family and where we are and what we are doing.

Not that I think our life is all that interesting ... but I think its fun to post and back to number 1 ... super easy scrapbooking! But kinda am a little creeped out right now ... what do people think???

I really might make our blog private in the next couple weeks so leave me your email address (I will delete it after) even if I don't talk to you very often or you are Kevin's friends from high school that I've never met ...

Mills Trip 2010

Every other year we go on a trip with all of Kevin's family in the past its always been to the Oregon Coast ... but after a crazy night last November after Sunday dinner it was decided to try some place new. We stayed in this amazing cabin in Island Park,ID! It was fun and different! We were in the car a lot and Hailey was such a trooper! We had awesome food, fun in the hot tub, ranger rides, walks, boat rides, book reading. Kevin got in lots of fishing time! I think my favorite part was the night we went to this little play at Macks Inn; pirates of the car-ribean! It was so cute and actually funny ... I kind of want to go to a dinner theater down here somewhere I was impressed! Hailey is the youngest grandchild and was sad each night when all the kids got in the hot tub and she couldn't because it was too hot but loved all the attention and time playing with her cousins (sometimes though the attention would be a little much and we would hear "leave me alone" in her little voice) There was a fox that lived rear the cabin and Hailey loved trying to see it and still talks about the Fox! Louise was hoping to see a moose in the reservoir one day unfortunately we never did ... just as we were driving to head home one ran right in front of our car it was crazy we almost hit it! Hailey forgets the almost part and tells people "Grandpa hit moose with the car"!All in all we had a good time and look forward to our next trip ... wonder where we'll go next time???

 

 

 

One night we played this game Minute to win it which I up until now thought was called in it to win it ... so whatever! It was so funny to watch everyone try to do all these crazy tasks! Hailey was so cute and knew just what to do from watching everyone else! we worry the next time she sees an oreo she'll try to eat it off her own forhead or put panty hose on her head ...

 

All the kids painted little bird houses to hang in trees around the cabin to attract birds ... I actually think it was all the squires that ate the bird seed ...

 

Everyone was so excited to go fishing ... all the kids had their fishing poles even Hailey's pink princess pole! The big boys bought licenses for the whole week even Michelle got one for a couple of days and was sure with her salmon eggs and left over hamburger she was going to catch tons! They tried fishing in lakes, rivers, off the boat in the resevoir ... but nothing ... the fishing was awfull! Jaren and Kevin did end up catching a few with their fly rods towards the end of the trip! Natalie caught one illegally floating down the river and Derek caught a tiny one ... that was about it!