CANADA

Well we had a great time in Canada. The kids had a blast playing in the snow. Caty-lynne whinned about being cold but she still enjoyed the snow. These are pictures of when we went up to Banff for a couple of days. We went on a sleigh ride and to the hot springs the first day. It was a blast, thanks Nana and Granddad.

What's Going On In the Miller House

Well not much has been going on around here since the last posting. Funny story about Bri and Caty-lynne. So CL had to go the the doctor for her 4yr old check up and the night before I told her and she got upset b/c she wanted to know if she was going to get shots. I knew she was but I told her I do not know b/c the last time she got a shot (flu) she cried for about 1 1/2 and made herself sick all over the kitchen floor. So I thought it would be best for all of us if she did not know until we got there. Anyway as she kept asking about shots Bri

looks at me and says do you think they give shots to make you not talk so much? I said i don't know and he said well can you find out and if they do have them give Caty-lynne one. I just started laughing and said you really think she needs it and he said oh yes.
Here is a picture of Bri the day he had his assembly and got his certificate for being a Terrfic Kid. It was cute they had the kids sing and then they had the students that were Terrfic Kids come up and get there certificates.

Then we have Lizzy, here she is with her leap frog alphabet song magnent. She loves to walk around the house playing it humming and dancing to it. She is growing up so fast. She reminds me so much of Bri as a little boy. Always wondering what they can get away with.
Well Brian is doing Nuerology this month so he is around alot more. We are enjoying seeing him everyday and not having to work on the weekends. Its like a normal job 8-5, it makes me see how nice it would be if he had a job with normal hours. Oh well as long as he likes what he is doing. Then there is me and I have nothing exciting to tell about me. Same thing everyday take bri to school, go to the gym, come home clean up while lizzy sleeps, pick up Bri.,make dinner and put kids to bed. Pretty boring, i bet everyone is jealous about my days wishing they had such excitement in there days. In 6 days we are going to Canada for a week. We are really looking forward to it, the kids are counting down the days until they get to go. They are excited to see snow, nana and granddad. Well we will let you know about our trip when we return.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CATY-LYNNE

Happy 4th Birthday Caty-lynne. She had a great day, it started with getting this cute new outfit from Ooma and Papa and then going to get a biscuit and a diet coke at Bojangles.


She then had her Birthday party
that afternoon. She had a Hello

Kitty party. She had a few friends over and had a great time. She got tons of new cool things. She has gotten into Polly Pockets and she got a few new things of that and a polly movie. She got some new cloths and some lip gloss and glitter makeup. Later Ooma took her to build a bear and she pick out a unicorn and named her sweetie. She had a blast.


Later in the day Papa and Daddy took her, Bri and Michael bowling. She had a great day and we ended it eating at a mexican resturant. Yum, Caty-lynne had her own bowl of cheese dip and licked it clean.

Happy birtday sweetie we love you!!!

THE LOVE HATE RELATIONSHIP

This is what lizzy looks like most of the time. Walking around with a smile on her face, that is until her bossy big sister comes around.


Then she looks like this. I know Lizzy loves Caty-lynne but most of the time they start playing lizzy is enjoying it but after about five min. this is what is happening. Lizzy is screaming and pushing Caty-lynne away and Caty-lynne is not leaving her alone. When Lizzy is just walking through the house CL is right behind her pushing her where to walk so she goes where she wants her to go. I am looking forward to the day Lizzy can talk, b/c i think it will be pretty funny to hear what she has to say to Caty-lynne.


Caty-lynne I know you are only doing this b/c you love her so much. Also she has gotten to be a little bit jealous of Lizzy b/c she is no longer center of attention all the time. We love you Caty-lynne and one day lizzy will see you are only trying to be a good sister. I am sure they will be best of friend and enemies. At least that is how it was with me and keely. Now that we are older we have past the enemy part.

Pictures

Finally Some Pictures

I finally got some pictures from Christmas so I thought I would share a few.

Christmas

Now that Christmas is long since over with I thought I would blog about it. We had a great Christmas. I got a new camera and with the great luck i have been having with camera's this one was not different. Yes it was broken so therefore I have no pictures to post. But we had a great Christmas and I will be getting a new camera hopefully tomorrow. We stayed here because Brian was working and my family came for a few days. The kids got everything they could hope for and more. Caty-lynne's favorite is her Barbie Jeep that she rides up and down our street. She can really fly and it even has a radio in it and a barbie cd that plays barbie music. So her and lizzy jam out and ride all over the place. Lizzy likes to just sit in it and dance to the music. Bri got a new Bike and he flies himself up and down the street on his bike.
Now that Christmas is over life is back to normal. Kids are back in school and its pretty boring around here. Tomorrow is a holiday so no school and Brian has a day off so we will have a fun time together as a family. That is something that is very rare these days.
Caty-lynne's Birthday is in two weeks is she is so excited. She can't stop talking (and I really mean that) about what kind of party she wants and what she wants for her presents. So that is about all that is going on here in NC. Speaking of NC Brian was very upset last night when they lost there basketball game, I mean what is up with that. Being ranked number one did not last very long for them this week. Oh well we still know that they are really the best.

Caty-lynne's Big Day

So yesterday Caty-lynne got her training wheels taken off her bike and she did great. She was so excited that she was able to ride a bike like a big girl. At first every time Brian would let go she would stop pedaling and just glide, she did not get it that you are still suppose to pedal even after Daddy lets go. After about 2 or 3 times of doing that she got it and did great. We were so impressed considering she is only three and just got her bike in April. So Brian is calling her his Lance Armstrong. Of course I still have not gotten a camera so I have not pictures of the event, maybe I will go and get one today to take a picture of her and post it.

Oh How I Wish I Could Afford Private School!!

So I went to pick Bri up at school yesterday and his teacher tell me how Bri was pretty much jumped by a kid at his school on the playground. I guess Bri was playing with a little boy and these two Boys from another class came up and pushed him to the ground and started kicking and hitting him. He said he would get up and they would push him back down, he was trying to go and tell the teacher on them. He then tells me how they were trying to kick him in the privates. I was so mad, I ask him if he hit back and he said yes but just once b/c he did not want to get in trouble. I then said did you cry and his response was NO I did not want to look like a baby! So he teacher told me that the teacher of their class wrote them up and took them to the office, i hope they get suspended from school. I will find out on monday. I ask Bri if it hurt and he said they hurt his head from when he was pushed to the ground. He also said one of his friends from his class saw what was going on and jumped in to help Bri. So when the teachers found them it was a hand full of boys on the ground kicking and punching each other. Can you believe that someone in kindergarten would do this, i mean you might think this would happen in middle school or high school but not kindergarten. The whole way home i keep thinking to myself oh i wish i could afford private school, this is why people send their kids to private school or home school them. Oh well in 2 1/2 more years i guess we can. I guess what makes me mad is the fact that Bric is one of the most friendly kids you will ever meet. He always is looking for someone new to meet or play with. I am sure they just picked the first boys they could find. Just thought i would give on up on what was going on here.Bye

Update on the Miller's

Well I have not posted in a long time because I was waiting to get a new camera so I could have pictures to put in. Well I still have not managed to find time to go get a camera. It is not the sort of thing you want to do with 3 kids and Brian has not been around to much the past few weeks. I went online to look and found one I was going to order but Brian told me not to order to go and look to make sure I like it, anyway I will have one before Christmas. Things are going good around here. Bri lost his first tooth the other day so that was pretty exciting. He was also made a terrific kid at school. That is an honor you get for being good and doing well with your academic performance. In Feb. they will have an assembly and he will receive a cerificate. We were very proud of him for that one and he was very excited. He got a bumper sticker for the car that says I am a proud parent of a terrific kid, i told him I do not put stickers on my car so he decided to put it on his bike instead.
Lizzy is starting to talk more, when you tell her no she points her finger and shakes it at you and says no no and then giggles. She is so cute.
Brian is doing great, he is back in the ER working hard. He stays busy so he is happy to be back in the ER. And Caty-lynne and I are doing good to. We are all looking forward to Christmas. The kids are counting down the days. Well next time hopefully I will have pictures to go with.

SCHOOL PICTURES

Bri just got back his schools pictures so i thought i would share. He looks so grown up in the picture. I think they turned out very cute.

HALLOWEEN CON'T

Well I figured out how to get the pictures to work, so here they are.
Lizzy was so adorable, we had people asking if she could be their treat instead of the candy.

HALLOWEEN

We had a great time at halloween this year. These pictures were taken for trunk or treat at church. On halloween night we went to take pictures and our camera was broken. So I found our old film camera and took pictures. I scanned in the pictures to our computer but for some reason they are not showing up on the blog. So these will have to do. As you can see Bri was Darth Vader, Caty-lynne an angel and lizzy a butterfly. They other pics show the costumes off better.
Lizzy was so cute on halloween, she loved trick or treating. The next morning she got her bucket and walk around the house with it stopping and picking out candy. I took it away and she threw a fit. She screamed and me and then ran up and hit me on the leg. If she is doing this at the age of 1 and don't won't to see her at 3.

Our Trip To The North Carolina Mountians

Brian has had this past week off so we took a trip to the mountains (well really the rolling hills). This first picture looked so much prettier in real life. This picture does it no justice. The trees have all changed colors and they were beautiful.
We were execpting weather in the 40's but when we got there it was snowing and 28 degrees. It was also pretty foggy from the snow until the late afternoon so in some pictures you can not see what is behind us. Like the one above This was up by Grandfather Mountain.
This is a picture on our hike. We had a great time. With kids you can not go to far but they lasted 2 hours and we thought that was great for them. They did not complain the whole time, until the end that they were ready for lunch. Since it was 3pm i do not blame them.
We were a little upset because when we pulled up to Grandfather Mountain they were closing the entrance into the park because there was so much snow. They wanted to salt the roads and said that would take a few hours. This is where all the good hiking trails were at and also the swinging bridge. This would only happen to us really. The one time we spend money to go on vacation and when we get there they close. I mean really who closes a mountain. So we left there and went to the Blue Ridge Parkway and enjoyed the beautiful views from the road. Later we went into the little town Blowing Rock and ate and did a little shopping. All in all we had a great time. It was fun just being together.

LIZZY'S 1ST BIRTHDAY

I can't believe how time flys, it just seems like yesterday that sweet lizzy came into our lives and she is already turning one. I show you this picture of her cake b/c as you will notice in the next picture that she ate the whole thing. I have never seen anyone enjoy a cake more than she did. I have a video of her eating the cake so if jeni will tell
me how to post it i will. I was told we should enter it into americas funniest home video. The last picture of lizzy as you can tell she is all clean and wet. I was joking and said to Brian that she was so messy that we just needed to take her out side and hose her down. Well Brian said I will clean her and left the room. He came back in and she was clean. I said you did not take her outside did you and he said ya you told


me to. I was only kidding but only Brian would hose his 1yr old down. He said the kids across the street saw him come out and yelled hey and started to cross the street and when they saw him start to hose her down they ran back home. I said ya i wonder why. Anyway we all had fun and Lizzy had a blast eating her cake.

SOCCER TIME

Well soccer season has started once again. This is Caty-lynne's first time on a soccer team. She was so excited to have her first game. She scored one of the three goals her team had to win the game. She was very cute. She got pushed down by the girl in purple two times and she got up and keep on playing. Later in the game that same girl fell and got stepped on and started to cry and set the rest of the game out, I turned to my mom and said don't you just love karma. She got what was coming to her.


Bri is starting his fifth season of soccer and at his first game he was slacking. He did score a goal but he was not into it like he normal is. Oh well it was only his first game. Here he is giving one of his power kick. I think this is going to be a fun fall for the two kids playing soccer. I am looking forward to see the improvement in Caty-lynne. She is actually better as a beginner than Bri was his first season. I don't mean that Bri is not good b/c he really is, last season he was scoring 5 and 6 goals a game but Caty-lynne just seems like it is more natural and easy to her.

Brian's creations

Well this is a picture of Caty-lynne in her skirt that her Dad, yes her dad, made for her. He is still knitting and he made the girls both a skirt. They are very cute. Her is lizzy in her skirt. Here she is with her stomach bluging out and her little bubble butt as her dad calls it, very cute. Brian did a great job on these skirts. He is so funny for caty-lyne's drawstring for her skirt you had to bread some yarn for it so i offered to do it and he said no this is my project and i am doing everything for it and he did. They turned out great and the girls love them.

What a Mess

Well they came to cut the trees down and it was a mess. This is a picture while they were cutting the trees down. There were limbs everywhere, you could not even see the ground. Then this is a picture after they left. We no longer have any grass and bought seed to start over. Brian and I spent all day yesterday in the yard pulling roots and Brian tilled the ground. We still have a long way to go. I was second guess what we did. Anyway we will now actually enjoy our yard once it is all done without pinecones and pineneedles everywhere.

The Kids

I thought I would show a few pictures of the kids, because nothing exciting is going on here. I caught Bri in the princess chair and took a picture and told him I was going to post it. He just laughed and said sure mom. He is so cute, he is truely his father's son. They have the same personality.







Then her is our princess and she truely thinks she is a princess. We got her a crown the other day at target and she wears it everywhere. She had to wear it to school and when Brian went to pick her up, he said he was their for Caty-lynne and her teacher said oh do you mean the princess. So now even at school the are calling her the princess. She makes me laugh daily with her way of thinking. Today she was upset on the way to school b/c she had forgotton to put on her lip gloss. She told me that she did not look pretty b/c she had forgotton to put it on. I reminded her that i do not wear makeup so does that make me not pretty and her answer was yes. I do not know how she came to like makeup so much, i mean the only time i ever put it on is for church and even sometimes i don't do that. She is such a priss. Her dad blames the sweet lady who bought her the makeup in the first place. I will not say who that sweet lady is.



Here we have sweet little Lizzy. If you can see this is the day she had her first ponytail, well if you can call it that. It was on the top of her head. I thought see looked so cute. I think her sister has been teaching her how to show off b/c after i put it in she went to show her dad and sister her hair. She would grunt until they looked at her and told her how cute she looked. She is starting even younger than her sister on that one. When Bri saw her after school he laughed and said, Why does lizzy have a ponytail on top of her head? It looks funny.










This a a tribute to my mom. This was her dance costume when she was a little girl and I would play in it was I was a little girl and now her granddaughter is wearing it. It is amazing that it has held up b/c it is sooooo old. Just kidding mom. But she looked so cute dancing around the house and she then informed me that I needed to take a picture of her so we could put it on the blog. So here she is Miss Caty-lynne.