Maiden Voyage

Spencer says we should name her the Jolly Roger.  We got an awesome deal on this beauty and I have a feeling many hours of fun will be had thanks to her.  After a long cold winter I am so looking forward to summer in our house.  Along with that comes yard projects (photo brag coming soon) playing in the yard and spending time down at the lake.  Now we just need to invest in some life jackets so the neighbors don't judge us as negligent parents.

This girl knows how to work the camera!

I have way too many cute pictures of this girl. She is such a happy baby and gives out smiles so freely I just can't get enough.  

 Even after her first attempt at solid foods with her face covered in goo she is still adorable.

She is our family model.  Here is her photo shoot with our new living room furniture.

Great Grandpa makes these cute little jewelry boxes for all of the baby girls.  Since she lived under the same roof as Grandpa Egan for the first couple weeks of her life I think she ended up with a special place in his heart.  They seem to like each other.

Its happening way too fast.  6 months old already.

Shut the front door...he's already four?!

Yep, still as cute as when he was three and still exploding with personality.  You never have to wonder how Owen is feeling because he wears his mood on his face.  He loves to tease his older brother and snuggle his little sister. He loves doing school with Mom and has surprised me how quickly he is catching on.  He loves music like his dad although he rarely sings out loud, instead he is a master lip syncer and rocks his dance moves.  I love having him as my little buddy all day long and am trying to make the most of this last year with him before he starts preschool.

This years cereal of choice

Cake anyone?  Heaven knows there was plenty.

 

 I guess I will allow him to keep having birthdays and growing up as long as he promises to never get too old to give us his awesome hugs.  Man I love this little Bubba

Boot Hockey

This has been a very long and cold winter and honestly kind of a rude welcome back to Utah but on the bright side we live in a pretty cool place where when it gets really cold this becomes an option.

Ice hockey on the lake.

The boys were good little goalies and took their job very seriously.

After almost 9 years of marriage Scott is still able to surprise me with another random skill.  Who knew he was good at hockey?  Apparently street hockey was a big part of his childhood and he had a blast bustin out the old skills. 

When the game was over we headed home taking the shortcut across the lake.  

Christmas 2012

We had an amazing 2012.  I don't say this intending to be braggy at all because along with being great it was really hard too, but this Christmas time as I thought back over all that happened in our family this year I couldn't help but feel so grateful for all we experienced.  It's crazy that last year at this time we were in Kansas for Christmas missing family.  Since then we have:

Gotten a new job in Utah.

Lived in separate states for 8 weeks while pregnant.

Had a wonderful early surprise baby girl.

Bought our first home. 

Moved 2 weeks after having a C-section

Spencer started 1st grade and is gone all day...Owen misses him terribly.

There were many other wonderful things that happened this last year but those are some of the biggies.  We are sure happy to feel settled down and enjoying this Christmas surrounded by family and our Utah friends and we sure do miss our Kansas ones (visitors welcome Ü)

 Babies first Christmas

 Good call Dad.  I think he likes it.

 This year Santa turned my house into a war zone.

 Nothing beats Christmas with little kids.  Everything is so fun and exciting.

Life at The Miller House

We try to have a good time around these parts.

We play.

How is it that we have no trees in our yard but we still ended up with all these leafs?  If you ask me we just got lucky.  If you ask Scott he thinks it's super annoying. Ü

If you end up bored on a cold winter day stuck inside.  Try shaving cream.  Owen had a blast and the house smelled amazing.

 We smile.

 

 We pose.

 We Jam!

 We talk baby talk.

You gotta problem with that?