Thanksgiving 2011

Thanksgiving is my FAVORITE holiday!!

Mariah and me about to make LOTS of pies.

7 Weeks

I can't believe that Kylie is quickly approaching her 2 month mark. She's getting so big!


I use an app called BabyConnect to track everything Kylie. According to the app, she was in the 17th percentile when she was born and now in the 16th percentile. Mariah has always been under the 5th percentile. Kylie is huge comparatively! She actually has meat on her bones! But why do I have such small babies?? Not that I'm complaining. I would much rather haul around a peanut than a chubs. And I know better than most that good things come in small packages :) I wonder if our next baby will be even bigger?

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Miller, Party of Five

Today was a new experience. Brian had the morning off from school so we decided to go to Disneyland (our passes just got renewed, thanks Paige!).

Pumpkin Patch!

  On Monday, I took the girls to the pumpkin patch at the Underwood Family Farms. This was the first huge public outing I have done by myself. Thankfully my friend Paige carpooled with me so she helped me out quite a bit.

For some reason I thought a Monday morning would not have very many people, but I forgot. I live in southern California. Every place you go has a bazillion people! I was a little in stress mode, but it turned out to be an awesome day!

Tanya Comes to Visit

Brian was on a school trip to Mexico this past weekend, so I asked my sister Tanya to come help me with the kids while he was gone. We had an awesome girls weekend!

Kylie's First Month

Whelp, these pictures used to be in chronological order, but in uploading them, they are a little scrambled so I am just going to narrate instead of trying to reorder them!

It has been a fun and crazy first month getting used to both of my girls. Kylie is a great baby but is eating around the clock. Mariah is a great big sister but is going through late Terrible Twos. But all in all, there have been way more ups than downs. There is definitely never a dull moment in the Miller home!

Kylie's Baby Blessing

We blessed baby Kylie on Sunday, September 18th (on Mariah's birthday!). Brian's family was still in town for it. And we also had help from some friends in our ward. Usually people wait a little longer to bless the baby but we wanted family to help, so it was either now or during the holidays in Boston! Here are some pictures from the day:

Happy Birthday Mariah 2011

Mariah has been in our family for 3 awesome years! We love her so much and wanted to share what we did for her birthday weekend. Because her birthday was on a Sunday and because we were doing Kylie's baby blessing on that day, we decided to give Mariah TWO birthdays. We celebrated the whole weekend long!

Grandma Marlena with Mariah, Blake and Kylie

Kylie Rae Miller is born

Kylie was born early on Tuesday, September 6th. Here's the story:

Yes, I had my baby

Kylie Rae Miller

9/6/11 6:30pm

6 pounds 7 ounces, 19.5 inches

I'm sorry this is last month's news! I promise to add more pictures soon. I am in the process of a big update post of this past month, but it's been so crazy with 2 kids. It's hard to find a solid chunk of time. If you are impatient, find me on Facebook because I have been adding pictures every week.

I'm in love with this little bug!

38 Weeks!

Yep, I am still pregnant. Tomorrow I will be 38 weeks. I can't believe I am at the tail end of this pregnancy already, it seems like it has gone really fast. And in some ways it has gone really slow!

Bye Bye Disneyland!

Sadly, this was the last week that our passes worked at Disneyland before the summer season. We won't be going back till the middle of August! We tried to make to most of it. We saw World of Color for one last time. And even braved the long lines for the new Little Mermaid ride. 

My friend Paige and I even took an extra trip on Monday to say our final goodbyes.

I'm kind of glad we can't go this summer. Once school is out, the parks get ridiculously crowded and the weather will only get hotter! Not the best combination for a prego like me.

Mariah goes thru withdrawals every day. She even sometimes mentions Disneyland in her prayers :)

Iowa Trip

Well, as some of you may know, I went to Iowa for the first 2 weeks in May to help my sister La Donna while the Forsgrens bring their third baby into the world. We had lots of fun: Mariah and Piper {not quite} getting along, sightseeing Decorah, and of course, waiting for baby!

Here are some picture highlights of the trip:

Welcome Baby Boy Forsgren!

Here are a few of the first pictures of Layne and La Donna's newest addition (name to come shortly), born today at 10:53am. He weighs 8lbs 15oz, measures 21 inches long. Mommy and baby are both doing great, just resting. I'm in Iowa watching their other kids, we're having lots of fun!

Baby Boy is baby #19 from my siblings' children. A very exciting day!

Spring Break 2011: Oregon Day 2

We started off the day with breakfast/lunch at my mom's house in Independence. Here is Brian cooking in the kitchen. We went through way too much bacon :)

Spring Break 2011: Oregon Day 1

Because our schedule will be crazy this year with new baby, we thought we would make a trip to Oregon during Brian's spring break from school. And luckily, it fell on Easter weekend! We initially planned the trip to take two driving days (LA to Salem is 15 hours), stopping in northern California. But last minute, we decided to just wake up early and see how far we could drive before Mariah goes crazy. She was SOOO good in the car! we only stopped twice for gas/food, and she kept herself entertained with movies on the iPad.

On the first full day of our trip, we went with my sister Tina to the Salem Riverfront Carousel. It was so fun.

Spring Break 2011: Mariah Makes Cookies

For Easter, Brian's mom got Mariah a super-cute apron so she could help us cook in the kitchen.

Here she is mixing (and probably eating) the batter.

We're Having a Baby and It's a ...

Sweet little GIRL!!

{here's the proof}

General Conference Weekend Fun

The LDS church holds a semi-annual conference for all its members called General Conference. It's a weekend filled with inspired talks given by our church's leadership. All church members (and non-members) are encouraged to watch (on-line, at church buildings, or, if you're lucky, at home on the BYU-TV channel).

Since it is so important, we treat the weekend like a holiday. We have special traditions held only for this weekend so we can teach Mariah to look forward to this time. I wanted to share a few of these traditions with you:

Disneyland March 2010

I have been on a 3-month hiatus from blogging. I'm so sorry to all 3 of the readers of this blog :) But don't fret, I'm working on a massive update (which I will just post-date and act like I was updating this whole time...). Here's a little post to tie you over until all that is online.