gotta love your friends!

Ugh! The Cardinals lost and the Cubbies won so we had to sing the silly Cubs song...

"you're just jealous the Cards don't have a song," Alesa proudly jabs when I say how dumb I think the song is :)

It was a great day ladies & it was good catching up on your lives!

Love ya!

family Miller time

This past Sunday our Miller family got together to celebrate one of Arlan's four 1st cousin's-Janelle and the arrival of her & her husband Brent's firstborn sometime in late November. Chaos really doesn't begin to sum it up all that well but it is quite crazy & fun to see everyone together...thanks Aunt T for hosting!

the below pictures were taken the weekend before when I went up to a Cubs-Cards game with some friends & Haven stayted back with Daddy at Grandma's...cousin Charlee came to play!

Friday's Funny

so excited....

well, IT happened...Wednesday evening while I was getting Haven's tub ready, she peeled into the bathroom ready for her tub...literally, this girl hears water running wherever she's at in the house & at top speed, turbo crawls into the upstairs bathroom even helping helping herself out of her clothes when you start pulling, twisting, etc...she'll even step out of her pants for you :)

Her Dad got her completely naked & while checking the water temperature, I notice she has the smile on her face & is exhaling a lady-like sigh...she was so excited for her bath, she peed all over the bathroom floor :)

there are worst things, I suppose :) oh Haven...gotta love her!

she's walking :)

almost 11 months old & she has taken LOTS of steps!

and busy shopping while my Daddy & Grandpa watch football :)



and last, who's more excited...? us or Haven?

pumpkin festival memory

Haven attended her first Pumpkin Festival in Morton last Thursday [before we headed out of town to WI]. Imagine Artists [operated by a good friend of mine, Taryn Kaiser] here in Morton was running a special, so we couldn't help but capture the moment-great job ladies!

a day at Tanner's

Ahh, now that it is officially Fall, I waited a mere one day before I packed up Toodlebugs and headed off to Speer to visit one of my favorite places in Central IL, Tanner's Orchards. It was an unusually warm, windy day but Haven, myself and "Aunt" Holly had quite the time nonetheless!

Our little Punkers amidst the Pumpkins...this is how she got her nickname as a mere 10.5 months ago, I thought I was doomed to deliver on Halloween night, thus we called her Pumpkin & then I turned it into Punkers...to this day, Arlan's really not a HUGE fan of the nickname :)

Punkers thought she was quite "big-stuff" playing on the playground with the big kids.

Haven wasn't necessarily a fan of the goats, as we arrived fairly early and these trained goats got very excited (aka hungry) to see visitors.

Haven in the funny mirror...she thought this looked more interesting than the goats!

"Aunt Holly" and Punkers

Friday's Funny

A blast from the past...one of the very first garden parties we hosted ended with a trick being played on Brent...it was great!