Procrastinator....

This is what I am. Allen and I are doing a marriage class every Friday night for eight weeks and we have yet to finish a lesson before thursday night. Well, our evenings have been crazy this week and it is Friday afternoon and we are still not done. I don't want you to think I am not taking this class seriously because it has been great but it is very hard to do all the book work when that is not what you are used to. Anyway, it's not nap time yet so I can't even attempt reading when they are awake. That just frustrates everyone which is not what you want to be when doing homework on trying to improve your marriage. lol!
I procrastinate on so much more but it will just be depressing if I go through and name them all so let's just say it is something I need to work on. lol!
Speaking of that I should probably get up and clean the kitchen from lunch. Have a great afternoon!

It's a BOY!

We found out this last Friday the our third child will be a boy! He was not shy and wanted everyone to know that he was a boy. lol!
I thought he was going to be a boy but still had it in my head that it will probably be another girl so it was exciting. He was moving like crazy and is already 14 oz. which is pretty big for a 20 weeker so he may be a big boy. I bought a newborn sleeper for him yesterday so I hope he will at least fit into that for a couple weeks. He have no idea on a name yet but haven't really tried. We are taking a trip in March to Missouri and will have tons of time in the car so we will try and figure it out then. Until then any name suggestions will be taken and considered because we have nothing. I better head to bed so I will update soon.

I'm glad you can't see me right now

So I have had a cold the last three days and it has been really hard to get some sleep because of the cough and stuffy nose. Since I am pregnant my choices in medication are pretty nonexistent so I have to improvise. I was not real tired anyway because of the excitement of our ultrasound tomorrow so I thought I would stay up and google ways to stop my cough and stuffy nose from natural things we have around the house. here is what I came up with.

cough: I only tried one thing since I didn't have a lot of the other stuff. I made hot tea and put lemon and honey in it. This doesn't seem to weird except I hate flavorings in my tea so to me this is gross but since my nose it stuffy I can't taste anything anyway so I went for it. Although this just started it does seem to be helping but that might just be because I am sitting up. When I was laying in bed it was really bad. Time will tell.

stuffy nose: My first try was acupressure. While pressure points have never seemed to work before but I was really desperate. So the verdict is that is does NOT work and just wastes time. Moving on to the next thing that told me to stick my head in a freezer for 5 minutes and only breathing through my nose. I would have tried this but there was no way I could breath through my nose at all. Then at the bottom it said that you could just put an ice cube on your nose. That is were I am now and I CAN BREATH! Granted it is just one nostril that is clear but I will take it. I will have to let you all know soon if it actually lasts after the ice is taken off but I consider it a success! (ps. My nose got clear so I started tasting my tea which was not a good thing. lol!)
Wow, this has been a really pointless post but you might find it helpful one of these nights.
Iwill let you know tomorrow how the doctors appt. goes. night!

Happy Valentines Day!

Today was a great Valentines Day! After realizing only yesterday that V-Day was Saturday I sorta panicked since it was my year to plan and I had nothing. After realizing the crowds would be bad around dinner time if we went out I decided to just cook a full meal at home and hang out for dinner. We got ready slowly this morning and played around until lunch time and then we went to a pizza place in town for lunch that was awesome. I had ordered reular crust and they brought me thin crust so they let me keep the thin crust and brought me a regular crust also. It was great! Allen of course had to comment how bad it looked that I had two pizzas in front of me plus the girls pizza that I was cutting up for them. It did look pretty bad I guess.lol! Don't worry because when we left I had a pizza and a half to bring home with us so we get leftovers tomorrow! We came home and Allen and the girls took a nap and I went to the store to get some thing for dinner. After dinner Allen entertained the kids while I cleaned up and gave them a bath which is so nice of him. It was a great day but I am worn out. Hopefully I can get a lot of sleep tonight. I will leave you with some cute pictures from our Valentines Day. I hope you all had great day also!

My Babies!

This is supposed to be for my first but I will do it for both my kids

Let's see how much you remember!

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED?1) Yes, it took two months of trying, 2) We just were not being careful but we were going to start the next month.

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? 1)Yes 2)Yes

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? I was very excited for both my kids!

4. HOW OLD WERE YOU? 1)21 2)23

5. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? I can't even count how many test I took with both of them. lol!

6. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? 1)Allen 2)Brittany and then I surprised Allen when he got home from work

7. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? 1)yes! 2)Yes but she had her legs crossed the whole time so she was a surprise.

8. DUE DATE? 1) Oct. 2, 2005 2) July 18, 2007

9. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? 1) 8 weeks through 14 weeks 2) 10 weeks through 18 weeks

10. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? 1) I craved fruit and peanut putter crackers. 2) I craved anything unhealthy. lol!

11. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? With both it was peoples inappropriate comments to me.

12. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX? 1) girl 2)girl

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? 1) No 2) No

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? 1) 29 pounds 2) 40 pounds! lol!

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? 1) yes, I got four showers. One in Edmond OK from Church, Edmond OK from work, West Plains MO, and Altus OK. 2) I had one baby shower at Great Falls MT.

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? I knew with all of them

18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? Luckily I didn't have anything go wrong during my pregnancies.

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? 1) Jackson County Hospital in Altus OK 2)Benefis in Great Falls MT

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? 1) 12 HOURS 2) 4.5 HOURS

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE BIRTHPLACE? 1) Allen 2)Allen

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? 1) Allen and my sister Angela 2) Allen

23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? 1)natural 2) natural

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? 1) yes 2) Yes

27. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 1) 8lbs. 10oz 2) 8lbs. 1oz.

28. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN? 1) Oct. 6 2005 at 12:47pm 2) July 23 2007 at 4:11am

30. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? 1) Devin Elizabeth Miller 2) Isabel Sarah Miller

31. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? 1) 3.5 years old 2) 18 months

This is Devin at a couple days old

Devin at 3 years 4 months



This is Isabel at one day old


This is Isabel at 18 months

At least I tried...

So Isabel hair has been coming in so slowly but it is getting a lot longer so today I thought I would try and see if it could stay in a pony tail. The pony tail was on top of her head of course and hardly visible since her hair is so short but I got it to stay in! I took a picture but you do have to strain to see it. I will try and get a better one after her nap. I was just excited that I can finally put bows in her hair!! lol!

She was not real happy during the picture.


Devin wanted her picture taken also so here she is!

A productive weekend

Allen had a long weekend this week so that was a lot of fun. He made some shelves to put around the house so that was really exciting so we can organize movies and some things in the girls room. I didn't even know how cluttered our house was until we went through the stuff to put on the shelves. I was also able to clean almost the entire house with Allen helping to play with the girls and he shampooed our rug. It really needed that! Other then that we just hung out as a family which doesn't seem to happen often enough. Here are a couple pictures of us hanging out.

Devin and Isabel getting ready for a game of candyland. Isabel just holds the cards but Devin is doing really well at it.



This is all girls hanging out after dinner. I made pudding and the girls LOVED it!

So...I guess I'm not real good at this

I have tried to keep a blog for the last 3 and a half years and if you look back I don't have a very good track record of keeping up with it. So once again I am going to give it another shot and we will see how long it last this time. Isabel had her 18 month appt today and the doctor said she looked perfect. They have a big mirror by the exam table so Isabel just watched the whole exam by looking in the mirror and smiling at herself. She weighs 22 lbs 12oz (8th percentile), length is 29.6 in. (10th percentile) and her head is in the 50th percentile. lol! Devin got to weigh herself also and she is still weighing in at 32 pounds. The only thing the doctor said about Isabel is that her communication skills are a little behind so we are going to try some speech therapy and hopefully after a little bit of that she will be all caught up. Her first session will be Feb. 13th so I will let everyone know how that goes.
Devin is doing great and turning into such a big girl and always wants to be helping. She does gymnastics once a week and loves it. It's so much fun to see her face when she does a new skill and is just so proud of herself. I will have to take pictures and post them after her class tomorrow. We have been working with her on writing her name and she is pretty close to getting it. She likes doing it for about 10 minutes but her attention span makes it hard after that. She takes after me in that department. lol!
Our big news right now is that we are expecting our third child on July 9th. We will find out in a little less then 4 weeks what the sex of the baby will be. The baby seems to be doing really well even though it likes to hide when it they try and find it's heartbeat but that means I get an ultrasound each time so that is nice. In the last ultrasound at 16 weeks our midwife didn't look but I thought I might have seen something between it's legs so we might have a boy this time. I guess we will see.
Well, this has ended up being pretty long so I will update you all soon.

My new baby is..........

Very modest. It keep it's legs crossed the entire ultrasound so we have no idea if it's a boy or girl. It is however very healthy and looks perfect which is the most important thing. Devin and Allen were there with me and Devin was not impressed. She was just mad that she could not come up on the table with me. I think I will probably cave and get another ultrasound but we will see. I was excited it would be a surprise for about half a day and now I am just annoyed that I can't get things together. We will see. I won't do it without Allen and he will be gone for another month and a half so we will see then. He wants it a surprise now but he told me it was up to me. He is so sweet!
I will update the ultrasound pictures soon but I am having trouble with the scanner so who knows when. We also updated some more pictures of Devin so everyone can see how grown up she is getting. I will try to update more. Bye!

Hey!

Well, I know that I hardly ever write on here anymore but at least I try to update pictures which is what everyone looks at anyway. We have been enjoying snow on and off since the day after Thanksgiving which is so much fun but We can't really go outside very much since the high is -1. The low was -22! It is insanely cold and I just don't understand how people chose to live here during the winter! I am really missing Oklahoma about right now.
Devin is doing great. She is so independent and wants to do everything herself which is good but also sad. She is growing up so fast! The big news this month is that Allen and I are expecting our 2nd baby this coming July. I am 7 weeks as of tomorrow. We are so excited and ask you all to keep us in your prayers that everything will go perfectly. I will try to post more often but until then I will update you all with some more pictures. Bye

I'm back!

Ok, so it has been a really long time so I have a lot to update you on. We are now in Great Falls Montana. It has been an adjustment from Oklahoma! It snowed here on Saturday but got back up in the high 60's yesterday. The Mountains now have a lot more snow on them and they are so beautiful! They only have one church of christ here so that is really nice and the people are so nice! They have a lot of specials classes through out the week so it already keeps us busy. We were asked to be life group co-leaders so that will start up soon.
Devin is growing up so fast and will be one in a few weeks. We will have a little party here so she will have some cake for the first time so that will be fun.
We are going to Glacier National Park the weekend of the 28th so that will nice to get so see the mountains better. We haven't had a lot of time to look around since we have been here so it's exciting. That's all I can think of for now so I'll write more later. Bye.

Our first trip to urgent care!

On Saturday Allen Devin and I were at my Grandparents house just hanging out. Everyone was watching Devin stand holding on to the ottoman and paying with some toys. Well I had given her a cup coaster to play with and she was using it as a chew toy. I know right now you are probably saying "why would you give her a coaster" but I didn't think anything that bad could come from it. Anyway, I was about fall asleep in the chair by the ottoman when I hear Allen yell out my name and then I see Devin falling into my leg. She kept the coaster in her mouth all the way down and it cut her lip when she hit. I picked her up and she started to scream. We saw she was bleeding and Allen took her into the bathroom over the sink. Grandma had gotten a cold rag and we blotted the blood away. By this time she was already starting to calm down and even cheer up. The bleeding stopped rather quickly. We could see the cut, it wasn't very long but it looked deep. I felt so bad, and didn't want her to be hurt more than what was noticeable. So, we decided to take her to the urgent care clinic. The receptionists was trying to be light hearted and tell us that it was only the first of many trips. I was occasionally still breaking into tears. Allen said Devin handled the whole thing better than us. The doctor said it was minor, no stitches and it would be healed in a couple of days. So we took her home and changed her clothes. She has keep on like it never happened.

Missouri Trip

Well last week I went to Missouri to see my family with Angela. It was so great to see everyone. The trip up there was pretty good. It went a lot faster then I thought it would traveling with two babies. We got to my parents house Tuesday night. Only my dad was there since mom was still in St. Louis so he had dinner ready when we got there. We stayed In West Plains till Friday when mom called and said the doctor told her she could go home for the memorial day weekend. We were so excited so Angela and me loaded up the kid and drove the three hours to St. Louis. It took us close to four hours having to stop and feed the babies once. Anyway we got there and saw the house my mom has been staying in. It's called the hope lodge and it is for adult cancer patients. We met a couple of the residents but most had already left for the long weekend. It's a nice place and were glad she gets to stay there. After a hour or so we started heading back to West Plains with mom. I had the great job of sitting in the back with the babies sticking Elliot's pacifier back in every minute and entertaining Devin who was quite sick of sitting in her car seat. We made it though and mom was so happy to be home even though it was just for the weekend. We left on Monday to come back and dad took mom back to St. Louis. It was so sad to leave and everyone was crying but we are praying that mom will get to come home soon and we will be able to visit more often. Thanks for keeping her in your prayers!

4 Years!

So today is mine and Allen's 4 year wedding anniversary! I can't believe we have been married for 4 years. It seems like we just got married. Unfortunately we don't have any plans for tonight because Allen will be in class all day and has to study all night but we are going to try and go out to eat and watch a movie this Saturday. Hopefully we can find a babysitter so we can have a evening to ourselves which has not happened in a long time. Or at least it seems that way.
Devin is still not crawling but is starting to try to pull up on things. She gets to her knees and then falls over or gives up. She will get it soon I think. She is getting more of an attitude every day!
Sorry this is so short but I don't have much to report. Bye!

Well I made it through my wisdom teeth surgery! It was not near as bad as I had thought it might be. the first couple hours after surgery were awful but then I felt a lot better. I never thought I could get sick of mashed potatoes but that is what has happened. oh well. Luckily the pain hasn't been that horrible so I have only taken Tylenol so after waiting two days I can start breastfeeding Devin again. I think that was the worst part of the whole thing.
Other then that things have been pretty good around here. The president landed at our base on Saturday while he spoke at OSU so that was neat. He didn't stay but for a second so we didn't see him in person but he saw his helicopter fly away from the base. We went to the flight line to maybe see Air Force One but they had that part of the base blocked off so we couldn't see anything. It was still exciting though.
Well Devin just woke up from her nap so I'll talk more later. Bye!

Wow it's been a long time..

Hey! I can't sleep tonight and i thought I maybe should update my blog so here I am. Well the biggest news I have is that I became an aunt on april the 14th! My sister had a little boy named Elliot Russell and he weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces. He is so handsome and I love him so much! We went up to Oklahoma City today just for a little bit for his baby shower so that was a lot of fun.
Devin is still growing like crazy and at her 6 month check up she weighed 17 pounds 3 ounces! I'm sure by now she is pushing 18 pounds. She is so much fun and loves to stick everything in her mouth. While I was at the dentist last week Allen informed me that she can fit two of her socks in her mouth. I'm so proud. She can roll over now but chooses not to and just cry and lift her arms out when she wants to move or wants a toy out of reach. We are still working on the crawling thing but that will be tricky since she seems to have no desire to crawl at all. She will find it useful sometime soon though (we hope).
Allen is in pilot training and starts the actual flying part next week so keep us all in your prayers since he will have 12 hour days plus all the studying he has to do when he gets home. He will be exhausted but it will all be worth it soon. I am getting my wisdom teeth taken out Friday so that should be interesting. I am a little nerves because I have never been under anesthesia before but I keep telling myself everything will be fine. And it will be.
Also keep my mom in your prayers. She has gotten a stem cell transplant and everything looks good so far but it takes awhile to know if it will take for sure. Thanks!

Doctor Appt. Today

Well Devin had her 4 month check up today and she is doing great! She now weighs 14 pounds and is 24 inches long. She is in the 50 precentile on all her stats so everything is loooking good. She was all smiling at the nurse while she weighed her and got all her measurements but as soon as she took her temperature using the ear thermometer Devin just started screaming! It was awful! I guess it scared her or something. She had calmed down though by the time the doctor came in. Her doctor of course had to make a comment on her huge double chin but who could blame him.
After we left the doctors office we went to get her shots done at another part of the building and she had fallen asleep by this time. The nurse called us in and we laid her on the table and she started to wake up a little and then wahm! she got three shots before she knew what was happening. Let me tell you, she was not happy about this rude awakening. After a few seconds in her daddys arms she forget about it though. She was just ready for some food after that point which was not the best thing because they were having a drill on base right when we got out of the appt. so we were stuck in the building. Finally one of the people over seeing the drill told us we didnt have to stay because we had the baby. So that was our exciting morning at the doctor. I'll write more soon! Bye!

February

Wow! I cant believe it is already February! I can't wait until Valentines Day. We don't usually make a huge deal of Valentines Day but there are presents exchanged which is always a good thing! Yesterday Allen and I went to a informational meeting about moving in the Air Force. It was exciting learning about everything and I really wish we had known all this the first time we moved but what can you do? You can have the Air Force move you or you can move yourself and get paid for it. We dont have all that much stuff so we are going to move ourselves again. When the Air Force moves you should have a inventory of all your things and video tape them in working condition because if it breaks on the way and the movers didn't see it working like a T.V. then they can say they didn't break it. Its crazy! It would take so much work but I guess you should have all that stuff anyway incase of a burglary or fire. Anyway, one of the things about when you are moving is if you have children you can get 20 hours of child care free. We could not take Devin to the meeting and all our friends I thought were going to the meeting also so Allen got all the paper work done and we had a lady on base watch Devin for those 2 hours. It was kind of scary since I had never meet this lady before but we went to her house and she was very nice. Devin is very good with other people so of course she didn't mind and it all went well. The lady told me when we went to pick Devin up that when she took Devins bottle away for a second to wipe her mouth she let out a awful scream. I laughed and informed her that it is perfectly normal when something comes between Devin and her food.
more to come soon. Bye!

i'm back

Sorry about that last post. I started it and I got distracted doing other things and forgot about it so Allen thought it would be funny to post it when he got home. Anyway, the most exciting thing happening here is how big Devin is getting! She is now getting close to four months and it doesnt seem possible! She is doing so many new things. Yesterday at church I was showing some people how she can roll over from her stomach to her back and i forgot they have a very thin carpet in the nursery so of course she hit her head on the ground (barely I might add) and she got so mad at me.She would finally calm down only to remember she had hit her head a couple minutes later. She already doesnt get over things easily which I am sorry to admit is one of my bad traits. Hopefully we can break her of that.
Allen is doing great with his job in the Air Force right now. He got his private pilots license all finished up and we will be moving to Enid Ok towards the end of March. I am excited for the move. The only thing I dread is unpacking the boxes. I actually love boxing things up which is weird. My Grandparents live in Enid so they seem to be counting down the days until we arrive. As happy as they will be to see me and Allen more often I think we take second place when it comes to Devin. I know thats how it should be though.
Well I should go get some things done but before I go I want to ask for a prayer request. As most of you know my mother has been dealing with leukemia for a long time now and now they are finally getting ready to do a bone marrow transplant for her. It will not happen for at least three more weeks but I want everyone to keep her in their prayers during this time. She is the best mom anyone could have. Thank you! I will write again soon!

finally an update!

I know I have been kind of lazy about updating so I will try to do better about this.