And my head is still spinning

I can't believe it's already over. What a wonderful holiday it's been. Filled with LOTS of visitors, loads of fun, new toys and lots of love. Santa came to our house and brought everything for the family SportyB had asked for: KingB - Superman undies like SportyB; QueenB - pencils; SportyB - Hot Wheels race track; BabyB - ballerina slippers. Thank you Santa it was magic in his eyes that morning when he saw it all with his cookies/milk and carrots for the reindeer all gone. Here are some fast photos and then I'm off to bed:

We wore these reindeer antlers and she wouldn't take her eyes off them. It was cute

The kids got jammies on Christmas Eve and here is a photo with them in their new sleepers

SportyB kept putting the antlers on his sister - I grabbed the camera fast.. she was still a mess from dinner.

SportyB always seems to entertain himself and his sister.. Here he found his sunglasses and came and got me to take some pictures of them.

Merry Belated Christmas from our Family to yours. I hope you had a good holiday and it was filled with love and joy.

Be safe this New Years and have a Happy one

Holidays - Looney Style

Do you ever wonder if the craziness around the holidays make people feel they should be admitted? (I probably shouldn't joke) but I think I've become border holiday looney (no comments honey). So with the madness of getting ready for the holidays on top of the every day business of things I often feel I'm loosing my mind (no comments honey). We are talking LOONEY-TOONS LOONEY - just call me Daffy Duck would ya.. for work we had a holiday luncheon last week and I was going to make a pie.. a 3 ingredient pie.. very simple right?!? Right! So since it's only 3 ingredients I can remember them, right?! So KingB was stopping by Publix and asked if I needed anything - ohh yes, please pick up sour cream and 1 lrg box instant vanilla pudding and graham cracker crust (already had the coconut at home). When I get home, I find my ingredients X2 (cause he wanted me to make one for him as well). So after we get the kids down I start my SIMPLE 3 ingredient pie... stirring, stirring - hmmm something doesn't seem right. (sad to even admit this but) pulled out my instructions.. yeah I have everything.. hmm wonder what's wrong, something isn't right here.. Clump it in the pie crust.. what in the world did I do wrong with my SIMPLE 3 ingredient pie.. pulled out my instructions again.. (yeah so sad to admit it not once but twice!) - with trying to spread it over the pie crust it broke in 5+ places.. so discourage I opened the trash and in it went and sat myself on the couch discouraged ....... heard KingB in the fridge and said 'honey where is the pie?' grrrrrrrrr.. So last night (a week later mind you) out of the BLUE it hit me! S.M.A.C.K - DUH I forgot the crushed pineapple - the main ingredient to the 2minute Hawaiian pie.. and yes it clearly says it on the directions as one of the 3 ingredients... ahhh loven the holidays. But I bet I never forget the ingredients to that easy pie again.. well not this year anyway :)

Weekend Recap

We had yet another busy interesting weekend. SportyB is playing winter soccer and we got his team photos back. He loves to play but we have to work on getting him in there to get the ball. He likes to run on the out skirts of all the action. It's fun to watch though. He had to play goal for a few and didn't really like that. He wanted to be out on the field with all the action. His team is doing well, they've had two games and have won them both - Go Lions!

QueenB went to the doctor for an ear infection.. nice just what I need around the holidays. Got all my holiday shopping done YEAH and have everything wrapped.. now it's time to prep the house for company. I think KingB finished his shopping too and wrapped his own gifts (nice!). SportyB loves when we wrap as he gets to place them all under the tree and he gets excited when he sees his name on them.

Bargaining at it's finest by a 4 year old "daddy, I won't let mommy know you gave me coke if we go swimming tonight" - needless to say there was no swimming but daddy told on himself as he thought it was funny and wanted to know where he learned it.. wasn't me :)

Tis' the season - to be busy

This year for teacher gifts we made candies.. yummy candies. So this past Sunday we spent most of the day in our PJs and got started. First we made Fudge (thank you Jenn for the recipe) and white chocolate peppermint candy hearts (thank you Linda for the recipe)... SportyB loves to help in the kitchen and really enjoyed being the mixer

Of course everyone needs a supervisor while working in the kitchen, so here is ours

And here is part of our final product that SportyB proudly took to school for his teachers.

Picture Tag

Well I've been tagged (kind of) by Suz as she tagged everyone and that includes me I guess.

The object of the picture tag is to:

1) Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer

2) Select the 4th picture in the folder

3) Explain the picture

4) Tag 4 people to do the same NO CHEATING! (cropping, editing, etc!)

And here was mine.....

A Family Photo back in January 2008 (sorry BabyB, you were still in my tummy)

We had gone to Jacksonville for Ryan/Jeannie's Wedding and before we headed back we decided to take SportyB to the zoo.. it was kind of cold that day, can you tell. We still had a lot of fun

And I tag Jenn, Rhonda, Gretchen and Heather.. :)

Hey have you visited?

Let's start by saying a special Thank You to those that leave me comments - they are fun to receive and I enjoy knowing you've stopped by to check out what's been going on..

I started this blog a few months ago even with my lack of creative writing (or just writing in general as English was not by strong subject) under the pressure of my sister saying 'will you just do it already, it's easy and fun and it will help everyone keep updated on things'. So I did and have enjoyed it (even though I still suck at creative writing so I'm probably boring all my FORCED readers to tears, or into a sleepy daze or wondering what else they could be doing right at this very moment). I follow a few blogs myself and try to check them often (see my list of 'blogs I stalk') and leave them comments to let them know I was there.. I mean I could tell them all day that I visit but they wouldn't really KNOW unless I leave a comment, right?? (following me here?) Now it might not be much maybe even just a "AHHH how cute" with my name attached of course, but I'm currently not feeling the love from... well we will just say 'SOME' of my followers..

So let's talk about comments as maybe you just need some guidance or directions: you know it's the little button down at the bottom right of EVERY post - so after you read each post you are SUPPOSE to click on it and leave your thoughts (hopefully nice, good or even funny thoughts) ..

I often find when talking to friends or family and I ask 'hey, do you read/follow our blog?' they usually say 'Yes' and it is the response I'm hoping for but they never leave comments.. Or sometimes I will get an email talking about the post which is fun but they never leave comments.. Or sometimes they will volunteer that they've been here by bringing it up in conversation but they never leave comments... hmmmmm I can't help to wonder why.. Is it scary to hit that little button down there, I promise nothing will jump out of the screen.. is it like raising your hand in the classroom to ask a question you are afraid of asking?? I promise I will not make fun..

Are you feeling like I'm talking to you directly here? lol

So to those of you that are reading/following ... let us know......

BY LEAVING comments..

regardless if you are a secret follower or a known follower.. we like comments - can't you tell?



P.S Mr/Mrs Anonymous - leave your name so we know it was you..

OH Christmas Tree Oh Christmas tree..

How lovely are your branches... we got it done.. We have added SportyB's Thomas train around the bottom and a few more ornaments at the top and the tree topper will go up tonight. Notice most of the decorations are towards the bottom - SportyB was our main decorator. We saw Santa on Saturday and got family pictures done as well.

Tis' the season to be jolly - just don't forget it!

6Mo Today

Hard to believe that our little girl is 6mo today. Time sure does fly that's for sure. We had our 6mo check up earlier this week and she weighed 13lbs 12oz and was 26 5/8 inches long. We have been trying all kinds of stage 1 foods and so far it does NOT seem like she is going to be a picky eater (we all know she gets that from her mom). We've had bananas, applesauce, sweet potato's, peas, green beans, carrots, pears, prunes and even avocado. We are currently still working on sleeping through the night as she is waking up AGAIN (can you see my sleepy-eyed frustration). She pretty much has a schedule during the day which is nice. We are working on sitting up and she's been doing really good.. She loves her bath time too. Her current favorite toys are: silver rattle and a crinkle book. She's a people watcher and pays attention to everything her big brother does. She has also started tucking her legs up under her bottom. Here are a few photos taken last night - enjoy and hope everyone is doing well.
Here she is sitting up playing with her toy with a grip on mommies finger

You might say I caught her off guard in this one, looks like she is catching flies

We currently don't have ankles, lol love me some baby rolls

We are currently teething so it's a constant drool drip, I'm sure if we put a bucket under there we could water the plants. She loves chewing on fingers and yes, any within reach will do.

She's been laughing and smiling a lot more - although you can't tell by these pictures. She likes making raspberries too and started doing them while eating the other night.. nice!

Christmas on Turkey Day

Since Grammie and Other G-ma were up for Turkey Day we decided to do our Christmas at the same time as they wanted to see the kids open the presents and hey, who doesn't like more then one Christmas. We had told SportyB that we would do Christmas after we cleaned up the kitchen after we ate our dinner - this was to avoid the constant 'can we do Christmas? When are we going to do Christmas? Can we open presents?' and I must say it worked rather well. He said after breakfast 'mama we are doing Christmas after we eat and after we clean the kitchen right?' and I reassured him that was when we were doing it. So we enjoyed our meal and we were sitting around the table visiting with our company and talking and SportyB politely asked if were were still doing Christmas after we cleaned the kitchen, I replied yes and he said 'can you please stop talking so we can clean the kitchen' LOL we got a kick out of it but also got in gear. While we were cleaning the kitchen he sat in the middle of the living room by the presents and waited.. SportyB made out this year as he got to open his sisters presents too.. but of course he found all the ones with his name on it and made sure to open them first.. then he helped everyone else.

Here is is showing Samone her present that she got from Grammie.


He got the transformer movie and it came with his mask - he's watched his movie everyday since. We can't wait for the second one to come out
Did you know that is snowed in Florida?? SportyB got a cool travel luggage and it came completely packaged with TONS of packing peanuts.. so KingB thought it would be fun to pour them all over. SportyB had a blast and even helped clean them all up.
Thank you Grammie and Other G-ma for all our presents and help around the house. The kids enjoyed your visit and look forward to the next one.

Turkey Day Part 2

During the morning while all the yummy food was cooking I got out my camera and took some photos of everyone. Here is the cook (aka KingB) and well.. just QueenB Here are the kids right before we ate
Here is G-ma Izzie (aka Other G-ma as SportyB calls her) and the kids
Here is Mimi and the kiddos
And here is Grammie and the kiddos
We were very speedy with the camera and the switching of the people cause you never know when you are going to miss out on that smile or have it turn into a crying frown. Can't you just picture it.. ok switch (in high pitch voices) BabyB.. BabyB look here.. over here *click* was that a good one, did it turn out.. ok switch (in high pitch voices BabyB.. BabyB look over here.. BabyB (you know as if we were getting the attention of an animal or something.. lol) we all were laughing at ourselves, but hey whatever works..

Turkey Day Part 1

We had a wonderful day - we hosted Turkey Day at our house and KingB's mom and g-ma came up from down south and my mom came over for the day. We enjoyed cooking and chatting during the day. KingB did all the cooking and he times it all so well that when it's eating time, EVERYTHING is warm and fresh out of the oven. I just stay out of the way and help prep (& make the desserts Hawaiian Pie and Carmel Apple Cheesecake - YUM). It's better for everyone this way.. lol I think he enjoys it anyway and my tummy enjoys it too. Here is my center piece, I think it's so cute :)

Here are the kids together on Turkey Day

Here is SportyB helping Grammie make her eggs

SportyB couldn't stay out of the kitchen he wanted in all the action and here he is helping daddy with the turkey.

Here is a photo of the BMiller family on Turkey Day 2008. It took several shots before we got a good one as BabyB kept looking all around.. but I'm glad we finally got one, well kind of as she still isn't really looking.

To Be Thankful

This Turkey Day Season I made it my mission to ask the MillerB Family what they are thankful for and here are their responses:

KingB is thankful for: family, friends and health

QueenB is thankful for: my family and all the wonderful memories we are creating each day. My job as it allows me to care for my family. My mom/dad for bringing me into this world. My sister and all her trips to FL. My In-Law-Family for always making me feel apart of them. My friends as they are always there in time of need and I never have to ask.

SportyB is thankful for: Rain, sun, beautiful butterflies & moths, beautiful pond at Mimi's house, mommy/daddy & BabyB, dragonflies, beautiful flowers even mommy's red roses, digging and getting dirty, presents that Santa gives me, cool helicopters & jet planes & hot wheel cars.

BabyB is thankful for: Food, care and love that my mommy and daddy give me. Having a brother who loves me so much. Nap time and bath time.

KittyB is thankful for: The days SportyB doesn't put me in the toilet and when SportyB brushes his teeth or washes his hands so I can drink from the faucet.

DoggieB's is thankful for: When SportyB gives us treats or when mommy/daddy leave the pantry door open and we can get them ourselves. When we can sneak into the laundry room and have kitty crunchies fresh out of the box.

What are you thankful for this holiday season?

Happy Turkey Day to all -

Last Game Upon Us

With the college football season winding to an end and my lack of posting these days or should I say lack of time to post I thought I'd through this one out there in hopes that I can get back in the spirit of posting or should I say have time to post...

FOOTBALL AND THE BLONDE......
Out of all the blonde jokes, this one has to be the best! Football FINALLY makes sense..........
A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game. They had great seats
right behind their team's bench. After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience. 'Oh, I really liked it,' she replied, 'especially the tight pants and all the big muscles,
but I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents!Dumbfounded, her date asked, 'What do you mean?''Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game,
all they kept screaming was: 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!'
I'm like...Helloooooooooooooo? It's only 25 freaking cents!!!!!!

T.oes G.o I.n F.irst

Ok so I got a little paranoid with one of Rhonda's post (Think before you post) and decided to change the names of our family. With the help of my sister (Thank you Jenn) we are now known as KingB (aka daddy), QueenB (aka Mommy), SportyB (aka our little boy) and BabyB (aka our little girl - which may have to change someday when she isn't a baby anymore but for now.. she is baby bee). So there are our official blog names and for a recent picture that I love love love here are the kiddos

You mess'en with me

We have a cat, (Samone) a cat that I brought into the marriage that King Bee tolerates but he claims he is allergic. This cat is the cat of all cats, she's the best with Sporty Bee. When Sporty Bee is staying the night somewhere she meow's and meOW's and MEOW'S looking for him, they play hide and seek together (seriously), they follow each other around and this cat tolerates everything a 4yr boy does to this poor cat (no animals are hurt during this process). Here are a few pictures taken in Nov '06 of the two.

Don't they just look cute together.. so the other night after the kids are in bed I go into the 1/2 bathroom (no lights) and squish... WET socks.. YEEEEUUUUUUUUUU, hurry and flip the light on to see 'a liquid' all over the floor. Not being able to figure out what it was - I go get a rag and clean it up and ask King Bee if he knew what happend in the bathroom he said 'no, maybe it was the cat' (cause everything to blame is the cats fault) ?!?! the cat, how could it be the cat, there was water everywhere... a little later King Bee comes out of our bedroom and said 'it has to be the cat, there are wet spots in our bedroom carpet'... hmmm I had thought maybe the toilet over flowed or something but with the wet spots he might be on to something.. so the next day, on our way home after picking up Sporty Bee from school, our conversation goes a little something like this

Mom: Sporty Bee do you know what happend in the hall bathroom last night? There was water all over, did you have an accident?

Sporty Bee: Ummm no, I did not have an accident.

Mom: Well if there was no accident, what happend?

Sporty Bee: Well you see, I was in the bathroom and Samone (the cat) stepped on my toe with her sharp claws so I threw her in the toilet (very calm and sweet as if it's an everyday thing).

Mom: WHAT?!?! you put the cat in the toilet?

Sporty Bee: Yup, she stepped on me with her sharp claw, so I put her in the toilet..

So lesson learned here - don't step on Sporty Bee's toes or your bound to end up in toilet water..

Beach or Bust

Get comfy it's gonna be a long post:
With the first snow fall of the season leaving 4ft on the Midwest I thought it would be a PERFECT day to finally publish my beach weekend post that we took a few weekends back. King Bee had some work to do and I got to see some old friend while we were over there. I had taken two days off work so it was a nice/RELAXING weekend.. (if you can actually believe that we relaxed..) We drove over on a Friday and got a late start as our 'alarm' had picked the prior night to be her FIRST night to sleep through the night.. of course I wasn't complaining but King Bee had some people he had to meet at a certain time so it just rushed us out the door a little faster (good thing I had made a list the night before of the things still needed to be packed). The kids were great on the ride over.. Baby Bee slept most of the way and Sporty Bee watched a movie (The Grinch) and played games. King Bee had left me in charge of planning out our weekend and here was our conversation:

' so do you have the weekend all planned out on what we are doing and where we are going?'

' nope we aren't doing anything but beach Saturday and shopping Sunday and meals in between'

' that's our plan?!?'

' yup, that is our plan' THAT'S why it was a relaxing weekend, we weren't running around doing everything possible..

We got all checked into our hotel and off to work daddy went. So I met up with my friend (we will just call Jewels) and hung out with her for the afternoon. (Baby Bee slept through again night #2). Saturday we to the beach it was beautiful weather breezy not too hot and the water was chilly but of course that didn't stop the kids. Sporty Bee had a ball with his new buddy (who we will call) Jacob; there were butterflies everywhere on the beach it was fun (see the butterfly on the green shovel handle in the bag in the center of the picture - does this help :O) lol)

the kids built sand castles

It's all about team work

and yes they actually got in the water but the looks of it, it was COLD

I got in the water too HA (color on toes called 'I don't do dishes')

and here is Baby Bee waking up from her nap on the beach - aaaahhhhhh

After the beach we took NAPS - YUM and got ready for dinner. We headed to this seafood place on the beach with D.Q and her new beau. (Baby Bee slept through again night #3) Sunday we headed to the outlet malls and spent the afternoon there got some great deals and finished the night at PF Changs. It was a great weekend and great to see Jewels and D.Q :) Miss you girls

Things that make you go DUH - Edited

ok so I finally got around to checking my Mazda.. yeah not the case in my car. Would be a great idea though for someone to actually do this in their cars wouldn't it.. knew it was too easy. Let me know if it is the case in your car, maybe it depends on the make???

Original Post:

Ha who knew - so my friend Anne sent me an email this AM reading -

'Have you ever rented or borrowed a car and when arriving at the gas station wondered...mmm, which side is the gas filler cap? My normal solution was to stick my head out the window, strain my neck and look, try to see in the side mirrors or even get out of the car! Well ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to share with you my little secret so you will no longer look like Ace Ventura on your way to the gas station or put your neck at risk of discomfort or injury.If you look at your ga s gauge, you will see a small icon of a gas pump?The handle of the gas pump will extend out on either the left or right side of the gas pump?If your tank is on the left, the handle will be on the left? If your tank is on the right, the handle will be on the right (see photo). It is that simple'

Don't feel dumb, just go out and share the world's best kept auto secret with your friends.

Trick or Treat

Sporty Bee had a parade at school Friday and we were both able to make it to enjoy the festivities but the real treat was that night watching him run from house to house. Man the energy those kids have when it involves more candy. I had made Baby Bee a spider (originally Sporty Bee was going to be spider man - but that changed) and Sporty Bee was the red power ranger. He went into the costume store wanting to be something scary (some reason he is into scary this year) but I had to tell him he couldn't wear scary to school and most of the scary costumes didn't come in his size. He was standing at the WALL of costumes for about 15 minutes and finally agreed on the red power ranger. Here is the back of her costume Here are the kids before we let them loose
Sporty Bee during his parade at school finding us in the crowd
Both of the kids together in costume at mommies work Happy (belated) Halloween

The carving of our pumpkin

I'm a little delayed in my Halloween post but I guess better late then never. We carved our pumpkin a few nights before Halloween and yet again, Sporty Bee wasn't into the guck of the pumpkin guts

however he did have fun with the scoop to get the guck rather then his hands and carving was his favorite.
He did keep asking if it was scary as he didn't think it was scary enough he thought it was too happy so daddy had to improvise a little with a market to try making it 'more scary' for the little guy.