Taden's TWO...

After 2 months have passed from Taden's birthday I figured it is a perfect time to update it.

What do you do on a birthday?

#1) You find friends

2) You play with balloons

3) You experience the wanders of candles and cake

Step 1) Look dazed while trying to think of a wish. Step 2) Blow Out the Candle

Step 3) Compile and then eat your cupcake.

Here is a starter for Taden's 2nd birthday. The camera decided that it's battery life was done, and so we got 3 pictures. Their will be more coming.

Maranda worked very hard all day getting things ready. She made a cake out of 12 x 12 scrapbook paper for pin the candle on the cake. She also made bean bags, and cut out holes in cardboard for a bean bag toss.

One of Taden's Favorites was he got decorate a cupcake with whatever he wanted to and as much as he wanted.

Fall time and Thanksgiving at Uncle Mark's and Charlotte's

We have 3 hugely ginormous tree's in our yard. They produce a bounteous supply of leaves leaving us lots of fun and itchy times.





For Thanksgiving we took to the road and went to Kentucky where Uncle Mo Mark got to live out one of my American Dream's, Taden learned how to play Football, and Maranda got some needed rest.






Lilly didn't like to participate in many of the activities and we had to leave her comfort swing at home so we came up with next best thing. An aunt an uncle.




And last but not least what else could a kid want to be but an apprentice Jedi learning from Jedi Master cousins.

Hoppy Halloween

While Maranda was laboring Lilly into this world, we had many conversations with the nurses. One of them was inspirational, Kelle shown below gave us the idea of what to have as Halloween costumes.




She suggested that since we have a Tad and a Lilly we can have a Tad Pole/Frog and a Lilly Pad.
















The kids with their favorite people mum and dad, and of course baa-ba (grandpa)

Lillyana Miller

8 lbs 3 oz. 21 inches.

Our little one came after only being in the hospital a mere 4 hours. Compared to Taden at almost 12.


Enjoy the pictures, and come visit us here in the Midwest.

Dr. Cecchi


Lilly's Mum and dad.

Taden's 1st Video Premiere

Mike put together this video for his parents and Maranda's. But now it is available for ya'll (yes we are far enough south to say ya'll) so enjoy. Make sure to turn up your speakers as the music selection is outstanding.

P.S. (The video is actually only 4:38 seconds not 8 something.. I took it from a Premiere Elements file and exported it to a Windows Media file and it is adding almost 4 extra minutes of blank boring nothingness to the screen. If any of you know how to get rid of this annoyance we would be much obliged.)

Baby Girl

Our little girl is growing well. She is due on October 7th. We just got another ultrasound of her last week where they were able to tell her gender. We were excited to see her and are even more excited to be able to hold her in a few months. We are having some troubles finding a girl name we are both willing to stick with and are open to suggestions.

Our little girl is shy. Sorry. Except for when it comes showing off her legs.

Taden

Taden is 19 months and adorable.

He started so small (he still is) but, he's growing fast.
He's all boy. All 16 teeth, 23 pounds, 32 inch part of him.

Taden has certainly entered the toddler stage, leaving infanthood chocking in the dust.

Sometimes growing up is a little rough on a person.
Like they say, "what doesn't kill ya only makes you stronger."
At this rate, he might be indestructable by adulthood.

With curiousity like this little guy, nothing is going to hold him back.
Look out world, here he comes, the Magnificant Curious himself.

Michael

One of the highlights of moving into our home was that we got a ginormous painting of the last supper to put on our not so ginormous wall. We got it as a token of appreciation for helping move the missionaries. (It was actually in their closet and they didn't want it)

Another highlight was seeing Mike and Kevin. I haven't seen Tree since the summer of 2003. He hadn't met Maranda or Taden. Kevin hadn't seen us since our wedding almost 3 years ago. They stopped by late on Sunday Night on their way to DC to work out their.





















Another Miller highlight was the chance to grow portobello mushrooms downstairs in our food storage closet. A picture will be forthcoming. Anyway it went really well and they were growing splendidly (the one pictured weighed in at just over 1/2 a pound) then we went on vacation. The mushroom sitter didn't know when to pick them. They turned over released their deadly spores and died a slow and overripe death. Actually we got 3 more later but we went on vacation again and you can guess the rest of the story. It was a bitter sweet scrumptious experience.

















Me failing at slack lining.






















The professional mo

Our House

We are so happy to own our first house. It's in Huntingburg, Indiana (not far from the town Mike's parents live in). It was built in 1942.

Our favorite parts of it are our garden and the beautiful honey-oak wood floors.

Taden loves his mini-closet behind his clothes closet. The adorable hidden room is only around 4 feet at the tallest part.

We sure will be glad when everything is unpacked and we get settled in.