For Kelly

My sis is making a family calandar (with shutterfly) and I tried to send her some photos for her to use, but my email is slow- slow-slow and so I'm posting thses photos here because it is quicker-- and so you guys can take a peek of some more of our fam photos (from October) taken by my little sis., Tracy

Logan

I havn't posted much of Logan, so here are a few photos of our little guy. he's 3 1/2 months now!

These were taken a month ago by my sister Tracy! She is in the BYU photo program and takes really cute pictures (I wish I lived closer and could utilize her more. If you need a (cheap) photographer, or want to visit her photo blog it's http://www.tracyhillphotography.blogspot.com/)

I love this one because he's just looking at the owl on his bouncer like it's is an old friend!

Soccer

We had Millie do the city leauge soccer this year. It is really un-official and they just kinda get out there to learn the game. She was the youngest on her team by several months so she was a little more spacey then the rest, but that made it sooo funny! She didn't particularlly like it, but she tolerated it. Millie is SOOO social! (she certanly did not get that from me) Her favorite part was for sure the "companionship" of her team mates. The picture above is her first day of practice. She had never met these kids, but yet, she would just wander up to them, smile at them and put her hand on their shoulder...

Millie was always out there doing something silly. looking around at the kids playing on the sidelines, playing in the dirt, or hanging on the goal.

There were a few times that she got pretty into it though... I just don't think she's agressive enough to go and get the ball from someone else.

sometimes she was "feelin' a little frustrated" because she would get pushed or something. Her friend Easton was on her team, and they were always fighting out there and that would make her "frustrated" too. By the end of the season the coaches realized that they just couldn't put Mill and Easton on the field together. ha ha.

Teddy Bear Picinic Birthday

Our Silly-Mill Turned 3!!! Can't believe she's getting so big! We had a 'Teddy Bear Picnic Party' for her and it ended up being really fun (and also fun to plan and prep!) M. was soo excited to have a birthday party and to have all her friends come!

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I've really been wanting to try out fondant but have been a scaredy cat. so, I decided it was now or never!!! It was actually pretty easy and fun! I made the bees out of fondant and then covered the cake in fondant too. Soo fun! I want to do another!

We had everyone bring their teddy bear- we decorated party hats for their bears, played Teddy-Teddy-Bear (like duck duck goose), Read the "Teddy Bear Picnic" story, had a Picnic with: Teddy Bear shaped sandwiches, Strawberries, teddy grahm snack mix (rasins, mallows, yogurt pretzils, and teddy grahm's) and of course did alot of jumping on the tramp.

We handed out Honey Bears, and gummy bears as our "party favors" (millie is obsessed with honey!)

Happy Birthday Little Mill!

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Manly Weekend

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Millie and I had a manly weekend...kind of. Friday night we had our first rugged camping experience. A blazing fire on the back porch with smores, the tent set up in the in the wild of .25 acres in our backyard, and the moonlight streaming into our tent throughout the night...or maybe that was the kitchen sink light 30 feet away. Either way, we had fun and Millie slept better than I did. After smores and ice cream, we retired to the tent for stories and bedtime. We read books on the iPad and then it was bedtime. I fell asleep in about 2 minutes and Millie played with the flashlight on the tent ceiling for about 5 minutes. And that was that. Nine hours of pretty sound sleeping. The weather was perfect at about 60 degrees.

And then today we went for a little cruise on the neighbors 50cc dirtbike. Millie thought it was great. I did too. It only has 3 gears but that little bike cruises. Mental note: Get children dirtbikes at the appropriate age - I hear they have training wheels for them. Sweet!

more Logan

Here are just a couple more photos for you- (as per request by kelly.) He's doing well and we're excited to have him home. He's a pretty calm little guy and still pretty sleepy. Mill has been a good big sister and is really good about pulling silly faces for him and checking on him while he is sleeping :)

Logan McAdams is here

Logan arrived at 12:39pm this afternoon. It was a scheduled C-section. He weighed 7 lbs 12 oz, has some strawberry-blonde hair, and screamed like a little girl until they swaddled him. He's been an angel ever since. Whit is doing really well and is about to enjoy some dessert. Millie was way excited and ecstatic to give him a present she picked out the other day. She kept saying how tiny he was and laughing. We are so thrilled and pumped for number two. I love this picture because mom and baby are smiling...even if baby's smile is like Paulie from Rocky. And Logan already has the Italian hand thing down too. - Josh

Blueberries & Swimming

Millie had a session of swim lessons a couple weeks ago. She is such a brave little girl and always thinks she can just go on her own in a pool, She's forever getting mad at us for holding onto her... so we decided we'd better get her into some lessons before she gets herself into trouble.

She LOVED swimming lessons and wouldn't even take a nap several days because she was so excited. I'd ask her why she didn't sleep, and she'd say "um... I was just thinking about swimming lessons." She loved her goggles, and loved her teachers (my V.T. has a pool and teaches at her house)

I had a good little video I tried to upload but can't get it to work :( but Millie successfully learned how to hold her breath, became very comfortable with putting her head in the water, and can even "swim" for a few seconds! She is super brave, so while the 6 year old in her class was crying about jumping off the diving board because "he was going to drown and die" Millie was just trying to cut in line so she could jump sooner!

One of Millies favorite foods is Blueberries! There is a place down in MS. where we like to go pick them. You can eat as many as you want to while picking! We got a gallon- but they only lasted about a week and a half!

And this last photos is just for your viewing pleasure... because I look so darn amazing (ha ha!) I think i must be twice as big as i was with millie! We'll add baby #2 to our family on Wednesday and we're getting pretty excited! We plan to name him Logan (after Logan Utah on my part, and after "Wolverine" on Josh's part) Still trying to decide on middle names: Felix, Christian, Gabriel, or Micah.

June- still a month behind

June was a really good month filled with lots of fun things! The first week of the month was Girls camp! The theme included pirates as you can see below... the poor girls had to endure temperatures of around 95 with 90% humidity. I'm glad I didn't have to be there the whole week to suffer that heat!) but it was a good time!

Me and some leaders in our pirate outfits

I just had to throw this one in because I think Millie is so funny. She's always doing something crazy! She LOVES goggles and wants to wear them all over the place. She'll just put on a pair and sit and watch T.V. or want to wear them to the store or whatever.

We've had some hott weather! we've spent several days at the sprinkler park- such a great FREE thing to do! (we don't have any actual swimming pools here in memphis for some reason)

Tried out this fun new activity- paint stomping. pour some glops of paint on the butcher paper and let kids paint with their feet (which of course ended in paint all over Millie's body and a nice mustache! but it was outside, so we could get as messy as we wanted!)

The zoo alows kids to "swim" in their fountains. It is kindof disgusting to me, but as you pass by, and about 20 other kids are in the fountain, it's pretty much impossible to keep Millie out!

We got to head out to Utah for a bit for my sister Tracy's wedding!!!!!! It was a blast! She looked amazing, her reception was about the best i've ever been too, and her and Kyle make such a great couple! (p.s. Sorry I didn't get with any utah friends while out there, we just visited with our families the whole time)

Kyle had a Niece who was just a few months older than Millie. They were such good little playmates! We also have to give her a big thank you for getting Millie to eat something new! Ham (Deli Meat) such a great thing for her to eat!!! so easy to pull a piece out and get some protein in that little body! (she is still hesitant to eat it at times, but we just have to remind her, "remember you ate it with abby and it was so good!")

Tracy's reception was in my parents back yard. I really wanted to do mine there, but alas, I got married in February. The yard looked amazing and all the decor (which tracy did ALL by her self) looked sooo good! She had kindof a woodland/rustic theme which was so fun and also looked amazing!

Josh and Sunny (Kelly's hubby) eating the yummy belgium waffles (choice of vanilla, cinnamon or chocolate) served with fresh blackberries, strawberries and raspberries...

After the wedding we were able to do some fun stuff. My mom and I took millie up to sundance and took her on the tram up the mountain! besides the fact that I was a little paranoid about millie falling out, It was a relaxing, peaceful and BEAUTIFUL ride! I miss the mountains alot and just don't see how some people can live with out them!!

Kyle's mom has a bunch of horses. She was so nice and let us come over to the stables so millie could go for a ride. First millie rode with her, and then she got to ride all by herself!!! Of course, Millie was not scared or apprehensive in any way. She had no problem with the fact that she was on this big horse, all by herself. Mill loved this and everyday we have to pretend to "be Anita" and "be Smarty" (Kyles mom, and her horse)

We flew from Utah to Eugene Or. for Josh to race at nationals. It was so pretty up there! (Eugene is possibly the hippy capitol of the U.S. and you see the most awesome and hillarious people up there! Like old old men dressed up like Gandolf walking along the freeway with a walking stick, or a group of hippies riding on their bikes that they have modified so their seat and handle bars are 10 feet high...)Anyways, the race went ok. He ran his best time of the year which was good, but he ended up 4th (for those who are interested this means he will not necessarily get to go to worlds- which is what he was hoping for. Top 3 normally get to go on to worlds in August, but only the first place finisher had run the "A standard"- which is a time standard that they have to have hit within the year. So- now the 3rd place guy and the 4th place guy- which was Josh- will have to try and hit the "A standard" if 3rd place hits it he gets to go to worlds, if Josh hits it and 3rd place doesn't then Josh will get to go to worlds. Complex stuff huh? So- Josh is off to finland this next week to try and run a couple of fast races and earn the "A standard")

Josh's parents moved from clevelad to utah this last year so we were able to spend some time with them too! They made the long drive up to Eugene to support Josh in his race! Thanks! Millie had a blast with them. She just adores all of her Grandma's and Grandpa's!

May

For some reason I feel a need to document what we've been doing in the time that I haven't been posting...

We worked on our garden alot in May, tore out a bunch of bushes, pruned stuff, planted etc. These are our first few strawberries. We love having a garden but it's pretty intense in memphis... it's hard to compensate for all the heat, storms/winds, bugs and BIRDS!

This is my mothers day meal! Josh is a great cook- I love that he likes to cook because it's a fun thing for us to bond over! He made pork loin, rolls, garlic mashed potatoes, and asparagus with a brown sugar sauce. Yum! He also made this amazing white chocolate fruit tark that is pictured below! What a good husband!

Aside from the fact that Millie's hair is pretty ratty in this picture, I love her little blonde curls! She is 2 1/2 and I still haven't cut her hair because I'm afraid the curls will go away!

We took a family Vacation to the Smokies during Josh's week break. It was so amazing to be in the mountains again! That is something that I really miss! Look how amazing! so green! We went on a tram ride up to the top of one of the mtns.

We rode some alpine slides while up on the mountain.

We ate a bunch of good food including this homeade ice cream from a creamery at the apple barn cider mill (also had the best apple cider EVER)

I just like this picture because it's sooo green. It almost looks fake. I love the green out here in TN. ("Greenest state in the land of the free" -from the Davey Crocket song), but once and a while I feel like I'm being smothered by too much green!

I wasn't too creative in May, but this was one thing I did- felt hair clips. Super easy.