A Day at the Park

Hi All,
We took Miller to a really nice park today for some family pictures, courtesy of Sarah. After an hour of acting like idiot adults, jumping up and down, making silly faces, and totally embarassing ourselves, we got Miller to smile maybe twice the entire time.
He's teething and has 4 top teeth and 2 bottom ones already. I can't believe he is growing up so fast. This week end he stood on his own for the very first time. He likes to curl his toes though so he doesn't stand very long. Still not sleeping thru the night but that's ok. He's such a sweet little man I can deal with it.

This is us washing our feet in the fountain.

Miller was very into all of the other kids

running around in the water. We almost

jumped in ourselves.

This is Miller's first introduction to sand.

Unfortunately it left a bad taste "in his mouth",

literally.

Miller's little feetsies in the sand. Aren't they the cutest?



The Gavel Family

The most beautiful baby in the whole wide world!

Check out that hair do.

The following are a few of the 500 pictures we took today

of our little family.

Stay tuned for my next posting. I will be posting pictures of Thanksgiving and Miller making his debut as a concert pianist.

Marine Corps Ball

I haven't had time to post pictures from the Marine Corps Ball, but Sarah said that I could link you to hers.

http://theboggle.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post.html

Some forgotten things...

Don't you fret, I'll bring them with me...
So, I noticed that hanging on my giant diamond, are Sarah's beautiful bracelets... Aren't you missing them?

Just some more pictures...

Here are some cute pictures of Miller...

I have no idea why we took this picture, but Sarah and I this past weekend... Just like the old days (without the lipstick)! : ) haha...

Halloween!

I messed up again, the Introduction is at the bottom... One of these days I'll get it right!

Playing in the pumpkin guts! We were both covered... : ) I made sure I cleaned up the evidence before daddy got home

The beautiful pumpkin...


Getting ready to go Trick-or-Treating! Grace was Belle, and Miller was a lion.

Like the pumpkin socks? It is impossible to get a good picture of two children, I'm convinced.

Grace and Miller, sacked out on Moo Moo's bed! Obviously, they weren't too concerned about Dolly and SIDS...

One of the good things about living in the projects... When the water isn't working, and the power is off... you can always resort to the swings! : ) This is Miller's first time on the swings!

This is Miller's first formula bottle, a momentous occasion!
START HERE, THEN GO UP TO THE TOP... oops

So, I'm jumping on the blogwagon again... ! Now, I can't think of clever and witty things to say about Halloween because it seems so long ago! You will see, Miller and I carved the pumpkin, which turned out to be the best pumpkin I've ever carved!! We carved it Thursday night and I wanted to bring it to Stuart to show it off and light it for Halloween... except meanie Travis wouldn't let me because it "smells!" Grr... that started off a wonderful Halloween trip! We left late, which you all know I like to be on time and I didn't want to miss Miller's first Halloween! Then we had to stop to get money for the tolls, get something to eat, gas, and let Flower poop (the story of our lives). After our long trek across the flat state of Florida, we got to James and Liza's in time to walk around with Gracie! The cousin's first Halloween together!

This was also the weekend that Miller voted with his daddy! He's going to be a good little Republican one day : ) (Of course he'll be whatever he wants to be... but I'm sure he'll want to be a red elephant, I think he likes them better). I wasn't there for this momentous occasion because I was getting my hair butchered by Helen Keller's prodigy, but I did manage to wait in line for an hour afterward and vote, all cranky and chopped.

One of these days...

Do not despair! The blog will be updated sometime soon... : ) Look at me... slackin' already! Miller is getting three, maybe four teeth on top, so he's been needing a little more lovin' than usual! My poor baby! Pictures to come shortly: HALLOWEEN with Grace, and The Marine Corps Ball! Love you all!