Happy Valentines Day!!!!
Here we are very early (not too early because Steven turned my alarm off so I didn't get up to exercise and spoil it) on Monday morning for our Valentine surprise Steven surprised us all by getting us hearts full of chocolate and making pink muffins for breakfast. They were delicious and darling.

The kids loved it. Miranda was fun to watch and listen to as she told everyone all day how much Daddy loved Mommy because he go her a huge heart full of chocolate:)

Steven went to school, taught his early class and then came home to spend the day doing fun things with us. Oh the life of taking days off just because you want to. It is great!

He made and then decorated sugar cookies with the kids. I am not a huge fan of sugar cookies and he loves them so he thinks of great excuses to make them. Of course the kids love that.

I just want to give a shout out to my wonderful Valentine. He made it a great day, Thank you Steven and I hope all of you had a wonderful Valentines day.

Snow Days!!!

For the past 2 days we have had a severe winter storm come through our area. This storm has been so bad for the roads that even Purdue University has been closed for those days. These are the kinds of things we do when we are forced to stay inside all day.

First of all we must shovel the snow. This storm has been bad because we have had freezing rain on top of the snow, so if you can see in the picture Steven in using a normal flat head shovel not a snow shovel because the snow is really a soft ice. It came of the walk in large ice chunks so he got it off the walks with that shovel and then I helps plow it off the driveway with the snow shovel. It was hard work.

With daddy home what could be more fun than a huge sward fight. Miranda and Jacob (mostly Jacob) could sward fight for hours but mommy and daddy don't last quite long.

As you can see he likes two swards for all sward fights, smart kid.

Of course what is a good day inside without a nice long jumping on the bed. What are guest beds for anyway?

We are so happy to be safe and warm inside on this cold and snowy day and even more grateful that our power has not gone out and we have plenty of room to play and have fun:)

Mills Kids

The comment that I get most often about my boys is how much alike they look, Jackson is just a little Jacob. Well, I guess looking at these pictures says they are right but don't leave Miranda out of the mix. Jacob and Jackson January 2011

Jackson about 2 weeks old

Jacob about 2 weeks old

Miranda about 2 weeks old

And a Happy New Year!!

We wish each of you a wonderful new year. We have high hopes that 2011 will be great!

We wish you a Merry Christmas!!

We had a wonderful holiday season and are so grateful for all the love and support that we feel from so many of you. On Christmas Eve we had a fun party with all of these great friends. We ate lots, played lots, and just had fun.

The kids, of course, got their PJ's for Christmas Eve and Steven his new kids book.

Jacob loves football and i couldn't pass up the great deal for the helmet and shirt.

The big thing this year was the scooters. Miranda has been asking for a scooter for months now, we are just grateful for grandmas that get the kids fun things.

Dr. Steven Mills

He is official!!! On Thursday Dec 2nd Steven defended his dissertation with his committee of 4 and passed with flying colors to officially become Dr. Steven Mills (that officially makes me Mrs. Dr Steven Mills) The entire committee was pleased with the dissertation and are encouraging him to make it into a book. We could not be more happy. It has felt in the past that this day would never come but here we are at the end of Steven's PHD program looking for jobs all over the country.

I could not be more proud of him. He has worked so hard over all his years. When we were joking yesterday about calling him "doctor" Miranda said that she would call him Dr. Daddy:)

Great job Steve, you are amazing.

Snow!!

This is the only snow that we have had so far but it is funny how kids get so excited about snow no matter how much there is.