Miller Family Blog

Happy Spring!

Wondering what The Millers have been up to lately? Here are some highlights:

~Vinny and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary today! Since he had to work tonight, we had our official celebration last night. We went to dinner at Singleton's (I love their food more and more each time I go!), shopped around Best Buy and saw a movie. We (well I) strongly do NOT recommend you see Sin City (unless you are in the mood for truly bizarre viewing). I let Vinny pick the movie since he promised me a new digital camera. Here is the one I got http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=5992848&type=product&productCategoryId=cat04008&id=1061769822853
(it's so shiny and purty.... it's my new baby! Vinny said I would probably get it for Mother's Day but he left this morning and came home with it this afternoon!!) and I think it was a fair deal - a $20 movie for him and that camera for me. ;)

~Our house is coming along....slowly but surely! Everything that belongs in the kitchen is in the living room. Everything that belongs in the living room is in the living room. Are you feeling the claustrophobia of it all? In the living room we currently have: 27 boxes of kitchen cabinetry, a stove, microwave, dishwasher, two couches and three pieces of furniture needing to be built. Anyone doing anything this Saturday? :) The cabinets are being hung on Thursday so once they are in, we get our counter top on order and the floor gets laid down. Then it's a matter of odds and ends getting done. My Dad and Vinny have been working their butts off (I must give credit to my dad and say he is working more of his butt off down there then anyone else) in the basement with the sheet-rock. Rooms are being built, pipes are being run for my washer/drier, cement has been poured for the stall shower they are putting in.................... moving right along! We did pay our first two bills up there; mortgage (yuck!) and oil!

~We got our bedroom set delivered last week. I think that is our first completed room (well, we still need to order a comforter set, courtesy of my Grandma!) Our room, if I may brag, is GoRgEoUs!!! We have very pale yellow walls (more like an off-white I'd say), a "ruby quartz" rug and dark chestnut furniture - and a LOT of it! We have 5 pieces, NOT including the bed with headboard/footboard/posters. It's King sized and Vinny and I canNOT wait one second longer to sleep on this thing!! I just can't wait to lay under the big posts and feel like a Princess. :)

~This is kind of long-term but I am so psyched that I must share!!!!! We are planning a Disney World vacation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We wanted to go there for our honeymoon but that didn't pan out with my doctor not even wanting to let me travel to Pennsylvania at the last minute! I know I'll take my kids back again and hopefully, again, when they are older. And sure, they will be 1.5 and 2.5 years old when we go and will most likely not remember a thing in 20 years ( or will they... due to my detailed scrapbooks :) ) But when we are there, their faces will light up at the characters! the light parade! Dinner with Mickey.... breakfast with Donald! I am so so so excited not only for me, but more so for my kids and the looks on their little faces!!! AND.... I might be most excited for Vinny! He was there when he was 2 years old and doesn't remember one thing about the place. He really doesn't have the biggest interest either but I told him that will all change after he goes. After all, Disney IS the most "magical place on Earth". :) Vin thinks I'm a cheeseball. I say he'll come around! Anyway, we are going to go in the Spring, possibly for Easter like we did when I was a kid, and we are going with my parents so we have some extra babysitting hands.

~Vinny played in a King of the Ice hockey tournament for the FDNY yesterday. He's been playing once a week for a while now it's just a "for fun" league with some work buddies. Apparently, his Engine/Ladder was in the final 32 or so teams (whittled down from the original 110 teams or so!). I went to the game yesterday and they lost. But it was fun. Vinny was a little pissed off but that's men and their sports. I told him, and I am not just saying this, he is their entire team! he does every face off, had the puck for 98% of the time and scored their only goal. He said a lot of the guys do it for fun but Vinny really was great out there! I got some crappy pics (thanks to my old digital camera) but I'll scrap them for sure anyway.

~I took the kids to the mall last week with my Mom to buy them new Spring wardrobes. What fun!! Emily is in 2T and Andrew is in 18 months. They really had both outgrown everything so between my Mom and myself, we really bought everything two little kids could need to look hip and fashionable, all while being comfortable, this Spring and Summer. We got everything from tops, jeans, shorts, dresses, & Spring jackets down to socks, hairbows, baseball caps and shoes!! I know I am a Mom now (well, I knew that the first time I got peed on and pinched for no good reason) because I could care less if I have cute, new clothes. It's more fun having two kids that are dressed up adorably everyday!

Ok friends, that might be it in our neck of the woods for now. Read on for some Andy & Emmie updates. :)

posted by Gina M @ 10:56 PM