Raegan is patriotic

The other day while riding in the car, Raegan asked me, "Mom, what does felicity and justice for all mean?" I quickly guessed she must have been talking about liberty and justice for all, and responded with, "do you mean like in the Pledge of Allegiance?" To which Raegan responded by reciting the entire thing, and finished it off with a song. I didn't even know she'd been learning this! I asked her to repeat it and caught it on video (yes, I was driving, but I promise I was watching the road). I uploaded this from my phone and can't get it rotated. I'm sure Tony will find a way before my next post.

January in Summary

So here's a quick synopsis of what happened in January:

Of course, there was Snowpocalypse 2011. The first picture sums up Hudson's sentiment on the snow. He also had bronchitis and some other random ailments, so we're thankful to finally have him healthy again.

Raegan enjoyed it and even went sledding with Daddy after I gave her guilt trip about how Daddy just needs someone to play with.


Raegan and Hudson went for their 2nd visit to the dentist, and I remembered to take pictures. They both did really well and will need braces before they are 7. Add that to the budget!

We had a fun visit from Nana and Papa for the weekend, and Jason, Mina, and cousins came over for lunch.

Hudson had his first haircut by someone other than his mom. Didn't like the airplane chair, but was perfectly happy with the train set as soon as the trim was over. He looks like a big boy now (sniff sniff).

Tony and Raegan went to a "Daddy-Daughter Date Night" at Chick-fil-A.


I'm still doing my boot camp in the mornings and Tony is working really hard to prepare for the annual CFA seminar. And now if you'd like even more details, or if you're dying to know how we entertained ourselves during the prison of our home surrounded by snow, see the slideshow:

Good-Bye, 2010!

Well, before we can say good-bye, we need to wrap up Christmas. We are lucky enough to have two Christmases every year - one with the Miley's mid-December and another with the Lewis' on Christmas day. On Christmas Eve, we went to the service at our church, came home for a quick dinner, and then did our ride around town in our PJs with egg nog. I'm reminded of this little tradition last year (watch the video), which did not go as smoothly, and thankful for a peaceful night this year!

We spent Christmas morning at our house opening gifts and then headed to my parents' for brunch and more gifts...LOTS more gifts! We drove home (in the SNOW) and the kids were exhausted and ready for bed.



We started our New Year's celebration at the Smyrna Market Village for a Happy "Noon" Year's event for the kids, and then spent the evening at the Cohen's. The kids went to sleep there at the usual time, and the adults hung out until 1am. Then we just scooped them up and walked across the street to our house and put them in bed. Why haven't we tried this before?! All the kids slept great. 2011 is off to a good start!

Miley family Christmas...

I guess our weekly blog posts are becoming longer than a week in between updates! I don't want to make a new year's resolution that we'll get back to weekly, but I'll just say we'll try!

Since the last post, we've gone down to Brewton for the Miley family Christmas. Jason's family was there too. When we got back, Hannah gave me a B'day week... which was awesome.

At school, Raegan's class sang Christmas carols to the home office (my work). Raegan had practiced and was ready but kind of freaked out just as they started singing and had to run out to me and Hannah watching in the audience. I have a little video of that but since it's sad, we won't post it. Instead, I'm posting a video of when we had Raegan sing some of the songs at home. Also, you can see some of the shots from the caroling & of the family staying for lunch.


The kids caroling (minus Raegan - since she ran to us)

This slideshow is from photos that Lesley Kerr took of us (& edited). She is also our baby sitter... and she is great! If you're interested in getting her to take some pictures, checkout her website: http://www.lesleykerrphotography.com/.

Here is the slideshow from the Miley family Christmas...

Christmas Fun

Lots of Christmas fun this week! We went to Vinings Jubilee last Thursday with our awesome babysitter, Lesley and her boyfriend. Lesley is a very talented photographer (lesleykerrphotography.com), and she photographed us (pics to come soon). Afterwards, we went to dinner and then tried to go to the Vinings Jubilee Christmas tree lighting, but there were no parking spots within a mile of the place! On Saturday, we joined the Cohens at the Mable House Christmas Festival for some holiday acitivites. Sunday was the CFA Open House, and Tony runs the Santa pictures there every year. It's always a long day for him, but he does a great job getting pictures for all of CFA's visitors. This year, he took 299 pictures. I went to a Cookie Exchange in our neighborhood that day, and Mimi watched the kids. I came home with almost 100 cookies and we've been stuffing our faces all week! Mimi came to Raegan's school on Monday to decorate Christmas ornaments with Raegan. Christmas shopping is under way, but we've still got a lot to do. Raegan has already asked if she can open all the presents now, and Hudson enjoys pulling ornaments off the tree and busting them on the floor.

Thanksgiving & Christmas decorations

This past week, we spent most of the week and weekend in a cabin in north Georgia with Hannah's family. Everyone made it except Aunt Heather & her family. We all had fun and it was a really nice cabin. Our kids were a little unruly a few times but were mostly good I think.

We had Thanksgiving meal there, we played games, enjoyed the hot tub, played with the kids, took family photos, exercised, went to Blue Ridge for a Christmas festival, watched the Iron Bowl, and just had a good time! We don't often get to spend multiple days in a row with Hannah's family. I think everyone had a good time and I know Raegan & Hudson were sad to leave!

This slideshow tells & shows some of the details...

Yard Sale, Pirate's Cove, the Zoo & Dinosaur party...

Since our last blog post, we have had a yard sale with my brother's family. That was my first yard sale... we did pretty well! Hannah has taken the kids to Pirate's Cove indoor playground & also took them to the zoo with Mimi, Aunt Heather & Skyla. We also went to Zach Martin's 5yr B'day party. It was a fun Dinosaur themed party.

Enjoy the slideshow... (& Happy Thanksgiving!)

Dance Video

I forgot to add this video on the last blog post. This was from when Skyla was visiting with us. This is Raegan, Skyla & Hudson having a dance party.

The latest...

We don't have a whole lot to blog about but below is a slideshow of a few things that we have been doing lately.

Halloween and Fall activities...

We just can't seem to get back into the weekly blog update! So when we do post, there tends to be a lot to post. Hopefully it will keep your attention!

Everyone is doing well. I just finished my first ever jury duty (interesting experience). Hannah starts bootcamp (fitness) tomorrow. Raegan can spell 'aquarium'. Hudson is starting to better communicate with signs and trying to talk. He still doesn't really say anything too clearly, but he is trying! Anyway... all has been good but busy!

The slideshows will tell the story of the activities we have been doing. But to summarize... since the last post, we have helped host a shower for the Smith's (having their first baby), have helped host a going away party for the Leary's (who are moving to Virginia), have gone to our first & second Smyrna rec league T-ball game, went to another fall festival, Hannah & Rae went to the aquarium, we have hosted a UGA/FLA party at our house, and we have celebrated Halloween (mostly with our neighborhood party).



For Halloween, we went to our neighborhood party dressed as medical people & dressed our wagon as an ambulance. I'm pasting these shots outside of our slideshow because I told too many people of my ambulance plan so I have to show a couple of pictures before going into the slideshow (because I have a ton of pics in the slideshow)

Now the slideshow...