Halloween Party!

I was so happy we were still able to have our annual (3rd) Halloween Party this year! And somehow I am getting this blogged about even before actual Halloween!

Since I am still on maternity leave, I spaced out the time to prepare and enjoyed most of the preparation (cleaning is never really very fun…). Decorating is always pretty fun though.

Owl candle makes its return with some festive decor

I think I found my new favorite fall cupcake combo!

chocolate pumpkin cupcakes with fluffy nutella buttercream frosting!

and two repeat favs:

mummies in wraps

shrunken head cider

We also had the costume walk-off with some “great” prizes that went to winners Jess and Jeremy!

Runners Mark and Melissa with their little ladybuy Adalyn

Meg Willig breaks it down as a line-dancing ghost!

We are farmers harvesting our sweet pea Brynn

the harvest is good!

the winning costumes- lawn ornaments! pink flamingo and garden gnome (minus the hat in this pic)

The party was great fun and can’t wait till actual Halloween and trick-or-treaters!

Oct 1

Brynn’s first month

Well, not much has really happened, but that doesn’t mean that no pictures have been taken. On the contrary, hundreds and hundreds probably. Jeff is working on some of the better ones, but I wanted to share the many faces of Brynn. She is very expressive, in both sleep and awake states! She also has arms that have a mind of their own, but that is harder to capture in a picture. I think maybe she will be a orchestra conductor

Of course I have many more, but these were some of the ones with a little more personality.

I know these pics are small, but I’m going to do a poll:

Maybe we’ll repeat after a couple months to see if answers change!

Brynn had her one month check today and she is up to 6#13oz and 20.5in. I thought that was really good but she is still 3rd%ile for weight…

Sep 29

somebody else’s giveaway

One of my friends is doing a blog giveaway and would like others to blog about it. Go here if you want in:

http://pagingdoctorgrace.blogspot.com/

and you could keep following her too if you’d like

Sep 11

Welcome Brynn Averie Miller!

Now the pressure is really on to be a good blogger. Inquiring grandparents (and maybe some other people) will want to know what we all (OK, really just our new baby girl) are up to. So, without further ado, I introduce you to our beautiful, precious, adorable, tiny bundle of love and joy: Brynn Averie Miller!

Minutes old!

Hello world!

My delivery went really smoothly. I’ll spare you all the details but I’ll just say my water broke at 2:30 am on Sept 4, eventually got to the pushing part- did that for 45 minutes and here she was! All in all I’d say it feels like it went really fast and wasn’t nearly as bad as I dreaded. I’m sure the epidural had a LOT to do with that! Highly recommend them

After Brynn got cleaned, weighed (6lbs 1oz) and measured (19 in) she got to come back and meet us!

hi daddy

first kisses from mommy

There have been a ton of pictures of Brynn already- many can be found here: Snapfish link. Here are just two more for now…

everything is so tiny!

already spent our first lounging football weekend- good times

Aug 21

The (finally!) finished nursery

Yes, I acknowledge that we have not blogged in a really long time. We are just going to skip over the last 8+ months of missed life and get to the now, which is going to be Jeff & Meghan +1 in just a couple weeks now. In preparation for +1 (yes, she does have a name, we just aren’t sharing it yet) we totally redid (for the 2nd time) our upstairs guest room turned nursery. It was about a 6+ week process of painting, sanding, more painting, random stuff collecting, etc.

Back in May, we picked up the furniture from a family in Plainfield a la Craigslist. It then sat for a couple months until we really got the whole project going in July. I’ll show just a couple photos along the way and then get to the reveal of the finished product for those that haven’t already seen them on facebook.

old walls and black furniture (goodbye africa room )

First we painted the yellow walls green. Shock to the system! Then we had several showers (this is from 2 of 3)- such generous friends and family- thank you!

Next, we sanded and primed the furniture before painting it gray (I swear, it’s gray)- this was the longest step (by far.)

obligatory “daddy putting the crib together” shot

Next, Jeff and I (about 95% Jeff) did the tree wall mural. Jeff posted his own blog about how he did that for anyone that is interested. I love it. So, without further ado… the new nursery!