Sleeping baby

Summertime fun!

We have been enjoying the sunshine this summer so that is cause for lack of posts but not to worry we have been having fun!

Enjoying watching Rob play baseball

Reagan is really taking after her Daddy and loves all things that have to do with any type of sport. She had to try out this pink bat and helmet.

The pool has been our favorite activity this summer. Reagan is such a fish!

Belly shot around 27 weeks.

Attempting to do some baking, not such a good idea with a 2 year old. Flour went everywhere, she enjoyed licking it up and so did the dog.

We have been a little garage sale crazy! The new baby has enough clothes to last well through the first several months, for next to nothing. The tent and tunnel set up below I scored for only $10!

Having fun at the Fishers Freedom Festival

Reagan got a new big girl bed last week. She has done really well in it. We also found out that same day that she has a peanut allergy! We spend three hours in the ER after she got a little taste of peanut butter. Thankfully, her reaction was not that bad but still a little scary for mom and dad!

Reagan turns 2!

We celebrated Reagan's second birthday a few weeks ago with all the family. She loved being the center of attention and did a fashion show trying on her new dress up clothes.

Hard to believe our baby is two! She is going to be a big sister in a few short weeks and then she will no longer be the baby :(

Boy, oh, Boy!

We are adding a boy to the family! Our ultrasound showed a healthy baby boy on track to make his appearance in early September.

Happy Easter!

We had a very nice Easter weekend celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ! The weekend included a neighborhood egg hunt, lots of cooking, a wonderful service at church, a fun easter basket filled with goodies, and an afternoon with family eating and watching the Masters. Over all, it was a great Easter!

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Vegas

Rob and I took a trip to Vegas for his sales incentive trip. This was our first trip with out Reagan and leaving her over night. She did wonderful with all her Grandparents. We had a lot of fun just relaxing and catching up on sleep! We stayed at the Bellagio, which I have to say is one of the nicest hotels we have ever stayed at. Everything was themed so cool. We enjoyed spa treatments which was such a treat! Each night they had a themed dinner and this night was a formal one. It was so much fun to get dressed up together and have an adult night. Below is a shot of the best dessert ever - it was a chocolate mousse that was filled with creme brulee - oh my goodness!!

That night they treated us to a Cirque de Soule show "Love" which featured all the Beatles songs.

The next night was a rock n' roll evening. They had several areas where you could make videos, play guitar hero and get tatoos. As you can see we took advantage of the tatoo but not to worry they were only temporary.

The big surprise was the entertainment for the night. At&t rented out Rain night club and Maroon 5 performed just for our group! Not only did Rob earn this trip for his sales last year he was the top sales guys in his division! As a reward we got to go back stage before the concert to met the band. Really we just got to get our picture taken with them, there was no talking or socializing (I can't find the picture currently or else I would post that as well)

The many faces of Ms. R

All my friends...

As mentioned before she is in love with all things Disney....

In February, Ms R and I took a trip to Ft. Myers, Fl to visit my mom and brother. My mom and Teona have a nice condo in a really great area. It was nice to also get to see my brother who lives in an apartment down there. He works at a wonderful club that we got to eat at and meet his friends.

This is the face that Ms R makes when you ask for a silly face. Kyle decided to join in the fun!

The weather was not the best while we were there. We did enjoy sometime outside and a very wind dinner at the beach.

Reagan is in love with Disney and all of the characters so we took several trips to the Disney store for her to have fun.

Children's Museum

For Christmas we got a membership to the Children's Museum and have really been enjoying it. Ms R really enjoys the water and sand areas as well as the dinosaurs.

Our membership is a +2 so that means we get to take friends with us to enjoy the fun. Here is our good friend Caleb enjoying the water table, he was wet from head to toe - such a boy!

Hello are you there?

Rob asked me this week if we were totally done with blogging as it had been so long since our last post. And in my defense, I was sleeping the first few months of 2009! Yes, for those of you who may not be aware Baby Doll #2 is on the way! He or she (we will find out April 22nd) is set to make their debut on Sept 9th. Now I that I have waken up out of my first trimester sleepies and have gotten my house back in order the Doll House blog will be back up and running! More updates of our 2009 to follow....

Shelby memorial fund

In addition to the t-shirt sales, a memorial fund has been set up at all Forum Credit Unions. Here is the info on the two ways you can help them out....

Memorial Fund JEREMIAH PARKER SHELBY Our Brookside church pastor, Aaron Shelby, and his wife Beth welcomed Jeremiah Parker Shelby January 4th then released him to be with Jesus approximately one hour later.....Due to the financial cost of a funeral, two different options have been set up for friends and family to contribute to the family....

1. Memorial Fund

* ALL Donations will go directly to the Shelby Family to cover funeral expenses. If the financial blessing outweighs the cost, the remaider of the proceeds will be forwarded to the trisomy 13 charity of the parents choice.

* Donations are being accepted at all FORUM CREDIT UNION branches. Just go into the branch and give them jeremy's name and tell them it is for a memorial fund....After the funeral services...all money will be released to the Shelby's so please make your contributions prior to that date. All donations will be anonymous.

Here is a link of all their locations... http://www.forumcu.com/locations/default.aspx

2. Fashionthropic T-Shirt in memory of Jeremiah has been designed and about Half of the total cost goes directly to the shelby's to help them cover expenses...This is a GREAT way to help out and have an item to remember him by.....

check out the link http://skreened.com/fashionthropic

Also you may check out their blog to be updated on any funeral arrangements...I am sure they will be posting them there... http://www.shelbyfamily09.blogspot.com

Shirt with a good cause

Some great people @ Fashionthropic have put together a "1 loved forever" shirt with proceeds going to the Jeremiah Parker Shelby memorial fund. The shirt reads: in 1 hour he loved perfectly and changed our lives forever / Jeremiah 29:11 passage / Jeremiah Parker Shelby. The shirts are made out of Ohio so there is plenty of time to order and wear to services should you see appropriate. Please feel free to pass this info onto anyone you think would be interested!

This weekend...

So this last weekend was a hard one for the Doll House. Our good friends the Shelby's welcomed a beautiful baby boy named Jeremy and got to enjoy him for a short hour before he went home to be with the Lord. We have been blessed to get to know the Shelby's through our church life group and are inspired by their faith daily. This group means the world to both Rob and I. Check out this post and you will get a feel for what our group is all about. I am putting together meals for the Shelby family so if you are in the Indy area and want to help out email me k3miller@aol.com. Please pray for the Shelby family during this difficult time.

Burrito enjoyment

Well, some of you know about our fondness of Moe's Southwest Grill. Ok well it maybe a bit more than a fondness - at one point we were going a couple times a week. I ate it so much when I was pregnant my family thought Reagan was going to come out mexican! We also got to know the manager well that he gave us a baby gift which Reagan modeled and her picture is still up in the store.

We also love a good deal over at Doll house so we now like to go to Moe's on kid's night so that Reagan can eat free(Wednesday and Sundays). This last week when we went Reagan was so hungry she could not wait for me to get the guts out of her kiddie burrito so she decided it was time to eat her burrito whole. Rob and I just laughed at the sight of her with a big burrito taking bites out of it!

Do your chores

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Ms R has really been interested in "helping out" with things around the house. She is a lot of fun but it takes a bit longer.

Now if I could just get her to do the toliets and I would have it made!

We're back!!!!

So it has been sometime since our last post but give us a break, we have been very busy! In the last 6 weeks we have: moved, celebrated Rob's 40th & Melissa's 28th birthdays, Melissa had her gall bladder taken out, working to finish basement, attended three weddings, one family reunion,hosted Doll side of family for early Thanksgiving, put some furniture, and chased Ms. R all around!! I thought the few Doll house readers would enjoy some new pictures of our life lately.... Thanks for AT&T we got to attend a Sunday night Colts game in the suites! That is the way to watch a game! Gov. Mitch Daniels was in the suite next to us so of course Rob had to talk to him. Ms. R was a Colts cheerleader for Halloween. She just loved it. We also got to meet all of our new neighbors - they had a block party. Lots of kids and fun people! One of my good friends from college, Niki, got married and so I got to catch up with several of my Delta Zeta sorority sisters. These girls are so great and it was wonderful to catch up with them. We also took our first family trip to the pumpkin patch. Ms. R loved the hay ride and she even got her own pumpkin. Rob celebrated his 40th birthday last month and Ms R made a sign for him. I just love this picture of her because she looks like a blur. She no longer walks she runs everywhere and is not stop from the time she wakes up to the time she goes to bed.

When i was putting this post together I realized that we have been very busy but I don't have many pictures to show from it. I promise to be better for all three of our Doll house readers(one of those is Rob) and not let it be so long in between posts and start taking more pictures again. I am also tossing around some ideas of some different post ideas like favorite recipes, crafty projects, etc. to bring more to the Doll house besides pictures of Ms. R. Let me know if you have any suggestions!

California

We took a family trip to California last week for a wedding. My cousin got married in southern California just south of LA. We took advantage of the trip and visited lots of locations - Newport Beach, Santa Barbara, Laugna Beach, Mission Viego, UCLA, Venice Beach, and Mariners church. We have a lot of fun relaxing and visiting with lots of family.

Busy time!

We have been very busy enjoying the wonderful weather of the last few weeks and the most excited part has been that we sold our house!! It has been very interesting time but lots going on so I thought I would share some pictures from the last few weeks... We are so excited about our new house! It has everything that we were looking for and it is perfect for our families lifestyle. It is a brand new house that will be completed the first of October which was perfect timing. Here are a few shot of the house.

Lucas Oil Stadium

We got to tour the new home of the Indianapolis Colts this last weekend. It was soooo cool!! Games are going to be so much fun here. We are checking out the opening game this Sunday as the Colts have there first pre-season game at home!