Laramie Trip - Part 3

On Thursday, July 2, we spent the day hanging out at the house with the family, and then we were joined by Cameron's parents, and my sister's in-laws for a barbeque. It was a fun day spent just catching up with everyone, and of course Cameron's dad, Steve, was the photographer of the day and took some great shots (so picture overload coming up!!).

We love when Steve is around to take pictures...that's when we get awesome pictures like these...the next several pictures were just taken throughout the course of the day.

Miley and her cousin, Bode, loved hanging out in these two kid-sized chairs...

Miley exploring around in the backyard.

Our little family just hanging out.

Miley hanging out with her Grandma Clark.

We then had Steve take some more "posed" pictures of Miley and our family. We had to pull out the props at first to get Miley in the spirit of things...

Miley LOVES dogs, and it may be partly due to the fact that she got to spend some quality time with my sister's dog Dozer. She loved this little guy...I can't say that I think the feeling is mutual. :) In fact, Miley's first word, besides Mom and Dad is "doggy."

Miley definitely hammed it up for the camera!

My sister, Gelsey, and me. Our other sister, Lindsey, had to attend to her baby and such, so our sisters picture is definitely not complete!

My dad and his girls.

My mom and the girls.

I guess this is what raising three girls will do to you!!

And a picture of the my whole family, minus one brother-in-law, and Cameron's parents.

And a silly one just for fun (don't ask me how I got my eyes to do that...I am actually quite embarassed...it's totally creepy!)!

We had a great day, with great weather, yummy food, and the best company!

Bloggers Block

OK...so I have some new posts that I need to work on, but I kind of don't have the motivation to do them yet. Does this ever happen to any of you?? I promise I will get the last part of our trip, and some other recent, fun happenings up soon!

Laramie Trip - Part 2

My sister, Lindsey, and her baby, Lucy, got into Laramie on Monday night, June 29th. Her husband was driving with their other three kids from California, and would get in the next night. We spent the next few days hanging out around the house, playing outside, and just spending time together. Again, I apologize for the lack of pictures...I really need to work on taking more pictures when we are doing fun things.

Miley and my sister's oldest son, Jeremy. Miley thought all of her older cousins were pretty cool...Jeremy was either really into TV here, or not so excited about hanging out with his baby cousin. :) We think he was probably into the TV.

On Wednesday, I got to get my hair cut (WOO HOO!), and while I took a "Before" picture, I never got around to the "After" picture, so I won't post the before shot. It's not really all that different anyway...I am keeping my hair long this time, so it was really more of a trim. :)

Cameron and I also got to go visit his friend, Chase, who is now a fire fighter in Laramie. Cameron and Chase worked together at a car dealership in college, and became really good friends, so we make sure to see him every time we are in town.

Miley checking out the fire truck.

She thought it was pretty cool!

Cameron, Miley, and Chase

Our little family in front of the fire truck.

We had to take a picture to show the size of the tire next to Miley!

The next day we got lots of pictures because we saw Cameron's parents...I am still trying to get those pictures, so I will save that for another post. :)

Laramie Trip - Part 1

For the past couple of weeks, we went back home to Laramie, Wyoming for a Polson family reunion of sorts. It wasn't anything formal, but it was the first time my whole family has been together since my sister got married in June of 2007. AND there have been three new babies born since then (which is kind of a big deal, since that doubled that amount of grandkids for my parents!), so it was fun to get to see everybody all together again.

Cameron, Miley and I drove the 950 miles from Maple Grove to Laramie. Kind of crazy if you ask me, but whatever. Anyway, we left on June 25th after Cameron took off from work a little early (at about 4:00 pm) and planned to drive the whole way that night, with the hopes that Miley would sleep the whole time. Well, the trip didn't go exactly as planned. We got stuck in Minneapolis traffic for about an hour to start things off. Then, Miley didn't end up falling asleep till about 10:00 (and this is a girl who is usually asleep at 7:00 or 7:30). That is pretty much how the rest of the trip went for her sleeping-wise. I think she ended up only getting about 5 hours of sleep the whole time, so our great idea wasn't so great after all.

Anyway, we are trucking along making pretty good time, then we hit the most ridiculous rainstorm EVER in Nebraska. We were driving INTO the thing, and it lasted about 3 hours...it was raining so hard that we were having to go about 50 mph at times. So anyway, we thought we would get to Laramie at about 4:00 in the morning, but we ended up rolling in at about 5:30.

On top of all of this, Miley had just gotten her 1-year shots two days before leaving and got a fever the day we left that lasted about 3 or 4 days. Bummer. She ended up being kind of crabby for the majority of the trip, and this was probably part of the reason.

We got there on my birthday, so we got to celebrate my birthday with everyone who was there, which was fun! I don't have any pictures from that on my camera, so hopefully I can snag some from my mom or sister one of these days. :) (I stole some pictures off of my sister's blog, so here are some of the birthday celebration!).

Miley and Bode were very entertained by the balloons Chili's gave them, which provided a lot of entertainment for all of us adults as well!!

Cameron doesn't understand us Polsons very well apparently, and therefore doesn't know that we NEVER have people sing to us on our birthdays in restaurants. He was busted...oh well...at least I got a free chocolate shake out of the deal!!

For the first few days, only one of my sisters, Gelsey, and her family were there. I apologize in advance, because I always take a LOT less pictures than I intend to on trips, so I don't have a lot, and I may be pulling some off of my sister's blogs when they put them up. :) We had a relaxing few days, and had fun letting our two kids, who are only 5 weeks, play together. I got a few pictures of them swimming together, but with the combination of my picture-taking-lameness, and Miley being a little cranky, these are the only pictures I have from the first few days.






Anyway, I will be adding more about the trip in the next few days, but I figured I better break it up into parts so it wasn't one long post...so until next time... :)

PS...I got some MORE pictures from my sister's blog again, so I am adding them here at the bottom because they are just too cute!

We're Baaacckk...

...but I am totally feeling too tired to do a real post right now. I promise...pictures will come soon. :)

One Year Stats

Miley had her one-year check up on the 23rd, and here are her latest stats:

Height - 27 inches (3-5th percentile)

Weight - 17 pounds, 1 ounce (3-5th percentile)

Well, at least she is proportional, right? :)

Fun To Be One!

One year ago we welcomed this little cutie into our family...


Today she is even cuter, which I didn't think was possible!


Today is Miley's first birthday, and I am always in awe over how much she has changed over the last year. She has brought so much to our family, and we can't even remember or imagine what life was like without her!

Miley is the sweetest little girl, always coming up to us and giving us kisses out of the blue, and always having a smile for us. She is little Miss Independent now that she is walking, and doesn't like to be held as much, so we cherish the moments that she will snuggle with us and let us hold her, even if it is just for a few minutes. She loves to say "Mama" and "Dada" and has a lot of other things on her mind, that we just can't quite understand yet.

Miley is a little social butterfly. She loves trying to keep up with all of her older cousins and friends, and can play for hours if we would let her. She even tries to give some of her friends her big open mouth kisses, and sometimes freaks them out a little bit. :)

She is full of personality and "spunk". She is a little firecracker who knows exactly what she wants, and when she wants it and does not give up easily. This will probably cause us some trouble in the next year, but for now we love her little feisty personailty.

We feel so lucky to be the parents of this little girl, and know that she is going to bring us lots of laughs, tears, happiness, and love over the course of her life.

We love you, Miley Elizabeth, and happy first birthday! It is fun to be one, so run around, play hard, and keep being you!!