Gwen's 9 month pictures!

As promised, I finally scanned the images in and posted them! We didn't buy the CD this time because it was super expensive at FLASH Digital Studios, but the pics were great and like I said, we can just scan them in! We don't have as many to send this time either, but we will be sending out some soon :)

She didn't smile as much this time actually. We didn't really have time to be goofy with her after her little nap before the pics were taken...it was like, you got 30 mins, GO! So, Gwen was in "wake up/confusion" mode during this shoot but the pics we did get ended up being pretty good anyways. Even though it was Feb. 21st, we decided to go with the Spring themes and I think that was a great idea. Enjoy!!

It's been a while, I know!

Hello!
Yes, it has been a while. This past week was very odd/sad/annoying and I have not had the want to blog about much. But, that being said, I should probably inform anyone who does not already know...I got laid off this past Wed. Out of the blue and really shocking to me and the other woman they laid off as well. Just got promoted at the end of Jan! The company laid off 30% of it's team world wide because of the economy. This came to a huge shock to everyone and puts us in a bit of a predicament. But, hey, what can you do. Complain about it too much and you hold yourself down, ignore it and you don't get the release and great feeling from screaming about it!

SO, my screaming is done, lol and now I must move on and find something new. I am filing for unemployment, I get a 2 week severence (yea, thanks huh), daycare is giving us the difference of our money back b/c we had paid fulltime pay until May and we are switching to part time pay until May which is very nice of them. Gwen will still go to daycare for 2 days a week so she can socialize and I can go to any interviews I may have. I have insurance until end of April. I think then, depending on the job situation, we will be putting Gwen on some type of insurance, but not ourselves. Risky, but she is what matters.

I do have a few leads from jobs right now, but nothing solid. Honestly I don't mind looking for jobs, it is something I have usually been fairly good at and one of the reasons I actually took the job as a recruiter, to help those people who are not good at finding jobs themselves, get them!

I am selling Mary Kay - it WAS a second job, lol, but now it is a little more of a focus when not looking for something more fulltime. It is going pretty well so that is good. I do have a website so if anyone wants to purchase anything, check out www.marykay.com/stefmiller

I will update again tonight with Gwen's 9 mth pics and a few other fun things. Enjoy!

Some recent fun things :)

Gwen's first Swimming lesson! Daddy was at a comic book convention so Gwen and I went to her first swimming lesson this past Sat. She LOVED it. Next Sat. we will have better pics of her actually DOING the stuff, but here are a few of her wearing her suit standing in the locker room and then some after she went swimming and she was sitting in her towel on the floor. She did so much though, kicked, blew bubbles, went down the slide, played with the ball and the ducky, "jumped" off the side OH, and she even put her own face in the water 4 times, no joke!!! They do some really cute stuff like singing with them and doing the actions of the songs in the water with them. fun :)




The new way Gwen holds her bottle...one handed. She is so funny, no matter what the size she usually tries to use one hand to hold it...like she is too busy for 2 hands, lol.



She has gotten a hang of the sippy cup now. She actually gets that you need to hold it up and tip it back...she only kinda understands how to suck on the sippy nozzle, but hey, she is doing really good with it.



The next 4 images were of out triple date on Valentine's Day out to lunch at Charlie's Steak House and to the Book Barn. Just some cute ones :)






Gwen's most recent piece of art work from daycare...I SWEAR you can see a flower and leaves, CRAZY!!!



So Gwen's daycare has decided to make March the month of fun so each day they have a suggestion of a theme for the kids to wear. I will try and take a picture of each of the days that she participates, but I can't guarantee anything. How fun though!!