Saturday, October 22, 2011

June 2011

Miller's second birthday was June 29, 2011. We had a Sesame Street party for him on June 25, 2011. Miller loved the theme because Elmo is his FAVORITE! Uncle Austin went all out for his Oscar the Grouch costume, and Mommy and Daddy continued their tradition of not appearing in pictures. It's really become evident as I've gone through these older pictures.

Uncle Austin AKA Oscar the Grouch
Miller, eating his birthday lunch.
Miller's gifts - Let's admit it. The kid is spoiled! ;-)
Austin and Mary Alice got him this dry erase/chalk board with the birthday message.
His Sesame Street balloon.
The birthday boy in his chair, as Uncle Austin and Pops keep an eye on him.
One of his favorite gifts of the day, his Cars suitcase. He proceeded to walk all around the house with this for the rest of the day.
His Elmo pinata.
Miller and Granny Chris.
Loving on his Uncle Austin.
Miller, with Uncle Austin and Mary Alice.
Hanging out with Mommy, loving on each other the day after the party.
Such a sweet little guy - can't believe he's two already!

Saturday, October 1, 2011

May 2011

We had a lot going on in the month of May around the Vrana household. Two major events, actually. Paw-paw passed away this month, and we found out baby Vrana #2 was on the way!

We were blessed to have so many friends and family drop everything to come be with us in the days leading up to the funeral. Many thanks to the Hargraves and Casas families for helping out as mush as you did. We love you guys!

Here's some pictures from Mimi's house following the funeral:







We've got great friends. Besides the Casas's, Will and Eddie drove over from Texas for the funeral. While here, Will showed Austin a little love. Weirdos...

Miller likes his new shirt.

Fun times on Memorial Day weekend. Eddie, pouring hydrogen peroxide in Austin's ear. Again, weirdos.

Daddy was the crawfish chef for the weekend, but Miller's already interested in helping out.
Miller and McKason had lots of fun in the water.
Swimming with Uncle Austin and Mary Alice.
It was awful bright out there that day.
Miller pulled every single thing in the living room up on the couch with him while he was hanging out with Daddy.
Videos! Miller jumping to Uncle Austin in the pool. Uncle Austin dunking Miller in the inflatable pool. Finally, a video of Daddy trying to get Miller to say "Gig 'Em Aggies." Speaking of the Aggies, this will probably be the last post of the day. I've got to watch the final four minutes of a very tight game with Arkansas. Gig 'Em Aggies!

April 2011

Oh my goodness, this could just be craziness. I may just get multiple posts done today. Nonna won't know what to do with herself. :-P April was a pretty busy month for us, and that's why this post is so long. We made a trip to south Louisiana to visit Toby and Ann. Then, we had a trip over to Bryan, Texas to see the Casas family. Finally, we had Easter, always fun!

Unfortunately, on the way down to visit Toby and Ann, Miller work up half way and threw up in his car seat. We weren't sure what was going on with him because he woke up from a dead sleep. There's nothing like pulling into a gas station to clean out your car. It made it even better because we had just bought Mimi and Paw-paw's car from them, and John was super upset that his new car had just been "christened" that way. Miller ended up running a fever, so we spent our first morning at the doctor's office. We got him started on some antibiotics, but the poor baby was feeling pretty rough most of Saturday.

Here he is riding with Daddy on the 4-wheeler, helping Uncle Toby get his fence ready for his deer.

He loved cuddling with Aunt Ann this weekend. He was stripped down to his diaper most of the time because of the fever, and he pretty much kept his Blankie with him.

This NEVER happens, it just goes to show that the little guy didn't feel well. He fell asleep on Aunt Ann. I'm pretty sure Sesame Street was even on the TV. Sweet little guy.
By Sunday, Miller was ready to go again, and back to being the wild man we were used to seeing. A couple of weeks later we were off to Bryan, to visit the Casas family. Aunt Amy's the best. She was swinging with both McKason and Miller in her lap, no easy task.


Well, could he?

Then, we had Easter weekend. Mommy had to get her hair done, so I asked Daddy to bring Miller down to Nonna and Pops's house afterwards to hunt Easter eggs. You can see Daddy dressed him appropriately.

Elmo Easter egg hunting.

Checking out all his goodies with Uncle Austin.

Afterwards, Miller was doing some carpenter bee hunting - with both hands!

Dying Easter eggs.

Why wait for Mommy to pull them out, when you can reach right in and get them yourself?

Collecting his eggs.

How many grown man does it take to fly a kite?

Miller, preparing for the water balloon fight.

He got a cupcake!

Trying to share his cupcake.

I guess he decided to keep it for himself after all.

This is what we do for Easter, sit around playing Killer, which really looks a lot like sitting around staring at each other and occasionally winking.


Always a good time on Easter weekend!

Finally, here's a hilarious video of McKade, Aunt Amy, McKason, and Miller. Of course you can hear Mommy laughing throughout. I'm sure Aunt Amy will be so happy to see this video make it to the blog.

March 2011

The really difficult thing about trying to catch up with blogs, is that you rarely remember what was going on almost seven months ago. Seven months! Wow, I can't believe I've let us get so far behind. I'm trying to multi-task today. Watch the A&M game, and get some blogs posted at the same time.
March was the month that Miller got his first haircut! So, that's what most of these pictures are about. Here he is pre-haircut. Our poor baby looked like a balding man with a comb-over. He still needed some hair to grow to fill in the sparse spots, but the rest of it was getting so long, we just had to get it cut.
He sat in Daddy's lap for the haircut, and he didn't throw a temper tantrum, but he didn't really like it either.
After his haircut, he got a sucker. I'm sure he thought this was, by far, the best part.
Miller's favorite pasttime is still riding his bike. He loves it! He wasn't too thrilled about not getting to ride too much during the scorching summer, but on St. Patrick's Day, he was still loving his bike rides.
Playing at the park is Miller's other favorite thing to do. So many slides, so little time!
This was Miller and Daddy, playing in the bubbles in the sink. He was so hilarious, we had to post a video about it too.
Finally, here's the bubble video, and a video of us brainwashing our child. We were already schooling him for football season. That should catch everybody up for March. Let's hope it's not another three months before I get something posted about April. :-)