Learning Grove Christmas Party 2011

Emmaleigh, Ansleigh, Gideon, Bradley, James, Joshua:

Bradley's friends at LG
John, Josh, Rachel, Jonathan, Audrey, Ellie, Natalie Kate
Rachel's friends at LG

Gideon and Bradley

Rachel and Bradley's homeschool group puts on a precious Christmas performance and celebration at the beginning of December. It was cute and sweet and both kids loved being part of it! After the performance, they had Christmas snacks and did some cute crafts. We love our homeschool group!

Merry Christmas!!

Santa Visit at Mall of GA

The Milligans had a GREAT Christmas this year! The kids all got lots of goodies and it was such an exciting month!

Homeschool Fashion

Sometimes we dress "inappropriately" for a traditional school, but at home, we can go shirtless and don't run the risk of distracting other students.

Our little "fashionista" loves to dress herself and combine summer/winter; solids and patterns. She also loves wearing a cute shoe and lots of accessories. Hey, whatever...we can control the temps in the bonus room.

Our homeschool fashions vary from day to day. They are absolutely 100% whatever we feel like putting on. After all, most of the time we're not even leaving the house. Yet another perk to homeschooling... :)

11 Years!

Our "mature" couple picture from church directory pics.

Actually, Nick and I have been together for 16 years! We dated for 5 and have been married, today, for 11 years! Those years have been filled with lots of happiness, lots of love, lots of new and exciting things and a whole lot of maturing! I love my sweet husband more today then I did when we first got married. We have been blessed so much with a beautiful family, a beautiful home, precious extended family, good health, precious friends, a loving church family, sweet pets and so many fun times!! If our next 11 years are as awesome as our first 11, then we have everything to look forward to.

I love you Nick Milligan, you sweet, handsome man!!

Happy 11th Anniversary!

Thank you for asking me to be your wife...it is truly an honor and a privilege!

Brush your teeth!

We tried to brush the "plaque" off the egg

Look at our beautiful smiles!!!

My kids love the simple, yet fun, Science lessons and experiments that we do. The other day, we did a lesson about teeth and how if we don't brush and floss, they are like a hardboiled egg that is soaked in coke. After we let the egg soak for 24 hours, we tried to brush the egg with toothpaste and an old toothbrush to see if we could get the "plaque" off. It was quite difficult to get off very much plaque. It was a really good experiment to help us remember the importance of brushing our teeth. All 3 kids loved trying to brush the egg too.

Happy Halloween- 2011!

Ready to trick-or-treat! First stop: Mr. John's house
Gooooooo Dawgs!!!
The cutest football player I've ever seen!

our brave hero- Spiderman!

our pretty little Pocahontas and her animal friend

And, that's the end! We have all the treats we need!

What a fun time we had trick or treating this year! Rachel was our lovely Pocahontas, complete with her raccoon friend, "Racky". Bradley changed (in the 11th hour) from Darth Vader to Spider Man and Trent also changed (in the seconds before we got in the car to go trick or treating) from an adorable lion to a UGA football player. (He loved carrying a football around all night!) We went to see our neighbor, John, who bought some great goodies for the kids, and then went to our traditional neighborhood up the road. We ended with a quick trick or treat at Gege and Papa's. We had given Nana and Pop a preview the day before when everyone wore the original costumes. (N&P- ya'll are the only ones who have pics of the lion and Darth!) The kids never seem to get tired of dressing up and had a really good time!

Olan Mills funnies

"My name is Bradley."
"I'm NOT making my nose squeak!"

Poor, sweet Bradley is the victim of the funniest photos from our Olan Mills session. We know how cute and handsome our boy is, but sometimes it's hard to capture that in a photograph. In Bradley's defense, he was "picked" on the most by the photographer, who made Bradley's nose "squeak" (by way of a squeakie in the photog's pocket) each time he touched his nose. The photog also could NOT remember his name and kept calling Bradley, "Benjamin". So, there was one point where Bradley had had enough and the picture reflects it. We love our precious, good looking, sweet boy!