What do you do 4 days before Christmas???

All smiles--all fun!

Before mud got in some eyes.

You can tell who was dominating this mud fight.

Poor Trenty--with mud in his eye and his first hosedown...he was very unhappy here.


Bradley--with his first chunk of mud in his eye...he was very upset here.

Before the mud in his eye, Brad was happy to toss some at Rach.

still having fun...

Rach...at the end...still looking better than her brothers and NO mud in her eyes.

Guess who threw the mud in her brother's eyes???!!!

If the weather's been rainy, warm and humid, you head outside to walk around in your rain boots to stomp in puddles ....... at least, that was the PLAN. However, the kids found a small muddy area and decided to throw mud at each other. They thought it was a blast for awhile. Until Bradley and Trent got some thrown in their eyes. Then it was tears and wails and screams when they had to get hosed off before going in to get a warm bath. They said it was worth it, even if they had to be hosed off in December.

Farewell 2011!

Fun in the snow!
this snow was thick and slick and stuck around for several days!

Trenty poo turned 2!!

Our sweet family on Easter

Rachel turned 7!

Trent was ready to use the potty!!

We had a GREAT time at PCBeach with gege and papa!!

We had a wonderful garden that gave us more veggies than we even knew what to do with!!

Bradley turned 5!

We swam LOTS with our friends all summer!!

Trenty got a new big boy bed!!

Rachel and Bradley started their year again at Learning Grove.

We have experienced our best homeschooling year yet!!

We carved pumpkins for Halloween!

We had a wonderful Christmas with our precious family!!!

2011 was filled with lots of happy memories--the happiest of which was Nick getting a job at Foundation Technologies. We are also very thankful for our good health, physical abilities and the many precious friends and family that we are surrounded by! We're praying that 2012 is full of even more happy memories and good health!

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.