The pooper!

Days 7 & 8...so

It feels like Avery has grown up the past couple of months. Its kind of a bitter sweet thing, but she is out of the baby stage and is a full blown toddler. We went to church today and as I was driving home I honestly felt like I had just ran a marathon today. I found myself chasing her up the podium during the service, chasing her as she was heading to the boys bathroom and chasing her as she started playing the piano during Sunday school. I cannot express how BUSY this girl is! I kind of think she might be a boy?

These are a couple of things she is up too...

She loves sticking her hands in the toilet water, and has figured out how to open the lid

Sometimes she pretends she is a thug

She has a friend named Carmyn who could be her twin sister

She likes her mama (she told me)

Anytime you turn your back on her she WILL make a mess

She is learning how to feed herself

And she loves the buff

She is money!

Oops

Day 4,5 and 6

So maybe I bit off more than I can chew with this whole blogging everyday thing. I do have an excuse though. Travis is out of town and he took the lap top. It has all of our pictures on it. He was going to post some cute pictures of Avery, but dropped the ball as well. I have this slow, nasty, old desk top computer that I have been using, but I have zero patience, so that's why there haven't been blogs for the past 3 days. I'm sure nobody is really caring too much, but I feel like I committed to do something, and I failed.

So I will do a very vane and quick entry and Trav will be back tomorrow, so I can really get the things I want in there.

I'm a little embarrassed to admit, but I love Miley Cyrus

Something about Miley Cyrus just makes me like her. I love her music, I think she has an awesome personality ( like I know her personally :)), and her style is so flavorful! I kind of wish she was my friend in real life, that kind of sounds stockerish. She just seems so much more real than a lot of the other kid stars. I'm sure she is a skank, and has no morals in real life, but "Party in the USA" has rocked my world for months, and I'm still not tired of it, so I'm just going to keep on loving her.

The hot and sweaty match

Day 3

I had some technical difficulties for this day. I couldn't upload the cutest video of Avery, so that post will have to wait. Instead, I think I will give a brief (hopefully) synopsis on how the end of medical school works. We get this question all of the time, "what are you doing after you graduate?"

For people who have lots of anxieties (me), marrying a med student will definitely flare up those emotions. I never knew graduating and finding a residency program was such a big ordeal till now. Travis will graduate in May. Yes, he will technically be a doctor, but he will only be a resident. This means, crappy pay, crappy hours and the nurses get to walk all over him. He will be a resident for 3-4 years, fortunately, every year it gets better. His pay will go up, hours will go down and those nurses become less powerful..

He is in the process of interviewing for this beloved position. I will try to explain how getting a residency works. If you have been through this situation, or already understand it please don't call me on my BS, I'm explaining it the way I understand it. He has applied to several ER residency programs, and will interview at about 5 places. So far he's done the Tuscon interview, Joplin, MO, and now he's in Eerie, PA then heading to Madison Heights, Michigan and then in January will interview in the KC.

Instead of the typical interviewing and hiring, some wackos developed the "match program." So basically, after all the interviews are said and done, Travis will rank his favorite places. The places interviewing will also rank Travis and all those other med students. In February, all of this craziness goes into effect. Its kind of like a lottery, all the rankings will be entered into a magic computer system, and if by chance, the place you ranked the highest really likes you, and has ranked you high, you will match with that program and will be together for eternity (or just the 3-4 years.)

If for some reason, you aren't on the same page with those other programs, and you don't find a match, you aren't totally screwed. You have to scramble. Every program has a required amount of residencies to fill. If for some reason students don't pick their program then they also need to find students to fill it. So there are scrambling students and scrambling programs that will eventually find each other. Hearing the word "scramble" I just imagine a student at their computer finding out that they didn't match, and then start frantically waving their arms above their head going insane searching for a place. I've heard its not that horrible to scramble.

Another common question we get is, "where do you want to live." The honest answer for me is "I don't know." We for sure won't be back in Utah for awhile. I can't decide if I want to be safe and stay in the KC or if I'm the adventurous type and just pick up and start over? Both options are appealing and not so appealing.

Anyway, not the funnest post, but hopefully you learned something. This next year is going to be insane and exciting. If you have any questions, just Wikipedia it, those geniuses know everything!

Can't wait till February!

One Hot Turkey

Day 2

We are going all the way back to Thanksgiving for this one.

First of all... Coincidence or not

We booked our tickets to go to Phoenix for Thanksgiving. The next day Travis gets an email from the University of Arizona asking him to come for an interview for November 22ND, the exact date that we were already going to be in Arizona. Jigga what? Some may call it a coincidence but I call it destiny.

So we arrived in one piece. Flying with wiggly, no attention span Avery wasn't as bad as we thought it would be. But it wasn't that good either. I'll just say, its not the funnest thing in the world.

The cousin's got reacquainted real fast!

Look at the guilty looks on those stinky boys!

Avery loved this girl... I kind of did too.

Tam got in trouble (by Travis) for not wearing her bonnet.

We got to see Brayden's cute class play. "I is for Indian, we know them now by Native Americans." So PC... good job Brayden.

Then we got to eat in the cafeteria with Brayden. Of course we reminisced about the good old days of elementary school. I swear the cafeteria smells are the same.

Also, I think some of the upper classmen were making fun of what we were wearing. I'll cream them!

After that feast, we headed down to the preschool area and started on our second feast with Jack's class

So dang cute, I could eat 'em!

Their school was really fun. I do have to note that kids are gassy. Just walking down the halls, I could smell a plethora of toots from all the kids. If I was a teacher, I'd rip them all day long and just blame them on the kids.

A couple of days later, we made a real feast!

I promise my dad has a normal face... you wouldn't be able to tell in all of the pictures, but he really does.

Although breast milk tastes pretty good, I think Avery liked this year more than last year

I had to put this pic in so you all can see how awesome my brother in law is

Other honorable mentionable things we did were: watch Twilight, go see New Moon (can you tell who was running the show), swim in the freezing pools at the Marriott (we thought AZ was always warm), Turkey bowl, soccer games, parks, eating pie with Jon's huge family and of course all the family fun!

Thanks again for the nice trip. I think it is the Jolley's turn to come to the MO! We might not be here too much longer. More on that to come.

PS Trav's interview went really well.

The 12 days of blogging

Day one

Since today marks the first day of the 12 days of Christmas and I haven't even posted about Thanksgiving, I have decided to set a goal. I will blog one thing everyday. Even if I have absolutely nothing to talk about there will be a post. There are so many things running through my head, and so many experiences that I want to document, but then I don't because I'm always behind. I don't want to be a binge poster. I want to be consistent. So brace yourself for 12 days of Milli's mind... that or just ignore my blog till Christmas.

The Truth...

Since Trav is out of town and took the laptop, all of our pictures of Thanksgiving are with him, so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to talk about the movie New Moon! Don't act like you don't want to indulge in this conversation. As the title of this blog says, I'm going to be honest about my feelings. I hate to be this person, but I started reading the Twilight books years before the hype. When I told people what kind of books I was reading, they would just look at me and feel sorry for my husband. But then all of a sudden the craze hit, and I didn't look so silly after all.

As the books started to get more and more popular, I hid my true feelings and would only express my deep love for Twilight to close friends and family members. I didn't want to be one of those "bandwagon freaks." I was an original freak. So to rebel against the "BWF's," I laid off my true excitement when the movies started coming out. Can I just admit though, that I was SO excited when the New Moon movie came out.

This was by far my favorite book of the series... lets be honest, Stephanie got a little carried away near the end of the series, and in my opinion "Breaking Dawn" should have been called "Break my eye sockets so I can't read this nonsense." Sorry, that's another post for another day, back to New Moon. Most opinions out there say that New Moon was their least favorite book because Edward wasn't in most of it and because it was slow. I think the reason I loved it so much is because Stephanie, although I don't think she is the best writer in the world, did a great job illustrating the pain of losing someone. If anyone has ever experienced losing someone through a death, a break up, or a move or something, I think they could identify with this book. At least I did for one point in my life, I know that is why this book made such an impression on me. It brought back those sad feelings and in one point of the movie, I'm a little embarrassed to admit, I got a little choked up. Wow, I can't believe I really admitted that, good thing my blog is private now. Now that I'm on a roll, I'll just say that New Moon (the book) was a really emotional and almost beautiful story. I loved the whole idea of having such a perfect love end not because they fell out of love, but because one person had to protect the other. I loved how Bella had to cope with the loss and the things she did to get back to a normal life and how Jacob was there to help her.

Reading the books, I was all about Edward. Jacob didn't make the cut. But when I saw the movie, I kept finding myself rooting for Jacob. Obviously Jacob is smokin' and has a hot bod and all of that, but Edward was so lame! I'll admit, when I found out who was playing Edward, I wasn't too excited. But he actually proved me wrong when I saw Twilight, and I was willing to accept him. In New Moon, I don't know if it was the pasty makeup or the weird contact lenses; he was nasty looking to me. OK and its not all about looks either, his personality was so blase'! I found myself wanting Bella and Jacob to get it on in her house, but stupid Edward had to call and ruin everything.

So now I'm at a loss. I don't feel loyal to Edward at all anymore, when at one point in my life he was the man... besides Travis of course... luv ya babe! In conclusion, I'm going back into my dormant Twilight lifestyle. I will act like its not that cool that Eclipse is coming out in June, I will secretly tivo all of the interviews on TV (especially the ones with Jacob), and I will act really annoyed when Breaking Dawn comes out, but that one probably won't be an act. It has felt really good to get this off my chest. For the two viewers besides my mom that actually read this blog, thanks for enduring this cliche post!

Halloween... finally!

 Halloween was so much better this year
than last year. I was kind of like a deer in a headlight last year!

Our neighborhood had the annual FHE Halloween progressive dinner.

We went as the lion, scarecrow and tin man

Since Sid and Tam were here, we roped them into the theme... not that it was very hard! (ps Sid is the wizard of oz)

They will make very cute cubs one day

A couple people saw her in the corner of their eye and honestly thought she was a real dog

Here is the rest of our crazy neighborhood

They did another Bible story this year... Noah's Ark

The crowd went wild!

This was the actual Halloween night

Before

After

And also, no one ever told me that its really the parents who score on Halloween night... so much candy!!!

Hope ya'll had a great one!