What We’ve Been Up To In The Last 6 Years

Well, as you saw from my most recent post, we had a baby. We are now a family of 3. Toby is going to be 2 years old on May 1st and he is a feral child. He has so many people loving him and looking out for him that he just decides to jump. And if he falls, one of us will most likely catch him. We also started new jobs at a new bank and a new hospital, which required us to move. For awhile, we rented a house and my mother-in-law, Rita moved in with us. She helped me out for over two and a half years before she passed away. Almost a year after her death, we bought a house half a block away from the house we rented with her. It’s a beautiful home and I know she would have loved it.  We also got a puppy. A wild, crazy pug who is not the lap dog we were hoping for, but eventually her puppy energy has to run out, right?  Right?!?  Her name is Luna and she’s a silver/black  color. We’ve had lots of ups and downs, lots of changes, and lots of adventures. There will be a lot of pictures to post because we definitely take a lot of pictures. At the moment, all of us are stuck at home because of a little thing called social distancing. Thanks to the coronavirus, we are getting plenty of family time in our new home.  So, enough of the quick recap...let’s get to some pictures.

A Couple Years Ago...

We had a baby boy. He’s our third child, Tobias Wolfgang Milligan. He was born at 1am on May 1, 2018.  He weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces. My smallest baby. Now he’s less than 2 months away from being 2 years old and I’m going to try my best to play catch up on this blog. We’ll see. It’s been too many years, but I like having a space for our pictures and our adventures.

Our Outer Banks Vacation August 2014

We're having computer difficulties again...so things are VERY slow-moving.  This post took over an hour to download pictures and text.  These are a few pics from our vacation.  We spent it in Avon this year.  The only complaint was the mosquitoes.  Other than that, it was beautifully secluded and we spent every day at the beach. 

 

Crab hunting at night.

Norrin got badly sunburned, so Todd picked up some colorful sunblock for his face.

Lots of water gun fights in the hot, humid weather.

Whoever said you never get a lot of pictures of your second child never met this little cutie.

Ocracoke Island

Ani's first bikini- God help me.

Norrin had no fear of the ocean and had good instincts about the waves/how far he could go/how much he could take, so I held my breath, closed my eyes and let him be the brave, adventurous boy he's meant to be.

It helped when Grandmom would be adventurous with him though :).

Ani Rose loved it when Grandmom took her out deep.

It was a wonderful vacation.

JULY 26, 2014- CAPE MAY, NJ

On one of the rare Saturdays that Todd has off, we made a last minute decision to go to Cape May for the day.  We should have dragged the kids out of bed at 6am and gotten on the road by 7, but we maintained a leisurely pace and didn't get going until maybe 10am.  As a result, we ran into traffic.  Then, we were on the main beach for about 45 minutes before it really started raining.  Never ones to just give up, we took the kids to the arcade, then out for lunch.  It stopped raining and Ani fell asleep in the car as we drove down to Cape May Point- a rocky beach that never seems to be very crowded and has a nice mini-golf course.  As she napped in the car, the clouds started to clear and the sun came out.  Cape May Point has almost no waves, so Norrin was happy to go in (he has a love/hate relationship with waves these days) and Ani Rose was in heaven playing in the water with her two favorite guys.  We went into town to walk around and have dinner.  We didn't leave until 9:30pm and, despite the rough start, it was a truly perfect day.  There's about 500 pictures showing what a lovely time we had, but I was able to narrow it down a bit. 

As soon as the sun came out, I was a little OCD with the sunblock. 

Necessary goofy golf pose.

Looking for fish in the water.

We must have spent 30 minutes at this one hole.  You purposely put your ball down a waterfall.  The kids loved it.

Ani Rose is firmly planted in her "I'll do it myself" phase.