Week One!

Week one of Project Life 2014 has begun! I received my Canon Selphy today! Definitely perfect timing.


(sorry for the poor quality picture)

I am going to attempt to print weekly (Sundays) so that I will not fall so far behind. I still have all of 2012/2013 to print. I will print those via Snapfish or something. As long as I can find a good deal.

I still need to upload my pics from my MacBook to SmugMug. I have over 6,000 so it is taking a very long time to transfer.

I have a lot of organizing and planning ahead of me for Project Life 2014 annnnd 2012/2013 which includes JJ's baby book.

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12.30.2013 - 21 Months & Trip to the ER

Baby boy has gotten croup. Second time this year :( We went to the ER around between 8-9a and JJ was discharged around 1pm. Per the doctor he will get worse before getting better.

I hate seeing him having a hard time breathing. He has a low grade fever as well.













Watching Mickey Mouse on his I touch while waiting for his saline treatment.

He was/is a trooper! Still smiling even while feeling so blah.



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38 Weeks + 2 Days & UPDATES

My 38 weeks appointment went really well. My blood pressure was fantastic and Oliver is doing great. We will find out this coming Thursday if I will be induced earlier or wait until the 7th.

Husband arrived on Sunday the 22nd. JJ loves his Daddy!

Christmas came and went! I cannot believe we are almost in 2014. Just a few more days.

Now time for pictures galore!







Taken after having dinner with family on the 22nd































12/23 - I love my boys.































12/25 - Christmas morning!



































































12/25 - Christmas evening!































12/26 - 38 week appointment & park visit.

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37 Weeks + 2 Days

I cannot believe Oliver will be here any day now! This photo was taken this past Thursday at exactly 37 weeks. I am not wearing my belly support tank so you can see my B belly.

I also had my OB appointment. I had an ultrasound and Obi is weighing in at 7lbs and measuring at 39 weeks. He is a big boy :) After my ultrasound I had to go through a NST (non-stress test). He is all good!!

He has been moving a lot and his movements are no joke. LOL! So exciting!! Soon we will be meeting our youngest son.

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36 Weeks + 2 Days

Oh my goodness! Next week will be full term week! I cannot believe that this pregnancy is nearing its end. Oliver Bruce Miller will grace us with his beautiful presence soon. I am looking forward to holding him in my arms and seeing JJ kiss his little brother. Hubby will be here in one week and we will have two weeks together as a family of three and then we will become a family of four. I feel so blessed.

Reach for the stars and beyond...

I am so motivated to get back into shape! When I lost 70lbs I was on the MediFast program. I believe I have blogged about it before. It definitely is a nice weight loss regime for those that are considered obese to morbidly obese. I was on the program with the supervision of my doctor. The only downfall to the program is that it is not long term. In-taking 900-1000 calories a day plus working out definitely helped me lose all the weight.

I am going to be a Mother of two boys and I want to be in the best shape of my life. MediFast this time around is not an option. One, it costs way too much money and two, I want long term results as opposed to something quick. This can be done by a whole lifestyle change. That is eating healthy and working out regularly.

I had a conversation with my cousin earlier today and she talked about how she wants to learn more about health and fitness, learn to lose weight the right way and then become a PE teacher. Our conversation reminded me to blog about what I want to do after I give birth to my second son. Health, fitness and weight loss will be a lifestyle change for me. My goal is to work towards a NPC Bikini competitors body but not compete. Well, if I am confident enough when I reach my goal then maybe I will compete. For now my goal is reach the healthy weight for my height and be fit. I want to see my boys grow up into the men they are destined to be.

I will share my journey on my blog/Instagram and my Facebook page for my blog. But I will not share on my personal Facebook page. I want to surprise my family that I can do this and will achieve my goal.

Hubby will also be helping me achieve my goal as well. We talked about working out together and getting fit together. Plus it will be awesome to have my husband be my accountability partner.

Instagram is a great social media for motivation. My favorite Fit Mamas are @jenaragon, @fitamysuzzane and @jengaleng. These three lovely women are Mothers, wives, career women and NPC Bikini competitors. They motivate me to reach for my goal. @jengaleng is definitely up there on my motivation list. We went to Jr. High and High School together. I have been following her journey on Instagram since day one. Mother of two, working mama, wife, and everything in between. She looks great and it motivates me to get to that point after I have Oliver.

I am excited to start my journey, but until then I will enjoy the rest of my pregnancy.

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JJ's picture with Santa 2013

JJ's FIRST whole sentence.

As I was reading JJ his bed time story I pointed to a picture of the moon and asked "JJ what is this?"

JJ said "it's the moon!"

I am one proud momma!!!

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Updates!

Where to begin?! Let me see...

I have created a YouTube channel and a new Twitter account - MommyMillerTime - for my blog. I will definitely start vlogging and tweeting updates. 2014 is the year where I will be putting my life out there for whoever is interested to see. I watch vlogs on YouTube and read blogs by other fellow mommies and they just put themselves out there to be criticized but it does not stop them from doing what they are doing. I need to work up the courage to do that and I will do it.

My blog will be pretty much about being a Mother to two boys, mommy/wife life, weight loss, Filofax'ing/Organizing, Project Life, grad school and everything in between! It is going to be fun all while raising a toddler and a newborn. I can do it!

I am now 35 weeks + 2 days! Oliver has dropped drastically. He is putting so much pressure on my bladder and last night I could not walk after getting up from laying down. It hurt to move. This pregnancy is definitely different than being pregnant with JJ. I have a feeling I may not make it to January 7th.

That is it for my current updates. I have my maternity photo shoot tomorrow with Next To Me Studios. Keep a look out for a post on that with the final photos!

Until next time...


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Christmas Card 2013

Stationery Card

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11.30.2013 - 20 Months!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Day and 34 weeks!









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33 Weeks TODAY!

Only 6 more weeks until the day I hold my youngest son! OH MY GOSH!!! I am now a Mommy of two boys. I cannot believe at how the time is just breezing on by. Everything is moving so fast now. We now have been in San Diego for six months. Our plans are starting to come together. The saying is true...everything must fall apart in order to fall into place.

My OB appointment went well today. My blood pressure is perfect and Obi's heart rate is perfect as well. Beating strong! I haven't gained weight these past two weeks. So I am still at 13lbs weight gain. Which is pretty darn good considering when I was pregnant with JJ I put on 50+ lbs. I am proud of myself for staying on top of my eating habits.

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Other news...

I have a lot to blog about...I have a new hobby. Actually, new hobbies. Made new friends and just enjoying life minus the negative people. It is amazing.

I will blog about my new hobbies in another post. Let me get to the negative people...

Ever since a friendship with a particular someone ended, everything has been going great! I guess our friendship was not meant to last and I am completely okay with that. At first I was wondering why this individual decided to make it a goal in their life to let our mutual friends know that I am a bad friend. Well, our mutual friends are still talking to me and I have not once discussed with them what went down. To me, whatever happened between this individual stays between us. I am not the type of person to make friends choose sides. That is soooo high school. We are adults for goodness sake and going around talking about what happened just so you can get people to side with you is ridiculous. I did text this person happy birthday on their special day...and lets just say the reply I received should have not surprised me at all. Apparently, I was talking behind this persons back, when I have PROOF that this person was talking about me (provided by one of our mutual friends). I never told this person that I had this proof. In all honestly I wanted to, but I also did not want to stoop down to this persons level. Better to be the bigger person and just walk away. I actually thought of this person on their special day and greeted a friendly HBD and pretty much got a high school drama response. My reply -- Kk. Take care :) -- Yes I actually put a happy face on there. Hahaha! I wish this person all the best in their life. I would never wish bad upon anyone.

Oops, I went on a rant. Sorry. Just had to get that off my chest. I am glad that the negative energy I was getting from this person is now no more. I am surrounding myself with positive vibes and everything has been fantastic.

Everything does happen for a reason. 2014 is going to be a fantastic year. I look forward to documenting it and living it with a happy heart and full of love! Bring it!

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11.15.2013 - 32 weeks + 1 day

7 more weeks to go and Obi will be here! I am excited and nervous at the same time. At least this time there is no waiting for my water to break. My c-section is scheduled for January 7th @ 7:30a.

I am glad he has his own day and will not share his birthday with Momma :)

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11.07.2013 - 31 Weeks!

I had my two week appointment today and it went well. Oliver's heart rate is great! And his size is where he should be at this time of the pregnancy.

As for me my blood pressure has risen to the 130s over high 80s which is not so bad considering with JJ I was already at the 140s/90s around this time.

I have an appointment next week for an ultrasound and will see what happens with my blood pressure this week then we will go from there per my OB.

My kick counts are fantastic. Obi has 10 movements in user 5 minutes.

My little munchkin was sooo sweet today and used my tummy as a pillow while we watched television.


Love this boy. He is going to be an amazing big brother to Obi.

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30 Weeks + 1 Day

Only 9 weeks to go and Oliver Bruce will grace us with his beautiful presence.

I have been feeling pretty good lately. Today we had brunch with auntie Alpha and auntie Junie then we visited Lola and chilled out for a bit.

I feel the pregnancy glow now. Hahaha. It's a little late in the pregnancy to feel it but I am glad I am feeling it.

Here are a few pics of JJ and me this morning before we left.

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29 Weeks TODAY!

In 10 weeks Obi will grace us with his presence! My c-section has been scheduled for January 7th at 7:30a. I cannot believe it is happening. We will have two boys!! Oh my goodness...it is all happening so fast and I am really excited.

I have been feeling down lately. It is a lot of things. I miss my husband. Period. He is not here when I need him the most and its getting so hard for me to sleep at night because I just think. I think about our future, what is happening now...being without him is killing me. He is in Oregon and missing so much during this pregnancy and JJ is growing up so fast. Some people think the choices we made are stupid without even knowing the our main reasons. We made our choices because it is to benefit us as a whole. It does not matter what people think anyway and it is none of their business.

Every thing will come together in time and they will see the sacrifices we made will have its rewards :)

xoxo

28 Weeks + 4 Days

I forgot to post the day I turned 28 weeks. Nothing much happened. I went in for my 1 hr GTT and then went straight to my appointment. Well, my OB had to leave for a delivery so I had my appt rescheduled to this coming Wednesday or is it Thursday? Ill have to check because I forgot already. Hahaha.

I've been feeling good. Obi is very active and makes my belly dance. I love the feeling of baby moving in my belly.

JJ is awesome. He is growing up beautifully and is so smart! I love him so much. He has been teething like crazy. His molars came out and he has more teeth coming as well.

I've been feeling bleh. I miss Josh and being a family together. My Mom and Dad have been a huge help but I am getting so annoyed by the old men in this house. They are so grumpy and it pisses me out. I give my Mother major props for putting up with them.

I have not really been talking to anyone really. Just my lovely mamas from my mama groups. I like it this way. I talk to a few friends once in a while. We all have busy lives and kids so I do not really push to hangout. I enjoy my time with my baby. Soon it will be spent with babies.

School is good. One more week and I will be done with my second grad class. Yippee!! They are really flying by.

That's it as far as updates go.

'Til next time!

xoxo

One down...

I have decided to let go of Twitter all together. First I will deactivate and MAYBE will start a new one in 2014. BUT I think I'll just rid of it for good. It is not worth the time and effort to tweet every single detail of my life or read everyone's detailed life.

Some things are meant to be kept to yourself. Plus I always feel like its a place for unnecessary direct indirect "name calling". I only really ever tweeted constantly with one cousin. Every now and then with others. There is always phone calls and texting. Hahaha.

Or maybe I will go back when I get my blog out there and just use it specifically for blog purposes.

Eh...I just know for now there is no more Twitter for me. Plus with a now very active 18 month old and another on the way...I feel it's time for me to really move on from that stuff. Tweeting constantly or have tweet moments of constant tweeting...I have better things to do and I'm not doing them.

Grant it, I do not work and currently have my parents helping me take care of JJ during this pregnancy but still Twitter is not the end all, be all.

When I am awake in the middle of the night these are the things I think about.

I am going to back to writing and will continue to blog. Writing is my passion...I am not the greatest and sometimes I suck at writing but that will not stop me from expressing myself and sharing my life with people.

So long Twitter! Farewell...

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A little hormotional...

I miss my husband so much. I am having one of those nights where I just need him to give me a hug and let me cry. Being away from your spouse is so hard.

Deployments are hard and long distance marriage is hard. I wish we could be together right now. I just need to be patient.

A lot has been going on in my head and I have been keeping busy with my little one, this pregnancy, grad school and I have acquired a new hobby. I will get into more detail about that in another blog post at another time.

I have also been thinking about getting back into journaling. I miss it. I stopped writing daily after I married my husband. I just didn't find the time anymore. I did write here and there and have various blogs. Luckily I created a few blogs and saved all the links to them. So our stories are written on the inter-web. I have been documenting everything from JJs birth to now. I have documented our engagement and our wedding. Facebook has all of our photos. So it's not like nothing hasn't been written down...just not in paper (in a while now).

I want to start writing again in 2014.

I have a lot planned out for next year and will do every single thing on my list/agenda. It is going to be an amazing year because my little family of three will be a little family of four. I will have my two boys and husband with me.
Hubby has been away from us since May. I need him with me. He is working so hard for us and I am so thankful to have such a supportive husband. He is my love, soulmate, he completes me and makes me a better person. He is the Father of my children and the one who holds the key to my heart.

What we have planned and what awaits for us in 2014 is going to be amazing. God has a plan for us and He is with us all the way. I have faith in Him and my husband.

This post is all over the place just like the thoughts in my head.

xoxo

27 Weeks!!

Hip hip hooray I am 27 weeks today!! Hello third trimester.

I have been experiencing crazy leg cramps at night. Frequent visits to the bathroom and fatigue. As far as appetite goes...I am always hungry!

Obi is doing somersaults now and major karate kicks/chops.
Here is my 27 week baby bump photo :)




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